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I got up the first contribution for the Free Public Library, of which I was made President.
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Hoar highlights his role in establishing the Free Public Library and his position as President.
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I am afraid they have of late yielded for a time to one strong temptation and missed an opportunity for still greater glory, that never will come back.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.
But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
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