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Men were to be sold for the crime of being out of work.
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Hoar highlights the severe consequences of unemployment during the Reconstruction era.
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To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
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.
But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
Judge Hoar never doubted that the service of a clean, able, upright Circuit Court, appointed without political influence, and entirely acceptable to the public, was well worth the sacrifice.
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