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There has never been, within my experience, a greater power than his on the floor of the House.
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Hoar praises the exceptional debating skills of a colleague in the House of Representatives.
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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.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.
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