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I pledge the faith of the Commonwealth that for all time it shall be guarded in accordance with the terms of the decree under which it is delivered into her possession as one of her chiefest treasures.
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Hoar pledges the Commonwealth's commitment to preserving a historical manuscript as a treasured possession.
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The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
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.
The large majority was made up of sensible, strong-headed country farmers, rather slow in making up their minds, but making them up always on considerations of what was best for the Commonwealth.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
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