George F. Hoar: “I admit that open voting has its evils as well as its merits.”

There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.

His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.

It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.

He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.