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I still think the position of the Senate right, and that of the President wrong.
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Hoar asserts his belief that the Senate's position was correct and the President's was not.
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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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He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
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