Memorial Address on the Life and Character of James Abram Garfield: Delivered Before Both Houses of Congress, at Their Request, in the Hall of the House of RepresentativesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1882 - 18 páginas |
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... gains in the House he gains by sheer force of his own character , and if he loses and falls back he must expect no mercy , and will receive no sympathy . It is a field in which the survival of the strongest is the recognized rule , and ...
... gains in the House he gains by sheer force of his own character , and if he loses and falls back he must expect no mercy , and will receive no sympathy . It is a field in which the survival of the strongest is the recognized rule , and ...
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... gain the mastery . These characteristics , which marked Garfield as a great debater , did not , however , make him a great parliamentary leader . A parlia mentary leader , as that term is understood wherever free represent- ative ...
... gain the mastery . These characteristics , which marked Garfield as a great debater , did not , however , make him a great parliamentary leader . A parlia mentary leader , as that term is understood wherever free represent- ative ...
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... gain to himself or of loss to others . Least of all men did he harbor revenge , rarely did he even show resentment , and malice was not in his nature . He was congenially employed only in the exchange of good offices and the doing of ...
... gain to himself or of loss to others . Least of all men did he harbor revenge , rarely did he even show resentment , and malice was not in his nature . He was congenially employed only in the exchange of good offices and the doing of ...
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Página 17 - On his way to the railroad station to which he drove slowly, in conscious enjoyment of the beautiful morning, with an unwonted sense of leisure and a keen anticipation of pleasure, his talk was all in the grateful and gratulatory vein. He felt that after four months of trial his administration was strong in its grasp of affairs, strong in popular favor and destined to grow stronger ; that grave difficulties confronting him at his inauguration had been safely passed; that trouble lay behind him and...
Página 17 - Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death. For no cause, in the very frenzy of wantonness and wickedness, by the red hand of murder, he was thrust from the full tide of this world's interest — from its hopes, its aspirations, its victories, into the visible presence of death, and he did not quail.
Página 18 - ... its restless waves, rolling shoreward to break and die beneath the noonday sun ; on the red clouds of evening, arching low to the horizon ; on the serene and shining pathway of the stars. Let us think that his dying eyes read a mystic meaning which only the rapt and parting soul may know.
Página 4 - Hampshire, at a period so early that, when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney, and curled over the frozen hills, there was no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada.
Página 17 - ... one short moment in which, stunned and dazed, he could give up life, hardly aware of its relinquishment, but through days of deadly languor, through weeks of agony that was not less agony because silently borne, with clear sight and calm courage he looked into his open grave. What blight and ruin met his anguished eyes, whose lips may tell ! What brilliant, broken plans, what baffled, high ambitions, what sundering of strong, warm manhood's friendships, what bitter rending of sweet household...
Página 11 - Cabinet, and the moral power of Chase on the Bench, Andrew Johnson could not command the support of one-third in either House against the parliamentary uprising of which Thaddeus Stevens was the animating spirit and the unquestioned leader. From these three great men Garfield differed radically; differed in the quality of his mind, in temperament, in the form and phase of ambition. He could not do what they did, but he could do what they could not, and in the breadth of his Congressional work he...
Página 16 - But the broadening tendency of his mind and his active spirit of inquiry were early apparent and carried him beyond the dogmas of sect and the restraints of association. In selecting a college in which to continue his education he rejected Bethany, though presided over by Alexander Campbell, the greatest preacher of his church. His reasons were characteristic; first, that Bethany leaned too heavily...
Página 3 - England society, let him not give it the grim visage of Moloch, the brow knitted by revenge, the face black with settled hate, and the bloodshot eye emitting livid fires of malice. Let him draw, rather, a decorous, smooth-faced, bloodless demon; a picture in repose, rather than in action; not so much an example of human nature in its depravity, and in its paroxysms of crime, as an infernal being, a fiend, in the ordinary display and development of his character.
Página 12 - Garfield's nomination to the Presidency, while not predicted or anticipated, was not a surprise to the country. His prominence in Congress, his« solid qualities, his wide reputation, strengthened by his then recent election as Senator from Ohio, kept him in the public eye as a man occupying the very highest rank among those entitled to be called statesmen. It was not mere chance that brought him this high honor. " We must,
Página 18 - Above the demoniac hiss of the assassin's bullet he heard the voice of God. With simple resignation he bowed to the divine decree.