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Yet my conscience presses me on; let me but die upon the breach.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “Yet my conscience presses me on; let me but die upon the breach.”
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Julian expresses a deep moral conviction to continue fighting against injustice, even at great personal cost.
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He was unquestionably honest and patriotic, and the fact that he was a poor man, and a plain farmer of the West, could properly form no objection to his character or his fitness for the Presidency.
But as to slavery he seemed to have no conscience, regarding it as a matter of total moral indifference, and thus completely confounding the distinction between right and wrong.
It was hollow and false, and the best men in the party felt it.
They thus undermine the morals of the people, and pave the way for violence and crime.
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