Show TELEGRAPHIC NEWS LAiNEtS EULOGY rJUu Tcibate to the i Lem J ears of Garfield Nket Erli f be + Typical tm j carr The Eloqaence oj a Frieud Washington Following is the speech of Hr B i aine delivered at the Garfield memorial meeting today Mr President For the second time in this generation the great dapartraeats of the government of the United SlAtes are assembled in the Hall of Representatives to do honor to the memory of a murdered President Lincoln fell at the close of a mighty struggle in which the passions of man had been deeply stirred The tragical termination of his great life added but another to the lengthened succession of horrors which haa marked too many lintels with the blood of the first born Garfield was slain in a day ofpel when brother had been reconciled to brother I i i and when anger and hate had hem tanubed from the land Whoever htli I hereafter draw the portrait of murJer I it he will bow it as it has been exbibred where such an example was last to have j been looked for let him nut give the grim visage of Moloch the bow knitted I by revenge the face black with settled hate Let him draw rather a decorous I smoothfaced bloodlesi demon not so much an example of human nature in its I depravity and in its roxysms of crime as Ian I-an infernal being a fiend in the ordinary display and development of his charac j I ter Frcm the landing ot the PSgrion at Plymouth or the uprising again + t Charles Firat about 20000 emigrants came from old England to New England As they came in pursuit of intellectual freedom and ecclesiastical independence rather than for wprdly honor and profit the emigration naturally ceased when the oonteat for religious liberty began in earnests at home The man who struck this most effective blow for the freedom of con Ecience by Bailing for the colonies in 1620 would have been accounted n dtsaiter to leave after 1610 Trio ooportunitv Dad then come on the stall of England for that great contet which sabmaed the authority of Par mntit to give religious freedom to the people sent Charley to i the block and commuted to the hands of Oliver Cum weB the supreme executive of England The Engligh f migration migra-tion was never renewed and from these 20TO man with a smell emigration emigra-tion from Scotland and from France are descended numbers who have New England Eng-land blood in their veins In 1685 the revocation of the edict of Nantez by Louis XIV scattered to other countries 400 000 ProtestanU who were among the most intelligent and enterprising of French subject merchants of cipilal skilled mechanics and hand craftsmen iupjrior at the time to all others in Europe A considerable consider-able number of these liuguenot French crma to America A law landed in New England and became honorably prominent promi-nent in itt hillary Their names have in large part become Anglicized or have disappeared but their blood is traceable in many of tha most reputablo families and their fame is i perpetuated in i honorable memorials and useful institution insti-tution From these two sources the English puritan and the FrenchHugenot came his fathir Abraham Garfield being I descended from the one and his mo erE er-E iza Ballou from the other It was good stock on both aides None better none braver none truer There was in it an iBheritaac of courage of manliness of imperishable love of liberty of undying un-dying adherence to principle Garfield was proud of hit blood with as much satisfaction as if he were a British nobleman noble-man reading his stately ancoalrial record on Bunkers peorage He spoke of himself ai ninth in descent from those who would not endure the aggrenion of the Stuart and seventh in descent from the brave French Protestants who refused to i submit to tyranny even from the Grand Monarque General Garfield delighted to dwell on these traits and daring his poly visit to England ha bailed himself in discovering ovary trace of his fore fathers in parish registries and on ancient army rolls Sitting with a friend in the gallery of the House of Commons one night after a long days labor in this field of research he said with evident elation that in every war which for three centuries the patriots of English blood had struck sturdy blows for constitutional con-stitutional gortrament and human liberty lib-erty his family had been represented They ware at Harston Moor at Nasby and Preston they were at Bunkers Hill at Saratoga and Monmouth and hii own person had battled for the same great cause in the war which preserved the Union of states Losing his father before he was 2 years old the early life of Garfield was one of privation but his poverty has been made indelicately and unjustly prominent promi-nent Thousands of leaders have imagined ima-gined him as the ragged starving chief whose reality too often greets the eye in the squalid sections of our large cities Gen Garfields infancy and youth had none of their destitution none of their pitiful appealing to the tender heart or to the open hard charity He was in tne same sense in which Henry Clay was a poor boy in which Andrew Jackson was a poor boy in which Daniel Webster was a poor boy in tee same eansa in which a large majority of the eminent men of America in all generations have been poor boys Before a great multi tude of men in a public speech ilr Webster bore tais testimony 1 did not happen to be born in log cabin but my elder b others a and sisters were born in a log cabin raised amid the snowdrifts of New Hampshire when at a period so early that I I the smoke rose first from its crude chimney and curled OTnl tv < > f n i1 o Aiv eu UlilS there was nc similar evidence white of a white habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada Its remains still exist I make to it an annual visit I carry my child en to it to teach them tlje hardships endured by the genera tions which have generaI gone befora them I love to dwell on the tender recollections kindred tics the early H u > c ions