The whole power of the Administration, acting as the hired man of slavery, was ruthlessly employed for the purpose of spreading the curse over Kansas, and establishing it there as an irreversible fact; and all the departments of the Government now stood as a unit on the side of this devilish conspiracy.
Julian accuses the government of conspiring to entrench slavery in Kansas, portraying it as a moral failure.
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