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The burden of slavery, which had hung like a millstone about the neck of the Republic, had been thrown off.
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Hoar emphasizes the significant impact of abolishing slavery on the United States.
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Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
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.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
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