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I mourn for the Commonwealth, which has lost before it yet had learned his name the promise of his eloquence and rare public gifts.
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Hoar expresses his sorrow over the loss of a talented individual whose potential contributions to society were never realized.
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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.
It is utterly impossible for me to support the Buffalo nomination.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
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