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Show The World saya. of the late vice president: "The greatest defect in his , character was his timidity moral aud intellectual also. It was this weakness weak-ness that led htm to forsake his true name of Jeremiah Colbath, which he . should have lifted up from the dirt, instead of flinging hehind him as an impediment." Aj thisdefeat,however, did not interfere with his advance-meut.butseemed advance-meut.butseemed rather to promote it, ' the fault should be attributed rather to the character of his age than to " that ol the man. Though neither his r mother nor his brother followed his : example in the change of name, he never hesitated to acknowledge or provide liberally for them. His brother has long held an office in the capitol at Washington, aud he took kind and affectionate care of his mother at his own home during the late years of her life. |