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The noblest service the American biographer of a political man can render to his countrymen is to write the exact truth of his subject—to omit nothing—to palliate nothing—to conceal nothing—and to let the weight of the right good he records bear down in the balance of popular judgment the error and the wrong, if it can.
—Saturday Evening Post, August 9, 1856