Thousands, through their unbridled credulity, were persuaded that political hacks and charlatans were to lose their occupation under the reign of the new Order, and that our debauched politics were to be thoroughly purified by the lustration which it promised forthwith to perform.
Julian highlights the naivety of people who thought the new political order would purify politics.
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Its prizes are often rich and suddenly gained, and when they are sought through the forms of a law which compels a man to choose between an expensive and hazardous litigation and robbery, human nature is severely tried.
Was some miracle to be wrought through which the slave-masters were to be transfigured into negro apostles and devotees?
It may thus happen that a system of laws initiated by itinerant miners solely for the protection of their transient posessory interests, and carried through Congress at their behest by parliamentary roguery, may be permanently engrafted…
They cripple a great national industry and source of wealth, and insult the principles of American jurisprudence.
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