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Chase had been elected President of the United States he would have administered that lofty office honorably and to the advantage of the country.
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Hoar expresses his belief that if Chase had become president, he would have served honorably and effectively.
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This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
When the treaty was signed, the struggle began between freedom and slavery for the control of this imperial domain.
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