and the touching narratives and incidents which family mingle wita all I Know of this primative With the requisite change of scene the I I game words wouid apply to the early days of Garfle d Tnu poverty of the i frontier where all are engaged in e com mon struggle and where a common sym pathy and hearty co operation lighten the burdens of each is a very different poverty different in kind different in influence and effect from that conscience and humiliating indigence which the every day forced tocontrast itnalf wit e neighboring wealth on which it is fed fair u scene of grinding dependence Thf l1y poverty of the frontier is no poverty It t n but the beginning of wealth and bat opal the boundla s possibilities of the future em r ln tys opening Q ° before it No man ever Crw up ic the agricultural region of the prod ih was wnae a house raising or even a corn hulking i < a matter of common lintereit P is ett rill and htlpfulnls with any other feeling thn that of bria minded generous in ur dependence This honorable indeoen art deuce marked the youth of G field sa fflPl it marks the youth of millions of the best l ecu blood and brain now training for the pout i future citizenship and future government f of it of the republic Garfield ° r t was bora an heir to land to the title of freeholder try it which has been the dept patent and paa port of sulf respect with the rtngloSaxon one race ever since Hen iiit and Ham lear landed on the shores of England His mss of ti adventure on the canal an alternative between that and the deck of a Lake Erie schooner was a farmer boys device ofb for earning money just M the New of England o y = boy begins a possibly great career by sailing before the mast Gar on a casting vessel or a merchantman merchant-man bound toy Farther India Ora taf tho Chinese Sea No s or to manly man leoln anything of shame in looking bacl ea I to early struggles with adverse circuai aant stances and < J no man feels a worthiercall i pride than that he has conquered the ob dR starts to his progress But no one of no bie mould desires to ba looked upon as at a having occupied a menial posi ion 83 o rei having been repressed with a feeling of IDci pe inferiority or us having suffered the evils FrYti of poverty until relief was found at the > Ga hand of charity General GarfiaHa sari youth presented no hardships which lam and ily love and fam ly energy did not overcome fi nie over-come subjeCt him to no privations rThe which he did not cheerfully accept and watt lot no memories save those which f 75mn were recalled with delight and transmitted taw transmit-ted with profit and with pride fmai 1 Garfieldj early opportunities for tint securing an education were ex o tiemely limited and yet were 1d sufficient to develop in him moan i mo-an intense desire to learn He could read 5f at 3 year of age Each winter he had f the advantage of u district school He ° read all tho books he found within the psis of circle of his acquaintances Some of the iL them ha got by bean While yet in ° cnuanooa no was 5 constant student of 4tb the Bible and became familiar with ij i 3 all 1 litarature The dignity and earnestness Eg bat of his speech in his mature life gave evidence Cu evi-dence of this early training At 18 years of age he was able to teach school and con roo thenceforth his ambition to was obtain a dip college education To this end ho bent acc nil his efforts workitg in the harvest field at the cnrpunters bench and in the bee y winter season teaching the common wht schools of tne neignb irhood While Mnoa thus laboriously occupied he found time mil to prosecute his studies and was so sue ref cesaful that at 22 he was able to enter the UC junior class at Williams College then neVi under the presidency of the venerable JBtha and honored Mark Hopkins who in the Hotbi fulness of his powers survived the em Htha inent pupil to whom he was of m ° sUm Hhis able service The history ofGafiadj Hfiae life to this period presents no new lea colt lures He bad undoubtedly shown per awhc severence selfreliance eelfiacnfica and tim ambition qualities which be it said for Eec the honor of cur country are mil everywhere to be found among of I the young men of America But jBthe from his graduation at Williams In He onward to tho hour of his tragical death IB in t Garfiolds career was eminent aid eicep 9 thi tional Slowly wofking through his cor educational pariod receiving his diploma Mtcr when 24 years of age he seemed tit one m gre bound to spring into conspicuous and fiat brilliant tuccess Within fix years he up was succesjiyoly president of a college of state senator of Ohio majorgeneral of con the army of the United estates and a ut representative to the national Congress chc A combination of honors so varied so r tha oievated within a period go brief and to I WOI a man so young is without precedent or ma parallel in the history of the country sue Garfields army life was begun with no j S1e other military knowledge than such as i the be had hastily gained from books in the M of t few months preceding his march to the legi 1 1 field Stepping from civil life to the rise bead of So regiment the first order be received res re-ceived when ready to cross the Ohio its was to assume command of a brigade tint and to operate as an independent column grin gr-in eastern Kentucky flu immediate seta duty was to check the advance of wit Humphrey Marshall who was marching par down the Big Sandy with the intention see of occupying in connection with other B out Confederate forces the entire territory mo Kentucky and of precipitating the tate hoi in secession This was at the close trni of the year 1861 Seldom if his ever has a young college prefespr the been thrown into a more embarassin sand s-and 10 discouraging position He knew just enough of military science as ha we expressed it himself to measure the ex wo tent of his ignorance and with a hand the iui of men he was marching in rongii and winter weather into