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George F. Hoar: “I have always resisted it and denounced it to the utmost of my power.”

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I have always resisted it and denounced it to the utmost of my power.
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George F. Hoar
Massachusetts

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Hoar expresses his lifelong opposition to religious prejudice and bigotry.

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