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He was a wise, pure, upright and able President, and an eloquent orator, capable of uttering great truths in a great way, and able to bring them home to the understanding and conviction of his countrymen.
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Hoar praises a President for his wisdom and oratory skills, highlighting his ability to connect with the public.
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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.
Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.
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.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
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