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I prepared a Constitutional amendment providing that the inauguration should take place on the last Thursday in April.
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Hoar reveals his proposal for a Constitutional amendment to change the inauguration date for better weather.
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Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
What was said helped to arouse public attention, and the masses of the people--always pure and incorruptible--set themselves earnestly and successfully to reform the abuses.
Edward Everett preached a sermon when he was twenty-four years old before a large audience in the Representatives Chamber at Washington which was heard with breathless silence.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
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