He was neither a thinker, like Seward, nor an orator, like Granger; but he was wise, wealthy, and eminently respectable, with enough of the statesman in him to be able to accept established facts and not to argue with the inexorable.
This passage provides a character assessment of a political figure, contrasting his qualities with those of more prominent politicians.
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