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They were to determine the civil and political condition of more than five million people just set free from slavery.
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Hoar reflects on the responsibility of determining the status of newly freed individuals after slavery.
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When the treaty was signed, the struggle began between freedom and slavery for the control of this imperial domain.
He would undoubtedly have taken a very high place in the public and official life of his generation if he had found himself in accord with either of the great political parties.
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.
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.
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