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What was said helped to arouse public attention, and the masses of the people--always pure and incorruptible--set themselves earnestly and successfully to reform the abuses.
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Hoar emphasizes the importance of public engagement in reforming government abuses.
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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.
He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
However any political antagonist might dislike him, every antagonist must respect him, and nobody could laugh at him.
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