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The speeches are well worth studying by a person who wishes to get an idea of the intellectual and literary quality of these champions.
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Hoar reflects on the value of studying speeches to understand the intellectual quality of political figures.
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You said the people of Lowell would not think very highly of me when they saw me riding through the streets in my carriage and knew it was paid for by the money of this bank.
However any political antagonist might dislike him, every antagonist must respect him, and nobody could laugh at him.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
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.
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