n strange country tinE among a hostile population to confront ttv a largely superior force under the com H mand cf a distinguished graduate of it West Pointwho had teen active and import alt im-port nt service in 6U two proceeding wafT The result of the campaign is matter of WE history The skill the endurance the re extraordinary energy shown by Garfield tb di the courage he imparted to his men raw and untried as himself s the measure ha etc adopted to increase his force and to the create in the enemvs mind PYR rerated ssl r10 estimates of his numbers bore nn perfect ten fruit in 11 hs the routing of Marshall the capture of his camp the dispersion Ua of his force and Jo the emancipation of an important territory from the control snC fin the rebellion Coming at the close of along fot a-long series of difaaters to the Union ms of srmy Garfieltts victory had an unususi and extraneous impression and in the r popular judgment elevated the young Th commander to the rank of a military ene hero With less than 2000 men in hIS ace nli entire command with a mobilized force of had she only 1100 without cannon he ha met an army of 5000 and defeated them lie R i dnviajr Marshalls fnrrfw fiuccssfully L from two strongholds of their own seiee hi ° I toon fortified with abundant artillery J ci the Major General Buel commanding I department B w i of the Ohio an experienced tEd and able land soldier of the regular army I published an order of thanks and con CiI les gratulations on the brilliant result of the I I Big Sandy campaign which would bata Wo is i r turned the head of a leis sensible mss I than Garfield Buel declared that hs ain I service s had called into action the bigse t tE qualities of a soldier and President LuC ter I coIn supplemented these words of praise col in by the more substantial reward of a ab I brigadier gonerals commission to bear date from the dy of his decisive victory ph t1l over Marshall The subsequent military career of Gar or Ir field faliy siutained its brilliant begin DO fling With his new commission he ws 3 assIgned o the command a brigada the army of the Ohio and took pa J I t o d < I = 4 L = L second and decisive days ficrht in M eat battle of Shiloh The re great be 1862 not especi tiniler of the year was 0irfder eventful to Garfield aa it wal to the giy l sties wiicn he was serving His pra S B6DB8 was cnlled into exercise con mplating the tnsk assigned him by rfn Duel or the reconstructing of the fn ridge and reestablishment of lines of jiw r communication for tho army liln occupation in this useful but not gi gii irilliant field was varied by service on a ourt fl3AriP1J 1 of Importauce In which de Irtmett of duty ha won a valuable aputation attracting the notice and pcurinff the approval of tho able emi Jent judge advocate of the army That teif was a warrant to honorable fame rfor among the great men who in those themselve with entire vine days gave devotion to the service of their country I one brought to thnt service the ripest i TarniWTi the mot fervid eloquence tho 1 es vaied atinments who in the day If triumph 5t reserved and silent and o gratefUl At Francis Deaks in the hour gf deliverance was Joseph Holt of hungers f Kentucky who in his retirement en 9l irbe rEspect rnd veneration of all who i joy ova the Union of states Early in 1863 Garfield was assigned to the highly im Tvulanl and responsible post ot chief of pOff General Bosecrans when at the tafi to head Eta of the Army of the Cumberland Cumber-land Perhaps in a pr > lt military campt jgn no subordinate officer requires sounder judgment ana quicker knowledge knowl-edge than the cbief of staff in the command com-mand of i genera An indiscreet man D in uch a position can sow more dicord breed more jealousy and decmmate more ttnfe than any other officer in the organization When General pntir Garfield fin as umed his new dniiea ho found various truub es already w 11 developed and Eericusly efleciiig the value I and efficiency ef-ficiency of tbe army ot the Cum berland The energy the impartiality 1 and tact with which he sought to allay the diesen lions and to discharge the duties of his new and trying pusitwn will always remain re-main a striking pro of his great versa tilily e tililyHi5 military datles cIo on the mem iznoriable field of dbicamaugua a field which however aisss rous to the Union arm tare t him the occasion of winning inue hible laurels The very rare hiS Kiion was accorded him of s great promotion for hH bravery the iitId h t was lost President Lincoln Lin-coln appoTUtd him a mjor general in the rJy < ll the United Slates for tho rJ meritorious conauct in the btttl of Chickmaugua The army of the Cumberland was reorganised under the cununa r d of General Thomas who promptly offered Gen Garfisld one of its divj ion H was extremely desirous to accept the position but was embarrassed by the fstet that he bad a 3 ear before been elected to Congress tti < dthe time when he mu t tale his teat was drawing near ilo preferred tj remain in the military service and bad within his own breast the largest confidence of fuccws in the wider field which his Jew ra k opend to him Balancing the argument on the one tide and the other anxious to determine what was for tbabct dpirous Rb ve all things to do patriotic duty he was dec5 evelr l influenced in-fluenced by the advice of President Lincoln Lin-coln and Secretary Stanton both of whom assured him that he could at mat time be of spec al value in the House of Repre cnt8tivt s He resigned his coma com-a 3ion of uiHJor general on the 5th day ufDeceraber ISO and took his seat in the H > use of Hspresentatives on the 8th He hid served two years and four months mtiiearmy and had just completed his tlhtrstcnd year The thirtFeighth corgesa H prominently entitled in his orjo tile Fgnation of the war con frefe it was elected while the war was imU and every member was chosen ipoa causes involved in the continuance of tbe struggle The thirtyseventh congrt58 