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But McClellan was still king, and the country was a long way yet from that vigorous war policy which alone could save it.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “But McClellan was still king, and the country was a long way yet from that vigorous war policy which alone could save…”
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Julian reflects on the political climate during the Civil War, criticizing McClellan's leadership and the need for a more aggressive war policy.
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It is not a mistake merely, but a great misfortune, that our laws touching so delicate and vital a question as the ownership and transfer of mineral lands were not so framed as to avert these frightful evils.
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.
Moreover, men absorbed in a feverish and hazardous industry, and stimulated by the hope of sudden wealth, are not disposed to consider the advantages of permanent ownership and security of title.
The movement of 1840 was necessarily transient and provisional, while underneath its clatter and nonsense was a real issue.
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