Excerpt from Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar: A Memoir Their first-born son was Samuel, who through a long life sustained and advanced the simple and brave ideals of Massachusetts. He was an eminent lawyer, a public-spirited citizen, a high-minded and honorable man. He was a Federalist, then a Whig, and when the slavery question became pressing he took a prominent part in founding the Republican party. He represented Concord in the Convention which sat in 1820 to revise the Constitution of Massachusetts; he served one term in Congress; and at the age of seventy-two was chosen to the Legislature of Massachusetts, where he rendered good service to Harvard College by a speech which defeated an attempt to abolish the Corporation and substitute a board to be chosen by the Legislature. At the age of seventy he was employed by the Governor of Massachusetts, authorized thereto by the Legislature, to test the constitutionality of certain laws passed in South Carolina, under which colored sailors on ships entering the har bors of that state were imprisoned while their ships were in port, and sold to pay their jail fees, if they were not paid otherwise when the ship went off. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.