had indeEd legilated to a large eitot on war measures but it was then btfore tiny one believed hit a secession of the states vould lobe actually attempted Then The-n 1n inou3 work which fell upon its ncce or was unprecedented but in re ect to the vast sum of money raised for I tseupp irt of the army and navy and 01 the v I aid extraordinary powers of figisla n < which it was forced to exer ce ry twentyfour states were rep esented t id 182 members were upon I its roll Among thee were many dis I tinguished party leaders on both side I grown eld in the public service with II i established reputation for ability and with that skill which comes only from I I parliamentary experience Into this as I sembiageof men Garfield entered without with-out special preparation and it might al cost be said unexpectedly The question ques-tion of taking command of a division of I troops under General Thomas or taking j his seat in Concrws was kept open till I the last momsnt EO late indeed that the lesignation of his military commission commis-sion and his appearance in the House iire almost contemperaneous He wore the uniform of a major general of the United States army on Saturday sod on Monday ill civilians dress be inswered to the roll call as a representa jJve in Congress from the State of Ohio ae was epecmlly fortunate in the con stituency i which elected him Descended tnost entirely from New England tock the men of the Asbtabula district ro intensely radical on all questions sting to human rights well educated roughly intelligent m affairs acutely wtcernine of character not quick to bet be-t vvy confidence and slow to withdraw it they were at once tbe most helpful and I I lost exacting of supporters Their I aacious trust in men in whom they I Uve once confided is illustrated by the paralleled fact that Eliha Whittlesey j o hua R Gedawes and James A Gar I 4ld represented the district for fifty flr years There is no test of a ms ability in any department r public life more severe than Zvice in the House of Representatives here is no place where so little differ ee is paid to a reputation previously urej or to eminence won outside nowhere blct no-where so little consideration is town for the feelings or failures of be ners What a man gains in these j the-se he gains by sheer force of his own I iracer and if be loses and falls back I must expect no mecy and will re teire no yroP thy It is a field in I hlCh he survival of the strongest is the eogiiized rule and where no pretense eta be derived and i no glamor can mh I Ittd r The real mn is discovered His worth Iii I impartially weighed His rank I I i trrevocabl decked i With Dojsibly a I IIIrJe exception Garfield wa the young tmernter in the Bouse when he en tared and u WlS but seven year from his 9OUege IL gaduition but he hd not been his S4 > al sixty days before his I iauty wa recognized and his I tt conctdH H > 1 stepped to frunL of uwituh the confirlenc14 1Qb5 man Who be Dge1 there The I bth We crod d with strong men of Pirtie Jfifteteeii i of them have I I i i I r lince been transferred to the Senate and I many of them have served with distinction distinc-tion in the gubernatorial chairs of their respective states and on foreign missions of great consequence but among all none grew no rapidly none so firmly as Garfield As I said of Teyelan of his parliamentary hero Garfield succeeded because all the world in concert could BOt have kept him in the background and because when once ia the front he played bis part with a prompt intrepidity intrepid-ity and a commanding ease that were but the outward symptoms of the immense im-mense reserves of energy on which it was in his power to draw Indeed the apparently reserved force which Garfield possessed was one of his great characteristics ne ever em to well but that it seemed ha easily could have done better He never expended EO much strength but that he seemed to be holding additional power at call This is one of the happiest and rarest distinctions dis-tinctions of an effective leader and often counts for as much in persuading an assembly as-sembly as tbe eloquent and elaborate argument ar-gument which distinguished his service in the House of Representatives His military life illustrated by honorable prrformance and rich in promise was ai hQ himself felt prematurely terminated and necessarily incomplete Speculation as to what he might have done in a field where the great prizes areso few cannot be profitable It is sufficient to say that as a soldier he did duty bravely be did it intelligently he won an enviable fame and he retired from the service without s blot or breath against him As a lawyer though admirably equipped for the profession he can scarcely be said to have entered on its practice The few efforts made at the bar were distinguished by the same high order of talent which he exhibited on every field on which he was put to the lost and it a man may bo accepted as a competent judge of his own capacities and adaptations the law 1 was the profession profes-sion to which Garfield should have devoted de-voted himself but tte ordained otherwise other-wise and his republican history will rest largely upon hia service in the House of Representatives That service was exceptionally ex-ceptionally long He wa nine times consecutively con-secutively a congressman to the House an honor enjoyed by not more than six other republicans of the more than a thousand who have been elected from the organization organi-zation of the government to this hour As a parliamentary orator as a debater on an iebue squarely joined where the position had been chosen and the ground laid out Garfield must be aEEi ned avery a-very high rank more so perhaps than any man with whom he was associated in public life He gave careful and systematic study to public questions and he came to every discussion in which he took part with preparation He was a steady and indefatigable worker Those who imagine teat talent or