On the record
In my opinion this defeat accounts for the failure of the policy of reconstruction so far as it has failed.
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Hoar reflects on the consequences of the defeat of a particular policy during Reconstruction.
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But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
It relates to matters more permanent than human life.
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