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It had established asylums for the blind and insane and deaf and dumb, and had made liberal gifts to schools.
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Hoar highlights the social advancements made under the Whig policy in Massachusetts.
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The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
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.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
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.
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