On the record
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.
Source
gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “It is not a mistake merely, but a great misfortune, that our laws touching so delicate and vital a question as the…”
Editor's note · Context
Julian critiques the inadequacies of laws governing mineral land ownership, highlighting their severe consequences.
Share
More from George Julian
No sophistry could disguise this fact, nor could its significance be overstated.
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.
Come ye who, whatever betide her, To Freedom have sworn to be true, Prime up with a cup of hard cider, And drink to old Tippecanoe.
He was the most conspicuous public rascal of his time, but was far from being alone in his odious notoriety.
Other voices in this conversation
