George F. Hoar: “I did not undervalue the great honor of representing Massachusetts in the Senate of the United States.”

The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.

But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.

A complete system of education at the National charge was an essential element of the reconstruction policy.

I believe that as time goes on, the great self-restraint of the American people in dealing with the momentous peril of 1877, and the constructive ability which created the simple but perfect mechanism of the Electoral Commission, will…