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I have read with satisfaction and admiration your exhaustive and conclusive argument in the Belknap impeachment case.
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Hoar expresses admiration for a detailed argument in a significant impeachment case, highlighting his respect for legal discourse.
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It would have been a worse civil war than that of the Rebellion, because the country would have been divided not by sections, but by 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.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
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.
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