Samuel Hoar

I mean, it's, it's truly this kind of, this truly outrageous.

So what Massachusetts did is they sent, um, Samuel Hoar, a lawyer down to South Carolina to say, "You know what? I'm gonna challenge this in federal court, um, because this is an interstate discrimination.

It violates Article IV.

You're not even allowing people..." And the South Carolina legislature passes a kind of a, a, not so much a law, but just kind of a decree that says, um, "You need to leave, and, um, it'd be a shame if something happened to you," that sort of stuff.

A frank and natural equality was one of the traditional characteristics of Concord society, extreme wealth and extreme poverty being alike rare, so that its citizens, a plain and frugal folk, quite unostentatious in their manners and mode of life, yet prizing literature and learning, were saved from the evils of either luxury or destitution, while the well-known Concord families, the Hosmers and Barretts and Haywoods, preserved and handed on from generation to generation their sterling hereditary qualities.

The two leading personages at Concord at the time of Henry Thoreau's birth, and for many years afterwards, were Dr. Ripley, the Unitarian pastor of the village, who lived in the old manse which Hawthorne subsequently inhabited, and Samuel Hoar, a man of senatorial rank who exemplified in his character some of the best New England qualities of dignity, justice, and simplicity.

Dr. Ripley, quaint, humorous, and patriarchal, was minister at Concord for over half a century and was regarded by his parishioners as a friend and teacher to whom they could look for advice and assistance in all matters that concerned them.

Henry Thoreau was one of the many Concord children who had been baptized by him into the Unitarian church and in whose welfare the kindly pastor continued to take an affectionate interest.

How swiftly at last but unnoticed a generation passes away.

Three years ago I was called, with my father, to be a witness to the signing of our neighbor Mr. Frost's will.

Mr. Samuel Hoar, who was there writing it, also signed it.

I was lately required to go to Cambridge to testify to the genuineness of the will, being the only one of the four who could be there, and now I am the only one alive.