I thank God that I have lived to behold this day, and that my eyes have been spared to see the people of the whole country united again in affection as in the early time.
I hope and expect to be able to attend your banquet next Forefathers' Day.

I will do so if the condition of the public business shall permit.

I have the charge of the business of the Committee on the Judiciary, two of whose important members are now absent in Paris, and it is of course possible that some of the great questions which are before us may require constant attendance in their places of all the Senators during the next session without the possibility of interruption for a Christmas holiday.

Subject to that possibility, I will accept your invitation, and am, with high regard, Faithfully yours, GEO.

F.HOAR.
In 1850, after he had withdrawn from professional and public life, being then seventy-two years old, Mr.Hoar was sent to the House of Representatives, by the town of Concord, to oppose the removal of the courts from Concord.