In this impression I was fully confirmed later in the session, when he sorrowfully but manfully resisted the attempt of Senator Davis, his son-in-law, and other extreme men, to bully him into their measures, and avowed his sympathy with the anti-slavery sentiment of the country.
Julian reflects on a senator's struggle against pressure from extreme political factions while supporting anti-slavery sentiments.
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The movement of 1840 was necessarily transient and provisional, while underneath its clatter and nonsense was a real issue.
Moreover, men absorbed in a feverish and hazardous industry, and stimulated by the hope of sudden wealth, are not disposed to consider the advantages of permanent ownership and security of title.
The laws regulating the ownership and disposition of landed property not only affect the well-being but frequently the destiny of a people.
Such a state of affairs is worse than pestilence or famine; but the evil of uncertain titles puts on new and very aggravated forms in our gold-bearing regions.
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