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The men whose professions of returning loyalty to the Constitution have been trusted by the generous confidence of the American people are now to give evidence of the sincerity of their vows.
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Hoar calls for accountability from those who profess loyalty to the Constitution, emphasizing the need for sincerity in political promises.
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Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
Edward Everett preached a sermon when he was twenty-four years old before a large audience in the Representatives Chamber at Washington which was heard with breathless silence.
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