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The country, loaded down by a great and continually increasing war debt, could not afford to turn away from so tempting a source of revenue.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “The country, loaded down by a great and continually increasing war debt, could not afford to turn away from so tempting…”
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Julian highlights the financial implications of ignoring land resources during a time of war debt.
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But this treatment of the Abolitionists was manifestly unjust.
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