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He has quarrelled with Grant and Wilson, and Colfax and Blaine, and Andrew, and Sumner, and the Washburnes, and Bingham, and Schenck, and Dawes, because he is quarrelsome.
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Hoar critiques General Butler's contentious relationships with prominent political figures.
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