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George F. Hoar: “It awakened in my heart in early youth all the enthusiasm of which my nature was capable, an enthusiasm which from that…”

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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.
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George F. Hoar
Massachusetts

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Hoar describes the lasting enthusiasm he felt for the Free Soil movement from his youth.

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