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They have spoken with scorn and upbraiding of those Northern Democrats who would sacrifice the rights and interests of the Free States upon the altar of party subserviency.
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Hoar criticizes Northern Democrats for compromising the rights of Free States for party loyalty, reflecting his anti-slavery stance.
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Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.
Judge Hoar strenuously insisted that the Judges of the newly created Circuit Courts of the United States should be made up of the best lawyers, without Senatorial dictation.
However any political antagonist might dislike him, every antagonist must respect him, and nobody could laugh at him.
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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