I believe if every man of the North were to die, the new and chastened South, with the virtues it has cherished from the beginning, with its courage and its constancy, would take the country and bear it on to the achievement of its lofty destiny.
Hoar believes in the potential of the South to lead the nation towards a bright future.
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He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
I took a great interest in the founding of the famous Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and I was the first person named in its Act of Incorporation.
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.
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