But I believe I can better serve my country, and better support your Administration by continuing to discharge the legislative duties to which I have been accustomed for thirty years, than by undertaking new responsibilities at my age, now past seventy- two.
Hoar explains his decision to continue in legislative duties rather than take on new responsibilities at his age.
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Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
What was said helped to arouse public attention, and the masses of the people--always pure and incorruptible--set themselves earnestly and successfully to reform the abuses.
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.
One of the virtues of General Sheridan was that he knew when to act without orders.
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