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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There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
It is utterly impossible for me to support the Buffalo nomination.
He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
What was said helped to arouse public attention, and the masses of the people--always pure and incorruptible--set themselves earnestly and successfully to reform the abuses.
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