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George Julian: “The rights of man are sacred, whether trampled down by Southern slave-drivers, the monopolists of the soil, the grinding…”

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The rights of man are sacred, whether trampled down by Southern slave-drivers, the monopolists of the soil, the grinding power of corporate wealth, the legalized robbery of a protective tariff, or the power of concentrated capital in alliance with labor-saving machinery.
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George Julian
Republican · Indiana

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Julian passionately defends the sacredness of human rights against various forms of oppression.

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