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He was the inveterate foe of oppression, and in his later years, opposed every compromise with slavery.
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Hoar highlights his lifelong opposition to oppression and slavery, emphasizing his moral convictions.
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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.
But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
You said the people of Lowell would not think very highly of me when they saw me riding through the streets in my carriage and knew it was paid for by the money of this bank.
His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
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