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I do not believe he wold have been a tool or servant in the Presidency.
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Hoar expresses his belief that Garfield would not have been subservient as President.
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One of the virtues of General Sheridan was that he knew when to act without orders.
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.
He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
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