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But almost every man in Massachusetts felt the Fugitive Slave Law as a personal dishonor.
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Hoar notes the personal impact of the Fugitive Slave Law on the people of Massachusetts.
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He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
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.
But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
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