We desire, above all things, the maintenance of the principles of civil and religious liberty; and above all other instrumentalities to that end, the maintenance of our common school system, at the public charge, open to all the children and free from partisan or sectarian control.
Hoar advocates for civil and religious liberty and the importance of a non-partisan public school system.
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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.
His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.
It is utterly impossible for me to support the Buffalo nomination.
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