On the record
For the great offence committed against us by Great Britain in the hour of our peril we have exacted apology and reparation.
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Hoar reflects on the need for apology and reparation from Great Britain for past grievances.
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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.
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.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
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