But at the time of the hubbub against me in Boston, Charles Emerson stood alone of a large company in defence of free thought and speech, and declared that he had rather see Boston in ashes than that I or anybody should be debarred in any way from perfectly free speech.
Hoar reflects on the support he received from Charles Emerson during a time of controversy regarding free speech.
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His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
As it is, the jetties have been of great value and well worth their cost.
He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
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.
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