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It is sought, by a mere superiority of numbers, for the first time, to thrust a Senator from the seat which he holds by virtue of the express and deliberate final judgment of the Senate.
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Hoar warns against the majority's attempt to remove a Senator, framing it as a violation of the Senate's judgment.
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He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
What was said helped to arouse public attention, and the masses of the people--always pure and incorruptible--set themselves earnestly and successfully to reform the abuses.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
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