My welcome to the State was made singularly cordial by the part I had played in Congress in opposing enormous schemes of land monopoly and plunder, which had been concocted by some of her own public servants in the interest of railway corporations and Indian rings.
Julian reflects on his positive reception in Kansas due to his anti-monopoly stance.
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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.
I not only meant that they should not be ashamed of it, but that, if possible, it should stand the test of criticism, both as to matter and diction.
It was completely at war with the genius and spirit of democratic government.
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.
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