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President Van Buren had dishonored his administration and defied the moral sense of the civilized world by his efforts to prostitute our foreign policy to the service of slavery and the slave trade.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “President Van Buren had dishonored his administration and defied the moral sense of the civilized world by his efforts…”
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Julian condemns President Van Buren for compromising U.S. foreign policy to support slavery, reflecting his strong anti-slavery stance.
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