<h3>"IT RESTS ME TO SAVE A LIFE!"</h3>
<p>Schuyler Colfax, then Speaker of the House, pleaded with Lincoln for
the life of an elector's son, sentenced to be shot. Though he intruded
on the arbiter very late after a long spell of official duties,
Lincoln accorded the boon.</p>
<p>"Colfax," explained he, "it makes me rested after a hard day's work,
if I can find some good excuse for saving a man's life, and I go to
bed happy as I think how joyous the signing of my name will make him,
and his family, and his friends."
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