We should have been saved the humiliation of witnessing the subjection by Great Britain of the Boers in South Africa, without a murmur of disapproval, and without an expression of one word of sympathy for the heroic victims.
Hoar expresses his disapproval of Britain's treatment of the Boers, highlighting a lack of sympathy from the U.S.
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It would have been a worse civil war than that of the Rebellion, because the country would have been divided not by sections, but by parties.
Edward Everett preached a sermon when he was twenty-four years old before a large audience in the Representatives Chamber at Washington which was heard with breathless silence.
And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.
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.
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