Their policy toward the colored people was simply the application to them of the principles applied to the whites, as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution of nearly every State in the Union.
Hoar emphasizes the application of foundational American principles to all citizens, regardless of race.
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Edward Everett preached a sermon when he was twenty-four years old before a large audience in the Representatives Chamber at Washington which was heard with breathless silence.
Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
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.
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