I told him that I had lately been elected to the Senate after a considerable controversy, and that I did not think I could in justice to the people of the State make a vacancy in the office which would occasion a new strife.
Hoar expresses his commitment to his elected position and the responsibilities it entails.
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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.
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.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.
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