The sentiment of the country has passed, certainly so far as it is represented by a majority of the Senate, the stage, if it ever was in it, of a reckless seeking to accomplish the result of Chinese exclusion without regard to constitutional restraints, treaty obligations, or moral duties.
Hoar critiques the previous reckless approach to Chinese exclusion legislation, emphasizing the need for constitutional and moral considerations.
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He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
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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