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He prided himself on the fact that he never drew an indictment which was not sustained by the Court, if it were questioned.
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Hoar reflects on the integrity of a District Attorney who ensured that all indictments were legally sound.
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His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
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