Channing had styled it, was the unalterable purpose and unquenchable desire of the slave-holding interest, and its accomplishment was to be secured by openly espousing the principle that the end justifies the means, and setting all consequences at defiance.
Julian critiques the slave-holding interest's justification of their actions, emphasizing moral implications.
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The tyranny of industrial domination, which borrows its life from the alliance of concentrated capital with labor-saving machinery, must be overthrown.
The withdrawal of the slavery question from the strife of parties has changed the face of our politics as completely as did its introduction.
The system of spoils and plunder must also be destroyed, in order that freedom itself may be rescued from the perilous activities quickened into life by its own spirit, and the conduct of public affairs inspired by the great moralities…
The case affords a strange commentary upon the principle of historic justice.
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