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I have very little respect for the Americanism that is not moved and stirred by such a story.
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Hoar critiques a form of Americanism that lacks emotional depth and connection to personal stories.
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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.
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.
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, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
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