These servants of the people, to whom was intrusted the welfare of the country, were utterly false and faithless, and allowed us to be precipitated, entirely unprepared, into a fratricidal war which cost the common country millions of lives and billions of treasure.
Woodhull condemns the leaders who failed to protect the nation from the Civil War, calling them unfaithful.
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