When the Chinese matter was up, he stated in a few words that he could not, when he recalled the history of his own race, consent to vote for any measure which discriminated against any man by reason of his race or color.
Hoar recounts a senator's principled stance against racial discrimination during a legislative debate.
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Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
I took a great interest in the founding of the famous Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and I was the first person named in its Act of Incorporation.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
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