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His standard of excellence was high.
He was severe, almost austere, in his judgments of other men.
And yet, with all this, everybody liked him. Everybody who
came to know him well loved him. It seems strange that he
never incurred enmities or provoked resentments. I suppose
the reason is that he never had any controversy with anybody.
He did not mingle in the discussion of the Senate as a debater.
He uttered his opinion and gave his reasons as if he were
uttering judgments. But he seldom or never undertook to reply
to the men who differed from him, and he rarely, if ever,
used the weapons of ridicule or sarcasm or invective, and he
never grew impassioned or angry. He had, in a high degree,
what Jeremy Taylor calls "the endearment of prudent and temperate
speech."
He was one of the men that Washington would have loved and
Washington would have leaned upon. Of course I do not compare
my good friend with him to whom no man living or that ever
lived on earth can be compared. And Mr. Morrill was never
tried or tested by executive or by military responsibilities.


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