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Nothing better can be said in praise
of either than that they have been worthy of her, and she
has been worthy of them. They have given her always brave
and honest service, brave and honest counsel. She has never
asked of them obsequiousness, or flattery, or even obedience
to her will, unless it had the approval of their own judgment
and conscience. That relation has been alike most honorable
and most advantageous to both sides. They have never been
afraid to trust the people and they have never been afraid
to withstand the people. They knew well the great secret
of all statesmanship, that he that withstands the people on
fit occasions is commonly the man who trusts them most and
always in the end the man they trust most.

CHAPTER II
ROGER SHERMAN AND HIS FAMILY
My mother, who died in 1866, at the age of eighty-three,
was the daughter of Roger Sherman of Connecticut. Her father
died when she was ten years old. She lived in her mother's
house, opposite the College in New Haven, until her marriage
in 1812. New Haven was one of the capital cities of New England.


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