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The large majority was made up of sensible, strong-headed country farmers, rather slow in making up their minds, but making them up always on considerations of what was best for the Commonwealth.
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Hoar describes the character of the majority of the Massachusetts House members, emphasizing their practical approach to governance.
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His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
However any political antagonist might dislike him, every antagonist must respect him, and nobody could laugh at him.
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