When such an attempt has been made it has been resisted, denounced and abandoned, and the English Constitutional authorities, without exception, are agreed that such a proceeding is unwarrantable, revolutionary and destructive of the English Constitution.
Hoar warns against the revolutionary nature of attaching legislation to financial bills, citing constitutional consensus.
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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.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
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