On the 10th of August, 1855, a meeting without distinction of party was held at Chapman Hall, in Boston, which was addressed by Mr.
Hoar, George Bliss, Franklin Dexter, William Brigham, Lyman Beecher, Richard H.Dana, Jr., Charles F.Adams, Henry Wilson, Stephen C.Phillips, and others.

On the 30th of the same month, a meeting of conference committees was held, representing the American or Know-Nothing party, the Know-Somethings, an antislavery organization which had held a National Convention at Cleveland in June, and the Chapman Hall Convention.

This conference appointed a committee of twenty-six to call a State Convention, at the head of which they placed Mr.Hoar.

This State Convention was held at Worcester, nominated Julius Rockwell for Governor, and the organization which it created has constituted the Republican party of Massachusetts to the present day.
The part taken in calling this Convention, and in promoting the union which gave it birth, was Mr.Hoar's last important public service.

His failing health prevented his taking an active share in the Presidential campaign of 1856.
I prefer, in putting on record this brief estimate of a character which has been to me the principal object of reverence and honor in my life, to use the language of others, and not my own.