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.
Hoar comments on the unheeded advice of a political reformer in New York City, highlighting regional differences in political engagement.
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The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
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