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He would undoubtedly have taken a very high place in the public and official life of his generation if he had found himself in accord with either of the great political parties.
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Hoar speculates on the political potential of Charles Francis Adams, suggesting he could have excelled if aligned with a major party.
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The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
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.
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.
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