The statute book of Ireland was filled with enactments which furnish to the Roman Catholics but too good a ground for recriminating on us when we talk of the barbarities of Bonner and Gardiner; and the harshness of those odious laws was aggravated by a more odious administration.
Hoar critiques the oppressive laws and administration in Ireland that fueled resentment among Roman Catholics.
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Judge Hoar never doubted that the service of a clean, able, upright Circuit Court, appointed without political influence, and entirely acceptable to the public, was well worth the sacrifice.
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.
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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