Note 151 — Chapter XIV · THE HARDS AND THE SOFTS 1853
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"With advancing years Mr. Conkling's temperament changed slightly. The exactions of legal life, and, to some extent, the needs of his political experience, apparently estranged him from the masses, although he was naturally one of the most approachable of men."—Alfred R. Conkling, The Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling, pp. 203, 204.