The circumstances of his death made it peculiarly touching and sacramental, and I was inexpressibly glad that I had fought his battle so unflinchingly, and defended him everywhere against his conscienceless assailants.
Julian expresses his satisfaction in having defended a political figure against his critics, especially in light of the circumstances of that figure's death.
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They scourge the mining States and Territories with the unspeakable curse of uncertainty of land titles, as everywhere attested by incurable litigation and strife.
It rallied the Whig masses like a grand battle-cry.
They seemed totally unconscious of the fact that human nature is essentially the same in all parties, and that a mere change of men without any change of system would be fruitless.
But this treatment of the Abolitionists was manifestly unjust.
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