genius cn supply tho place or achieve the results re-sults of labor will find no encouragement in Garfields life In preliminary work he was apt rapid and skillful He pressed in a high degree the power of rtadily aborbing ideas and facts and like Dr Johnson J had the art of getting from book ail that was of value in it by R reading apparently so quick and cursory that it seemed like a mere fiance at the table of contents He was preeminently pre-eminently a fair and candid man in debate de-bate and took no petty advantage stooped to no unworthy method avoided peronal altercation rarely appealed to prejudice end did not seek to inflame passion Hs had a quicker eye forth for-th strong point of his adversary than i for his weak point and on his own side he so marshaled his weighty arguments aa to make his hearers forget any possible pos-sible lacL l in the complete strength of his I position He hid a habit of stating j his opponents side with such amptitude of fhiraess and such significance and I liberaity of concession that his followers often complained that be was giving his cause away but never in his prolonged participation in the proceedings of the House did he give his caso auay or fail in judgment of competent and impartial listeners to gain tne mastery These characteristics which marked Garfield asa as-a great debater did not however make him a great parliamentary leader A 1 parliamentary leader as that term is i understood un-derstood wherever a free representative government exists is necessarily and very strictly the orga of his p rty An ardent American defined the instinctive warmth of patriotism when ho offtred the toast Our country always right but right or wrong our country A parliamentry leader has a body of followers fol-lowers hat will do and dare and die for a cause is one who believes his party always right but right or wrong is for his arty The more important im-portant or exacting duty devolves upon I him than the selection of the field and the time for a contest He must know not merely how to strike i he often skil i fully avoids the strength of his opponents oppo-nents position and scatters confusion in its ranks by attacking exposed point where really the right business of the cause and strength of the logical in trenchmenta are against him He conquers con-quers often both against the right and = heavy battalions as when young Charles Poi in the daya of history carried the House of Commons against justice against imminent rights against his own convictions if indeed at that period fox had convictions and in obedience to a tyrannical sovereign l drove Wilkes I from the seat to which the electors of Middlesex had chosen him and installed Luttrall in defiance not merely of law but 1 t of J public decency For an achievement of this kind Gar field was unqualified i by tbe tenure of bin mind by the honesty of his heart by his conscience and by every instinct and aspiration as-piration of big nature The three most distinguished parliamentary persons hitherto developed in this country are Mr Clay Mr Douglass and Tbaldeus Steven Each was a man of consummate I consum-mate ability of great earnestness and in tense personality differing each from the p hers and yet with the signal trait J in common the power to command In the give and take of daily discussion in the art of controlling and consolidating reluctant and rafiaotory followers in skill to overcome all forms of opposition and to meet with complacency Mid courage cour-age the varying phases of unlookedfor aseault or unsuspected defec ion it wuula be difficut to rank with thai a fourth name in all our congressional bis cry But of these Mr Clay was the greatest It would pernais be impossible to find in the parliamentary par-liamentary annals of the world a pimvl Ifl to Mi City in 1841 when at 61 years of age he took control of th whig party rom the President who had rtCIed their suffrages against tbt4 power < t W otter n the cubinet against th eloquence elo-quence of Choattj in the benaie 6gitt ttii berculaaean efforts of Ci b Cub u > K and tieiry A Wie in bt B > uf In the unsbard lffder u p n the pride nd pleniiludo of piwet he huriei fegiu t John Tyler with deepest cornl r < = the macs of that conquering column which had swept over the land in 1840 and drove his administration to seek helter behind the lines ef his political foes Mr Douglas achieved a victory scarcely lees wonderful when in 184 against the secret desires of a strong administration against the wise courael of older chief against the conservative instinct and even the great moral sense of the coualry he forced a reluctant Congress into a repeal of the Missouri compromise Mr Thaddsus Stevens in his oontoit from 1865 to 1868 actually advanced his parliamentary leadership uatil Congress tied the hands of the President and gpverned the country by its own wilt allowing only perfunctory perfunc-tory duties to bo discharged by the executive ex-ecutive With two hundred millions of patronage in hi hands at the opening of the contest indeed by the active force of Seward in the cabinet and tbe moral I strength of Chase on tne bench General Johnson could not command the support of eithor home against tbo parliamentary uprising of which Tbaddeus Stevens was the animating spirit and unquestioned leader Continued on page 5 TELEGRAPHIC NEWS BLINE EULOGY Continued from page 3 Prom these three great men Garfield Gar-field differed radically difierdd in the quality of his mind and temperament tithe ti-the form and phase of his ambition He could not do what try did but he could do whAt they could not and in the breadth of tin congressional work he left l that which will lung exert a potential poten-tial influence among J men and which measured by the severe test If poithu mus criticim and secure a more enduring endur-ing and more enviable fame Tnosa unfamiliar un-familiar with Garfielis industry and ignorant of the details of his work may in some degree measure