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

The legalized robbery now carried on in the name of Protection to American labor must be overthrown.

The result is certain, since justice can not finally be defeated; but the circumstances of the struggle and the cost of its triumph are committed to the people, who can scarcely fail to find both instruction and warning in the story of the…

The withdrawal of the slavery question from the strife of parties has changed the face of our politics as completely as did its introduction.

The system of spoils and plunder must also be destroyed, in order that freedom itself may be rescued from the perilous activities quickened into life by its own spirit, and the conduct of public affairs inspired by the great moralities…