The champions of negro emancipation had merely hoped to speed their grand cause a little by their faithful labors, and hand over to coming generations the glory of crowning it with success; but they now saw it triumphant, and they had abundant and unbounded cause to rejoice.
Julian acknowledges the triumph of the emancipation movement and the joy it brings to its advocates.
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But this treatment of the Abolitionists was manifestly unjust.
Was some miracle to be wrought through which the slave-masters were to be transfigured into negro apostles and devotees?
In the light of this fact alone, it is impossible to account for the perfectly unbounded and irrepressible enthusiasm which swept over the land during the campaign, and so signally routed the forces of Democracy.
It was unrecognized by both parties, but it made its advent, and the men who pointed its way quietly served notice upon the country of their ulterior purposes.
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