Hoar has studied the era with a devout enthusiasm for the character of the people,--a people from whom he is proud to claim his own descent, and whose positive virtues (even with the spice of acridness which distinguished them) are faithfully reproduced in his own person.
Blaine admires a historical figure's enthusiasm for their ancestry and the virtues they embody.
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Crises often arise in the conduct of National affairs when cherished opinions must be sacrificed and new departures taken.
The feeling in many portions of the country toward the emancipated slaves, especially among the ignorant and uneducated, is one of vindictive and malicious hatred.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
This ratio of influence went into the Electoral College, and gave to the white men of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana double the power of that enjoyed by white men in New York, Illinois and California.
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