Although a very decided advocate of the extension of the right of suffrage to women, I have not thought that it was likely that that would be accomplished by an amendment to the National Constitution, or indeed that it was wise to attempt to do it in that way.
Hoar expresses his belief in women's suffrage while questioning the method of constitutional amendment for it.
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However any political antagonist might dislike him, every antagonist must respect him, and nobody could laugh at him.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
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