He was always regarded by the working people of Massachusetts as the type of what was best in themselves and as the example and representative of the great opportunity which the Republic holds out to its poorest citizens and their children.
Hoar highlights the respect and admiration this individual garnered from the working class.
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The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
Perhaps, taking him all together, the most brilliant man in Harvard in my time was John Felton.
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