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Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904

"Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2"

And there was no applause more earnest or hearty
than that of the successor of Taney, the Democratic Chief
Justice of the United States. I know that the people of that
race are still the victims of outrages which all good men
deplore. But I also believe that the rising sense of justice
and of manhood in the South is already finding expression
in indignant remonstrance from the lips of governors and preachers,
and that the justice and manhood of the South will surely
make their way.
"Ah, Fellow Citizens, amid the sorrow and the mourning and
the tears, amid the horror and the disappointment and the
baffled hope, there comes to us from the open grave of William
McKinley a voice of good omen! What pride and love must we
feel for the republic that calls such men to her high places?
What hope and confidence in the future of a people, where
all men and all women of all parties and sections, of all
faiths and creeds, of all classes and conditions, are ready
to respond as ours have responded to the emotion of a mighty
love.
"You and I are Republicans. You and I are men of the North.


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