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there was never any question.
In his days of poverty no suggestions of a need that he remain quiet about some matter in which he believed, but which was not on the popular side, had any influence with him. In the days of the slavery contest, when the business interests of his city were ready for almost any concessions to Southern customers, he defied the “priests of the god Cotton,” as he called them, and rebuked them in most scathing terms.
When the war was over, and the questions of adjustment and reconstruction were to be solved, he took a stand immediately and openly in favor of pardon and renewed brotherhood which cost him the favor of thousands of old associates, and lost him an election to the United States Senate.
However much his judgment swayed, it never swayed “on that side fortune leans.”
New York, D. Appleton and Company, March 1903.
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