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Perhaps, on the whole, the ablest of the colored men who served with me in Congress, although each of the gentlemen I have named deserves high commendation, was John R.
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Hoar reflects on the capabilities of John R. Lynch, a notable African American congressman during his time.
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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.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
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