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The angers and influences of the Civil War had gradually cooled under the healing influence of Grant.
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Hoar notes the healing effects of President Grant on the nation post-Civil War, highlighting a shift in sentiment.
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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.
His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.
And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.
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.
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