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Lincoln, their appeal from the ballot to the bullet was the logical result of their insane devotion to slavery, and their conviction that nothing could save it but the dismemberment of the Republic.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “Lincoln, their appeal from the ballot to the bullet was the logical result of their insane devotion to slavery, and…”
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Julian argues that the rebels' shift from democratic processes to violence stems from their obsession with preserving slavery, threatening the Republic.
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He was a man of undoubted bravery, and had made a most honorable record, both as a soldier and a civilian, upon ample trial in both capacities.
The efforts to belittle his merits and defile his good name became systematic, and degenerated into the most unpardonable personal abuse and political defamation.
It is not a mistake merely, but a great misfortune, that our laws touching so delicate and vital a question as the ownership and transfer of mineral lands were not so framed as to avert these frightful evils.
It was hollow and false, and the best men in the party felt it.
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