Besides, no strictness of laws which provide only for the proceedings at the elections will secure their freedom if it be possible to intimidate the voters, especially men like the colored voters at the South, from attending the elections, by threats, outrages and actual violence at their homes.
Hoar emphasizes the importance of protecting voters from intimidation and violence during elections, particularly for marginalized groups.
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He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
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.
Edward Everett preached a sermon when he was twenty-four years old before a large audience in the Representatives Chamber at Washington which was heard with breathless silence.
It is utterly impossible for me to support the Buffalo nomination.
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