This showed a marvelous anti-slavery progress, considering the age of the movement, the elements it forced into combination, and the difficulties under which it struggled into life; and no one could misinterpret its significance.
Julian highlights the significant anti-slavery progress made despite the challenges faced by the movement.
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Parched corn men can't stand it much longer, Enough is as much as we'll bear; With Tip at our head, in October, We'll tumble Van out of the chair.
But this treatment of the Abolitionists was manifestly unjust.
It rallied the Whig masses like a grand battle-cry.
It was a confession of Congressional incompetence to deal with a problem which Congress alone had the right to solve.
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