I myself, although I have always maintained, and do now, the equal right of all men of whatever color or race to a share in the government of the country, felt a thrill of sadness when I saw the Legislature of Louisiana in session in the winter of 1873.
Hoar shares his personal feelings of sadness regarding the political landscape in Louisiana post-Civil War.
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Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.
He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
It is utterly impossible for me to support the Buffalo nomination.
Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
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