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George Julian: “Yet my conscience presses me on; let me but die upon the breach.”

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Yet my conscience presses me on; let me but die upon the breach.
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George Julian
Republican · Indiana

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Julian expresses a deep moral conviction to continue fighting against injustice, even at great personal cost.

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