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 Too busy a worker to ever get any flesh, this precocious financier, soldier, statesman, jurist, patriot, belonged physically to the same class as Paul, Wesley, Napoleon, Grant, and the others of medium height—not little men at all—with the heads of big men and bodies of steel wire, tireless when hard work is on hand, outlasting all around them. Had he been a better shot; had the duel gone the other way; his name, great as it is, might have been among those which have filled the chair of our Chief Executive.

"A song-writer must always be a warm-hearted man. A cold song is inconceivable; but he is not always a strong man—he may be weak with all his warmth. Not