My warfare against chattel slavery and the monopoly of the soil had assumed the duty of the Government to secure fair play and equal opportunities to the laboring masses, and I was willing to embody that idea in a specific legislative proposition, and thus invite its discussion and the settlement of it upon its merits.
Julian articulates his commitment to fighting against slavery and advocating for equitable opportunities for laborers through legislative action.
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The people took the work of politics into their own keeping, and the leaders became followers.
They seemed totally unconscious of the fact that human nature is essentially the same in all parties, and that a mere change of men without any change of system would be fruitless.
It was hollow and false, and the best men in the party felt it.
The efforts to belittle his merits and defile his good name became systematic, and degenerated into the most unpardonable personal abuse and political defamation.
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