Nothing could be more preposterous or insolent than the demand of a Senator from any State that a President just elected, who had received the support of the people of that State, should ostracize his own supporters.
Hoar condemns a senator's demand for the president to exclude his supporters from office as outrageous.
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He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
The large majority was made up of sensible, strong-headed country farmers, rather slow in making up their minds, but making them up always on considerations of what was best for the Commonwealth.
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.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
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