I think, as I had occasion to say to the British Ambassador afterward, that the restoration of this priceless manuscript did more to cement the bonds of friendship between the people of the two countries than forty Canal Treaties.
Hoar reflects on the significance of restoring a manuscript and its impact on Anglo-American relations.
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It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
One of the virtues of General Sheridan was that he knew when to act without orders.
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