them by the annuls an-nuls of Congress No one of the generation genera-tion of public men to which he belonged bus contributed BO much that will be valuable for future reference His speeches are numerous many of them brilliant and all of tnem well studied carefully phrased and exhaustive of the subject it hud under consecration col lectd from the scattered pages of ninety royal cctavo volumes oi tare Congressional Congres-sional Kecords They would present an Invaluable compendium of the political history of the moat important era through which the national government gov-ernment has eve passed When the war legislation the measures of reconstruction re-construction the proclamation of human rights amendments of the Constitution maintenance of public credit steps toward to-ward resumption true theories of revenue reve-nue may be reviewed unsurrounded by prejudice and disconnected from parI tisanism the speeches of Garfield will be estimated at their true value and will be found to comprise a vast magazine of fact and argument of clear analysis and sound conclusion Indeed if no other authority were accessabie his speeches in the House of Representatives from December 1863 to June 1880 would give a well connected history and complete defense of the important legislation legis-lation of the seventeen eventful years that constitute his parliamentary life Far beyond that his speeches woald be found to forecast many great measures which he knew sere beyond tbe public opinion of the hour but which he confidently con-fidently believed would secure popular approval 1 within a period of his own lifetime life-time and by the aid of his own efforts Differing as Garfield does from brilliant parliamentary leaders it is not easy to find his counterpart anywhere in American Ameri-can public life He perhaps more nearly resembled Mr Seward in his supreme su-preme faith in the allconquering power of a principle He had thu love of learning learn-ing and patient industry of investigation lo which John Quincy Adams owes his prominence ana his presidency He had some of th se ponderous elements or mind which distinguished Mr Webter and which indeed in all our public life have left the great Massachusetts senator without an intellectual peer in English parliamentary history as in our own The leaders in the House of Commons present points of essential difference from Garfleld but some of his methods ree + ll those best features in the strong independent inde-pendent course of Dir Robert Peal and the resemblance is discoverable n that most promising of modern conservatives who died too early for his country and his fame Lord George Benttinck lie had all of Burkes love for the sublime and beautiful with possibly something of h s superabundance and in his fuith and in his magnanimity in his power of staement in his subtle analysis in h s faultless logic in his love of literature in his wealth and world of illustration and of those quiet Enciish statesmen of today who confronted by obstacles that would daunt any bnt the dauntless reviled re-viled by those whose supposed rights ho is toiced to invade still labors with serene se-rene courage for the amelioration of Ireland Ire-land and for the honor of the English name Garfieds nomination to the presidency presi-dency while not predicted or anticipated was not a surprise to the country Hi prominence in Congress his solid qualities his wide reputation strengthened by his then recent election as a senator from Ohio kept him in public eyes A man occupying the very highest range among those entitled to be called statesmen it was not more chance that brought him this hi4h honor We must says Air Emerson reckon success a constitutional trait If Eric is in robust health and has slept well and ie at the top of his condition condi-tion and 30 years old at his departure from Greenwald he will steer west and his ships will reach Newfoundland But take Erie and put in a stronger and bolder man and the ships will sail 0000 1500 miles further and reach Labrador and New England There is no chance in the result As a candidate candi-date Garfield steadily grew in popular favor He was met with a storm of detraction de-traction at the very hour of his nomination nomina-tion and it continued with increasing volume and momentum till the close of his victorious campaign No s in morality can might or greatness I escape censure What king so strong can tie the gall u > in the slanderou tongue Under it all he was calm and strong and confident never lost his sell possession did no unwise act spoke no hasty or illconsidered word Indeed nothing in his whole life is more remarkable remark-able or more ere Jiluble than his barring sI through those five full months vituperation vituper-ation a prolonged agony ot trial to a sensitive man a constant and cruel draft upon the powers of moral endurance The great mass of these unjust imputations imputa-tions passed unnoted and with the gen the fell into eral debris of campaign I oblivion But IT a fa instances the iron entered his soul and he died with the injury in-jury unforgotten if not unforgiven One aspect of Garfields Candida wa unprecedented Never before m the history his-tory of partisan contests in this country had presidential candidate spoken p yon y-on pasting events and current issues To attempt anything of the kind seemed novel rash and even desperate The older class of voters recalled the unfortunate unfortu-nate Alabama letter in which Mr Clay was supposed to have signed his political deathwarrant They remembered also the hottempered effusion by which Gene Gen-e al Scott lost a large share of his popularity popu-larity before his nomination and the unfortunate un-fortunate speeches which rapidly consumed con-sumed the remainder The younger voters had seen Mr Greely in a series of vigorous vigor-ous and original addresses preparing the path WlY fir his own defeat Un mindful mind-ful of these warnings unheeding the advice ad-vice