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A powerful anti-slavery party had at last appeared, as the slow creation of events and the fruit of patient toil and endeavor; but it had against it a popular majority of nearly a million.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “A powerful anti-slavery party had at last appeared, as the slow creation of events and the fruit of patient toil and…”
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Julian highlights the emergence of a significant anti-slavery party despite facing overwhelming opposition.
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Something more than empty promises and windy declamation was necessary, and that something, in an evil hour, was supplied by the Democrats themselves.
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