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It will be the President's duty to maintain himself in office, and the duty of all good citizens to stand by him.
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Hoar calls on citizens to support the President in maintaining his office amidst political challenges.
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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.
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.
It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
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