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Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904

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

That is the question
into the answer of which so much prejudice enters that it
is hardly worth while to reason about it. My opinion is that
as the colored man gets land, becomes chaste, frugal, temperate,
industrious, veracious, that he will gradually acquire respect,
and will attain political equality. Let us not be in a hurry.
Evils, if they be evils, which have existed from the foundation
of the world, are not to be cured in the lifetime of a single
man. The men of the day of reconstruction were controlled
by the irresistible logic of events; by a power higher than
their own. I could see no alternative then, and I see no
alternative now, better than that which was adopted.

CHAPTER XVIII
COMMITTEE SERVICE IN THE HOUSE
The career of a Member of either House of Congress is determined,
except in rare cases, by his assignment to Committees. In
the House that is wholly dependent on the favor of the Speaker.
In the Senate those assignments are made by Committees of
the two parties, chosen for the purpose, who first agree on
the representation to be assigned to each.


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