Brave soldiers, honored Republicans, were turned out of post-offices, to be replaced by incompetent and dishonorable adventurers, odious in the neighborhoods from which they came, to please this ambitious and unscrupulous man.
Hoar expresses his discontent with the replacement of capable officials by unqualified individuals for political gain.
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The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
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