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160 would go among them personally and talk with them, until he felt sure that he had heard both sides and that what he proposed to do by his vote would be right. He was no dreamer, but a practical, hard-working, up-to-date citizen and public servant; nay, I should have said, public benefactor. Would that all our growing American lads might profit by his shining example!