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In whatever assembly he was found he represented the solid sense of the meeting.
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Hoar notes that the individual consistently represented the common sense of any assembly he was part of.
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Nov 15, 2021
This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.
I am afraid they have of late yielded for a time to one strong temptation and missed an opportunity for still greater glory, that never will come back.
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.
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.
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