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So, much to the shame of our public authorities, the investigation was not pressed.
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Hoar criticizes public authorities for failing to pursue an investigation into Butler's actions, highlighting a failure of accountability.
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There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
When the treaty was signed, the struggle began between freedom and slavery for the control of this imperial domain.
He would undoubtedly have taken a very high place in the public and official life of his generation if he had found himself in accord with either of the great political parties.
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.
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