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Ah, Fellow Citizens, amid the sorrow and the mourning and the tears, amid the horror and the disappointment and the baffled hope, there comes to us from the open grave of William McKinley a voice of good omen!
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Hoar reflects on the legacy of President William McKinley after his assassination.
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