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The Whigs were in favor of using wisely, but courageously, the forces of the Nation and State to accomplish public objects for which private powers or municipal powers were inadequate.
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Hoar reflects on the Whig Party's approach to governance and public service.
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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.
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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