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He stood like a rock when Ohio and the whole West seemed to be going against him, and when the statesmanship even of John Sherman was of the willow and not of the oak.
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Hoar admires Garfield's resilience in the face of political opposition during a critical time.
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But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
However any political antagonist might dislike him, every antagonist must respect him, and nobody could laugh at him.
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.
Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.
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