George F. Hoar: “I advised Admiral Porter to hold on, and that I would send a force and make another attempt to take the place.”

It relates to matters more permanent than human life.

Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.

But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.

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.