George F. Hoar

There were no men in it, I suppose, who were equal in reputation or personal authority to either of the great triumvirate--Webster, Clay and Calhoun.

If you would ward off this blow at the national life, you have one perfect means of defence, the election of a Republican majority in the next House of Representatives.

The usurpation by Congress of the power to displace a President whenever they choose to determine that the original declaration of the result of an election was wrong, on whatever pretence it is defended, is a total overthrow of the…

The people have in their hands this frequent, easy and peaceful remedy for all evils of administration.

You know how easily party majorities persuade themselves, or affect to persuade themselves, of the existence of facts, which it is for their party interest to establish.

They have been so settled as between Hayes and Tilden, and it is only by usurpation and revolution that a subsequent Congress can undertake to reopen them.

We believe, on the other hand, that those States, and others whose votes were counted for Tilden, were strongly Republican, and would have been counted for Hayes without a question, but for violence and crime.

Be not lulled by these assurances into a false security.

It will be the President's duty to maintain himself in office, and the duty of all good citizens to stand by him.

The title of President Hayes, therefore, not only rests upon the strongest possible Constitutional sanction, but the honor of both the great parties in the country is solemnly pledged to maintain it.

We are satisfied that the leaders of the Democratic Party meditate an attack on the President's possession of his office, the results of which must be the destruction of the reviving industries of the country, civil confusion and war.

Our sense of the presence of a great public danger makes it our duty to address you.

No other cause would have led him to draw his sword; and he cared for no other earthly reward for his service.

He knew that he was contending for the life of his country, for the fate of human liberty on this continent.

But when his end is purely unselfish, when the love of country or the desire to save her life by giving his own has entire mastery of the soul, all mankind are agreed to award the good soldier a glory which it bestows nowhere else.

Even when the most selfish of human passions, the love of power or the love of fame, is the stimulant of the soldier's career, he must at least be ready for the supreme sacrifice--the willingness to give his life, if need be, for the…

Whatever may be said by the philosopher, the moralist, or the preacher, the instincts of the greater portion of mankind will lead them to award the highest meed of admiration to the military character.

But it is as a soldier that his countrymen will remember him, and it is as a soldier that he would wish to be remembered.

He told the story of the heroic days of the Revolution and of the heroic days of the War for the Union with a graphic power which will give his addresses on such subjects a permanent place in our best historical literature.

Written compositions remain; but the noblest displays of human genius at the bar--often, perhaps, the successful assaults of Freedom against the fortresses of Despotism--are lost to history and memory for want of needful recordation.

The judges of the Supreme Court long after he had left Washington were accustomed to speak of the admirable manner in which he had discharged his duties.

He filled the place of Attorney-General with a dignity and an ability which has been rarely if ever surpassed by any of the illustrious men who have filled that great office.

He could easily have been Governor or Senator, in which places the affection of the people of Massachusetts would have kept him for a period limited only by his own desire, and might well have been expected to pass from the Cabinet to an…

I think he was unsurpassed in this country in the generation to which he belonged in native gifts of oratory.

It would be a great calamity to have one of your Cabinet discredited by you." President Hayes took that view of it.