On the record
It awakened in my heart in early youth all the enthusiasm of which my nature was capable, an enthusiasm which from that day to this has never grown cold.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Hoar describes the lasting enthusiasm he felt for the Free Soil movement from his youth.
Share
More from George F. Hoar
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.
And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.
I took a great interest in the founding of the famous Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and I was the first person named in its Act of Incorporation.
He would undoubtedly have taken a very high place in the public and official life of his generation if he had found himself in accord with either of the great political parties.
Other voices in this conversation
