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I was found with some difficulty and went in and made a brief speech which I ended by saying: "If I shall fail to satisfy you, the trust you have so freely conferred you can as freely recall.
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Hoar expresses his willingness to accept the consequences of his nomination and the trust placed in him by others.
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He would undoubtedly have taken a very high place in the public and official life of his generation if he had found himself in accord with either of the great political parties.
Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
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.
Edward Everett preached a sermon when he was twenty-four years old before a large audience in the Representatives Chamber at Washington which was heard with breathless silence.
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