of friends Garfield spoke to large crowds as ho jorneved to and from New York in Augut to s great multitude in that city to delegations and deputations Mentor dur of vary kind that called at ing the summer and autumn with watchfulness watch-fulness and eager to catch a phrase that might be turned into odium or ridicule I or a sentence that might be distorled to his own or his partys injury Garfield did not trip or halt in any one of his seventy speeches This seems all the more remarkable when it is remembered that he did not write what he said and yet spoke with such logical consecutiveness of thought and such admirable precision of phrase as to defy the accident of mierepor t and the malignity of misrepresentation In the beginning of his presidential life Garfield experience did not yield him pleasure or satisfaction The duties that engross eo large a portion of the Presidents time were distasteful to him and were unfavorably contrasted with his legiolntive work s I have been delaying de-laying all these years with ideas he impatiently im-patiently exclaimed one day and here Im dealing only with persona I have been heretofore treating of the fundamental funda-mental principles cf government and here I am considering all day whether A or B shall bo appointed to this or that office He was earnestly seeking some practical way of correcting the evils arising from the distribution of overgrown and wieldy patronage It was always appreciated and often discussed dis-cussed by him but whose magnitude hud been more deeply impressed upon his mind since his accession to the presidency I presi-dency Had he lived 6 comprehensive I improvement in the mode of appointment appoint-ment and in the tenure of office would have been proposed by him and with the aid of Congress no doubt perfected But while executive duties wero not grateful to him he was assiduous and conscientious in their discharge from the very outset be exhibited administrative talent of high order He grasped the helm of office with the hand of a master In this respect indeed he constantly surprised many who were not most intimately associated as-sociated with him in the government and especially those who feared he might be lacking in executive faculty His dispatch of buiness was orderly and rapid his powei of analyzing and his bkill in classification enabled him to dispatch dis-patch a vest mass of detail with singular promptness and ease His cabinet meetings were admirably conducted his clear presentation of official subjects sub-jects his well considered suggestions of topics on which discussion was invited his quick decision when all had been beard combined to show a thoroughness of mental training as rare as his natural ability and his facile adaptation to a new and enlarged field of labor With the perfection of all the inheritance of the war with a cool calculation of the obstacles ob-stacles in his way impelled always by a generous enthusiasm Garfield conceived that muh might be done by his administration ad-ministration towards restoring harmony between the different V sections of the Union He was nxious to see tho south and speak to the people As early M April he had ineffectually endeavored to arrange for a trip to Nashvillewhere he had been cordially invited and again he was uisuppointed a few weeks niter to find he could not go to South Carolina to attend the centennial commemoration of the victory of Cowpon but for the autumn he definitely counted en being present at three memorable memor-able assemblies in the south Lee celebration at Yorktown tha opening open-ing of the cotton exposition at Atlanta and the meeting of the army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga He was already turning over in his mind his addresses ad-dresses lor each occasion and the three taken together he said to a friend gave hIm the exact scope and verge bt needed At Yorktown he would have before him the associations ot a hunJred years that buund the south and the north in the acrid memory of a common danger and common victory at Atlanta he would present the materiel interests and industrial indus-trial development which appealed to the thrift and independence of every household house-hold andjwhich should unite the two sections by the instinct of self interest and self defense ut Cbattaooo he would revive the memories of the war oly to show that after all its disaster and its sufferingthe country was stronger and greater the Union rendered indissoluble indis-soluble and the future through the agony and blood of one generation made brighter and betttr for all Garfields ambition for the success of his administration adminis-tration was high With strong caution and conservatism in his nature he was in no danger of attempting rash experi ments or O of resorting lo the empirism of elatebinanship but he believed that renewed and close attention should be given to questions affecting the material interests and commercial l prospects of fifty million of people He believed that our continent l relations extensive ana developed as they ate involved responsibility respon-sibility and could be cultivated in profitable profi-table friendship or be abandoned to harmful indifference or lasting enmity He believed with equal confidence that an essential forerunner to a new ora of national na-tional progress must be a feeling of contentment con-tentment in every section of the Union and a general belief that the benefits and burdens of the government would be common to all Himself a conspicuous con-spicuous illustration of what ability and ambition may be under republican institutions He loved his country with a passion of patriotic devotion and every waking thought was given to her advancement ad-vancement Be was an American in all his aspirations and he loved to viewthe destiny end influence of the United States with the philosophical composure of Jefferson and the demonstrative confidence of John Adams The political events which