But if there be such a thing in the universe as a moral law, if the distinction between right and wrong be other than fancy or a dream, the difference between General Butler and the men who contended with him belongs not to this life alone.
Hoar asserts the existence of a moral law that transcends life, contrasting General Butler with his opponents.
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But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
Judge Hoar never doubted that the service of a clean, able, upright Circuit Court, appointed without political influence, and entirely acceptable to the public, was well worth the sacrifice.
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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