George Julian: “Almost everybody was an Abolitionist, and nobody any longer made a business of swearing that he was not.”

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.

If it had been morally possible, I would have supported him gladly.

They cripple a great national industry and source of wealth, and insult the principles of American jurisprudence.

The feeling against him became perfectly relentless, as I distinctly remember it, and shared in it myself; but on referring to the message now, I am astonished at the comparative moderation of its tone, and the strength of its positions.