I had no political sympathy with Senator Hill, still less with the claim often imputed to the Senate by writers of newspapers, but of which I have never seen the slightest evidence, that Senators have the right to dictate such appointments.
Hoar expresses his belief that Senators should not have the power to dictate judicial appointments, countering a common narrative.
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The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
It would have been a worse civil war than that of the Rebellion, because the country would have been divided not by sections, but by parties.
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