In the spring of this year the Republicans of Indiana, in their State convention, not only surrendered the policy of Congressional prohibition, and adopted the principle of popular sovereignty, but made opposition to the Lecompton Constitution the sole issue of the canvass.
Julian notes a pivotal shift in the Indiana Republican party's stance during their state convention.
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He carried his religion courageously into politics, and while arraigning slavery as the grand rebel, he also severely criticised the management of the war and the Border State policy of the President.
The system of agricultural serfdom called Land Monopoly, which is now putting on new forms of danger in the rapid multiplication of great estates and the purchase of vast bodies of lands by foreign capitalists, must be resisted as a still…
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 fate of the men involved in it seems like a perfect travesty of justice and fair play.
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