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Their organization four years before was neither untimely nor unnecessary, but belonged to the inevitable logic of a great and dominating idea.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “Their organization four years before was neither untimely nor unnecessary, but belonged to the inevitable logic of a…”
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Julian asserts that the formation of the Abolitionist movement was a necessary response to a significant moral issue.
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