So far as I have been able to exert any influence upon the history of my country during the long conflict now happily past, it has been in opposition to him, to the party to which he belonged, to the opinions which he held, I am sure, quite as zealously and conscientiously as I hold my own.
Hoar emphasizes his commitment to his beliefs while opposing Senator Harris and his party.
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But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
I believe that as time goes on, the great self-restraint of the American people in dealing with the momentous peril of 1877, and the constructive ability which created the simple but perfect mechanism of the Electoral Commission, will…
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
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