You could hardly take up a morning paper without dreading that you should read of the removal from some position of honor of some brave honest soldier who had deserved well of his country, and the substitution of some disreputable person in his place.
Hoar reflects on the political climate, expressing concern over the replacement of honorable individuals with disreputable ones.
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His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
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.
One of the virtues of General Sheridan was that he knew when to act without orders.
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