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musingly, if this was official dignity as President.
“No,” replied Judge Bates, “that is of little consequence.
His deficiency is in the element of will. I have sometimes told him, for instance, that he was unfit to be intrusted with the pardoning power.
Why, if a man comes to him with a touching story, his judgment is almost certain to be affected by it. Should the applicant be a woman, a wife, a mother, or a sister,--in nine cases out of ten, her tears, if nothing else, are sure to prevail.”
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