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Everything done by either must pass the ordeal of the Supreme Court, a majority of whose members then had no sympathy with a liberal interpretation of the National powers.
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Hoar points out the limitations imposed by the Supreme Court on governmental actions during his time.
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But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
Perhaps, taking him all together, the most brilliant man in Harvard in my time was John Felton.
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