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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