The revolution so hopefully begun might have been arrested by half-way measures, promoting the slumber rather than the agitation of the truth, while the irritating nostrums of Buchanan Democracy, so necessary to display the abominations of slavery, would have been lost to us.
Julian argues that half-measures could have stifled the anti-slavery movement's momentum and clarity.
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