George Julian: “But this treatment of the Abolitionists was manifestly unjust.”

He carried his religion courageously into politics, and while arraigning slavery as the grand rebel, he also severely criticised the management of the war and the Border State policy of the President.

The withdrawal of the slavery question from the strife of parties has changed the face of our politics as completely as did its introduction.

The system of agricultural serfdom called Land Monopoly, which is now putting on new forms of danger in the rapid multiplication of great estates and the purchase of vast bodies of lands by foreign capitalists, must be resisted as a still…

He hated slavery with the animosity of a regular Puritan, and when he talked about it everybody listened.