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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Lxiv. (search)
on in California. I hastened to say that I had found, in travelling in the New England States, more fervent admirers of the Unready than I had ever known to expend speculative enthusiasm upon him among us. So pleasant and scholarly a gentleman can never fail to secure personal friends, said the President. In fact, he continued, kindly, Even his failings lean to virtue's side. A keen sense of genius in another, and a reverence for it that forced expression, was out of place at Seven Oaks, as beautiful things sometimes will be. He was lost in admiration of General Lee, and filled with that feeling, forebore to conquer him. The quality that would prove noble generosity in a historian, does not fit the soldier. Another instance of the necessity for my suggestion being carried into effect, he added, smiling. When in New York a few months afterwards, I heard the regular dinner-table conversation turn on the Nero who cracked jokes while Rome was burning, and the hundred and