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Wade was now roused, and declared that he had heard McClellan say he had uniformly found the statements of these people reliable, and had got valuable information from them.
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Julian notes Wade's defense of the reliability of contrabands, emphasizing their importance in providing intelligence.
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It was completely at war with the genius and spirit of democratic government.
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It rallied the Whig masses like a grand battle-cry.
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