disturbed the Presidents serenity for many weeks before that fateful day in July form an important chapter in his career and in his own judgement involved matters of principle which are vitality essential to the Constitutional administration of the federal government It would be out of I place here and now to speak the language jf controversy but the events referred to however they may continue to be a source of contention with others have become EO far as Garfield h concerned as much a matter of history as his heroism Rt ChScldnaugu or his illustrious ser vic in the Howe Detail is not needed and personal antagonism shall not be rekindled re-kindled by any word uttered today The I motives of those opposing him are not to be here adversely interpreted nor their course harshly characterized but cf the dead President this is to be said and said because his own speech h i forever for-ever silenced and he can be no more heard except through the fidelity and love of surviving friends From the beginning be-ginning to the end of the controversy so much deplored the President wa never for one moment actuated by the motive of gain to himself or loss to others Leapt of all did harbor revenge RarH did he ever show resentment and roalace wa not in his nature He VMS con nnially employed only in the exchange < f god offices and the doing of kindly df di There wag not an hour from the beginning begin-ning of the trouble until the fatal tbo entered his body when the President J lot y woud not gladly for the sake of restoring I restor-ing harmony have retraced any step he had taken if such retracing had merely involved consequences personal I to himself The pride of consistency or any suppoied sense of humiliation that might result from surrendering his position posi-tion had not a feathers weight with him No man was loss subject to such influences influ-ences from within or without but aftermost after-most anxious deliberation and the coolest cool-est survey of all tliecircumsianceg he solemnly believed that the true preregH tivea of the executive were ivolv ci in the issue i which had been raised and that he would b3 unfaithful to his supreme su-preme obligation itghe failed to maintain in nil their vigor the constitution right and dignities of the great office He believed be-lieved this in all the convictions of conscience con-science when in sound Mid vigorous health and he believed it in his suffering and prostration in his last conscious thought which hh wearied mind be towl < ion i-on the transitory struggles of life More than this need not be baid Jess limn this could not be said Justice to the dead the highest obligation that devolves upon the living demands the declaration de-claration that lu all thu bearings of the subject certain or possible the President was content in his mind justified in his conscience immovable in his conclusions The religious element in Garfield character was deep and earnest In his youth he choused the faith of the Disciple a sect of that great Baptit communion which in different ecclesiastical establishments is so numerous numer-ous and influential throughout all parts of the United Slate but the oroodenisg tendency of his mind and his active spirit of enquiry were early apparent and carried Dim beyond the dogmas or sect and the restraints of association In selecting a college in which to continue his ecucation he selected Bethany Though presided over by A exander Campbell the greatest preacher of his church his reasons we e characterized tint that Betbany leaned too heavily towards slavery and second that being himself a Disciple the son of Disciple parent he had little acquaintance with the people or their belief and he thought it would make him more liberal quoting his own words both in his religious re-ligious and general views to go into anew a-new circle and be under now influence influ-ence The liberal views which he anticipated as the result of wider future fut-ure were fully realized He was emau cipated from mere sectarian belief and with eager interest pushed his inv tiga tion is the direciton of modern progres sive thought He followed with quick ening step m the paths of explorations and speculation so fearlessly trodden by Darwin by Huxley by Tyndall and by other living scientists of the radical and advanced type His own church binding bind-ing its disciples by no formulated creed but accepting the Old and Hew Testaments Testa-ments as the words of God with unbiased biased liberty of private interpretation favored if it did not stimulate the spirit of investigation His iuauguraticn had been safey passed Teat trouble lay bEhind be-hind him and not before him that he wa to meet The wife whom he loved was now recovering from an illness which had lately disquited and at times almost unnerved him He was going to his alma wafer to ru ow the most cheerful Hocistic ns of his young manhood and to exchange greetings greet-ings with those with whoso dampening interest had followed every step of his upward progress from the day he entered upon his college cour a until be had at tBinoJ the loftiest position in the gift of his countrymen Sure y if happiness cun ever come from the honors or tri uraphs of this world on the quiet July morning James A Gardeld may weil have been a happy man No foreboding forebod-ing of evil haunted him not the slightest premonition of danger clouded his star his terrible fate was upon him in an instant in-stant One moment he stjod erect strong confident on the years stretching peacefully out before him the next ba lay wounded bleeding helpless doomed to weary weeks of torture to silence and the grave Great in life he was surpassingly sur-passingly great in death For no cause in the very frenzy of wantonness and wickedness by the red hand of the murderer mur-derer hs was thrust from the full tide of this worlds interest from iU hopes its aspirations its victories into the visible presence of death and he did not quail I |