![To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.](/assets/img/quote-photos/to-seek-out-the-best-persons-to-serve-in-the-government-though-the-whole-union.jpg)
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