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The people of Massachusetts were never an office-seeking people.
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Hoar notes the character of the people of Massachusetts, emphasizing their lack of desire for office-seeking.
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One of the virtues of General Sheridan was that he knew when to act without orders.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
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