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We may well take pattern from them in some of the great virtues which make up the strength, as they make the glory, of Free States.
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Hoar suggests that the virtues of the Southern people can serve as a model for others in the pursuit of strength and glory in free states.
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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.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
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