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Several of the Free Soilers, among which I was included, were unwilling to have the matter tried again without a distinct assurance that there should be no meddling with the judiciary.
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Hoar reveals the hesitance of Free Soilers regarding judicial reforms.
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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.
Judge Hoar never doubted that the service of a clean, able, upright Circuit Court, appointed without political influence, and entirely acceptable to the public, was well worth the sacrifice.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
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