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His inflexible courage and his clear vision manifested themselves in the very darkest period of our history, when hope seemed at times to have gone out in every other heart.
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Hoar praises a figure for their courage and clarity during a tumultuous time in history.
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But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
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His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.
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