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His independence of his own party led him to support a very much worse party domination, and to help to accomplish measures and establish principles to which he had been all his life utterly opposed.
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Hoar critiques the consequences of political independence that led to supporting opposing party policies.
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Judge Hoar strenuously insisted that the Judges of the newly created Circuit Courts of the United States should be made up of the best lawyers, without Senatorial dictation.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
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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