President, it is delightful to think how, during the lives of the men who took part in the great conflict which preceded and followed the Civil War and the greater conflict of the war itself, the old bitterness and estrangements are all gone.
Hoar expresses hope for reconciliation and the end of past animosities following the Civil War.
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One of the virtues of General Sheridan was that he knew when to act without orders.
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.
It is utterly impossible for me to support the Buffalo nomination.
And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.
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