They prove that the people of the American States, speaking through their legislative assemblies, are not likely to select men to represent them in this august assembly who are lacking in high qualities either of intellect or of character.
Hoar emphasizes the high caliber of individuals chosen to represent the American people in the Senate.
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He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
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.
Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.
Judge Hoar strenuously insisted that the Judges of the newly created Circuit Courts of the United States should be made up of the best lawyers, without Senatorial dictation.
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