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There were other very strong arguments on the same side, and I had the gratification of being assured by several Senators that my presentation of the case had convinced them.
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Hoar expresses satisfaction that several Senators were convinced by his presentation of the case.
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This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
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