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Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales

by Taylor Robert L.

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Author: Taylor Robert L.

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"The Fiddle and The Bow," "The Paradise of Fools," and "Visions and Dreams," by the famous governor of Tennessee from 1887 to 1891.

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...heard them plead for their wayward boys. I saw a wife andseven children, clad in rags, and bare-footed, in mid-winter, fall upontheir knees around him who held the pardoning power. I saw a littlegirl climb upon the Governor's knee, and put her arms around his neck;I heard her ask him if he had little girls; then I saw her sob upon hisbosom as though her little heart would break, and heard her plead formercy for her poor, miserable, wretched, convict father. I saw want, and woe, and poverty, and trouble, and distress, and suffering, andagony, and anguish, march in solemn procession before the Gubernatorialdoor; and I said: "Let the critics frown and rail, let this heartlessworld condemn, but he who hath power and doth not temper justice withmercy, will cry in vain himself for mercy on that great day when the twocolumns shall meet! For, thank God, the stream of happy humanity thatrolls on like a gleaming river, and the stream of the suffering anddistressed and ruined of this earth, both...

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