Whereas, if these things were reformed, the provisions and other commodities which we might have to export yearly, and which other governments are dependent upon us for, would procure us gold and silver abundantly sufficient for a medium of trade.
Hoar discusses the economic potential of reforming trade practices to benefit the colonies.
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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.
Perhaps, taking him all together, the most brilliant man in Harvard in my time was John Felton.
Edward Everett preached a sermon when he was twenty-four years old before a large audience in the Representatives Chamber at Washington which was heard with breathless silence.
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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