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I had become thoroughly sick of Washington and politics and public life.
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Hoar candidly admits his fatigue with Washington and the political scene.
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But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
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.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
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