If he had attained to the supreme object of his ambition and reached the goal of the Presidency, if his life had been spared to complete his term, it would have been a most honorable period, in my opinion, in the history of the country.
Hoar speculates on the potential impact of a political figure's presidency on the nation's history.
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I took a great interest in the founding of the famous Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and I was the first person named in its Act of Incorporation.
However any political antagonist might dislike him, every antagonist must respect him, and nobody could laugh at him.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
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