George F. Hoar: “He was a very tolerant, friendly and considerate man, in dealing with men who differed from himself.”

He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.

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.

A complete system of education at the National charge was an essential element of the reconstruction policy.

When the treaty was signed, the struggle began between freedom and slavery for the control of this imperial domain.