But if I am asked whether I will advise the convention at Philadelphia to nominate, or if nominated I will recommend the people to support for the office of President of the United States, a swearing, fighting, frontier colonel, I only say that I shall not do it.
Hoar expresses his refusal to support a particular presidential candidate due to his violent background.
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He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
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.
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He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
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