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He contributed largely to the Government of his country, in the most trying period of our history, its motive and its direction.
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Hoar acknowledges the significant contributions of leaders during challenging historical periods.
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Judge Hoar never doubted that the service of a clean, able, upright Circuit Court, appointed without political influence, and entirely acceptable to the public, was well worth the sacrifice.
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.
As it is, the jetties have been of great value and well worth their cost.
It would have been a worse civil war than that of the Rebellion, because the country would have been divided not by sections, but by parties.
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