I wrote a letter to the people of Massachusetts in which I took up case by case each provision of the bill, and showed how important it was for the interest of commerce between the States, or with foreign countries, and how well it justified the moderate expenditure.
Hoar describes his efforts to communicate the importance of a bill to the people of Massachusetts, emphasizing its benefits for commerce.
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Judge Hoar strenuously insisted that the Judges of the newly created Circuit Courts of the United States should be made up of the best lawyers, without Senatorial dictation.
Perhaps, taking him all together, the most brilliant man in Harvard in my time was John Felton.
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.
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