He said that while Marshals were being murdered in Florida, and the execution of the law resisted, he would appoint no man to public office who either sympathized with such things, or belonged to a party that did not oppose and resist them.
Hoar quotes President Harrison's rationale for not appointing individuals who sympathized with lawlessness.
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