Beside all these things there has been during a large part of my public service, especially the part immediately following the Civil War, a battle to maintain the purity of elections and the purity of administration and government expenditure against corruption.
Hoar reflects on his commitment to upholding election integrity and government accountability during his public service.
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Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
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.
And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.
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