His eulogy on Calhoun, with whom in general he sympathized, was a masterpiece of eloquence, but his eulogy on Charles Sumner, which probably no other man in the South could have uttered without political death, was greater still.
Hoar praises the eloquence of a Southern politician's eulogies, highlighting the significance of one in particular.
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Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
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.
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