George Julian: “The fate of the men involved in it seems like a perfect travesty of justice and fair play.”

The laws regulating the ownership and disposition of landed property not only affect the well-being but frequently the destiny of a people.

Its prizes are often rich and suddenly gained, and when they are sought through the forms of a law which compels a man to choose between an expensive and hazardous litigation and robbery, human nature is severely tried.

They thus undermine the morals of the people, and pave the way for violence and crime.

He was unquestionably honest and patriotic, and the fact that he was a poor man, and a plain farmer of the West, could properly form no objection to his character or his fitness for the Presidency.