In conclusion, I said it did not become the political friends of the men who had burned our soldiers alive at Fort Pillow, or who burned orphan asylums in New York, and hung negroes on lamp posts, to talk of cruelties in a past age.
Hoar criticizes the hypocrisy of those who condemn past cruelties while ignoring their own.
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The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
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.
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