But I thought that address, which was not only to utter the voice of public sorrow, but to give a careful and discriminating sketch of the public life of its subject, ought to be delivered by some person who agreed with him in regard to the most important action of his life.
Hoar discusses the importance of delivering a eulogy that accurately reflects the subject's life and actions.
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It is utterly impossible for me to support the Buffalo nomination.
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.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
However any political antagonist might dislike him, every antagonist must respect him, and nobody could laugh at him.
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