He insulted every colored man in the State, when, in an unguarded moment, speaking from his very soul, he called out: 'Give me the skin that came off the nigger.' He insulted the citizen soldiers of Massachusetts when he declared that they needed but a word from him to clean out the State House.
Hoar denounces a statement made by a political figure as deeply insulting to various groups, emphasizing the need for respect in political rhetoric.
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