They insisted that every attempt to restore silver to its old place would be futile, and that the promise to make the attempt, under any circumstances, was juggling with the people, from which nothing but disaster and shame would follow.
Hoar warns against the futility of attempts to restore silver's value, predicting disaster from such promises.
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His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.
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.
But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.
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