I drew and had put in the platform of the Republican State Convention the following resolution: "The Republican Party ever has maintained and ever will maintain and defend, the common schools of Massachusetts as the very citadel of happiness.
Hoar recounts his role in establishing a resolution to protect Massachusetts' common schools.
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Edward Everett preached a sermon when he was twenty-four years old before a large audience in the Representatives Chamber at Washington which was heard with breathless silence.
However any political antagonist might dislike him, every antagonist must respect him, and nobody could laugh at him.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
Judge Hoar strenuously insisted that the Judges of the newly created Circuit Courts of the United States should be made up of the best lawyers, without Senatorial dictation.
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