The Life, Speeches and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield of OhioB. B. Russell & Company, 1880 - 356 páginas |
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... testimony of those for whom he labored in field and shop , woodland and school- room during his vacations , and when the strongest temptations which ever beset a young man urged him to slight his work and obtain money without giving an ...
... testimony of those for whom he labored in field and shop , woodland and school- room during his vacations , and when the strongest temptations which ever beset a young man urged him to slight his work and obtain money without giving an ...
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... TESTIMONY OF STUDENTS . WITH MISS LUCRETIA RUDOLPH . —HIS SPEECH AT HIRAM . ― ------ MARRIAGE ON his return home Mr. Garfield was received with great joy by all his friends . The founders and supporters of Hiram College had already laid ...
... TESTIMONY OF STUDENTS . WITH MISS LUCRETIA RUDOLPH . —HIS SPEECH AT HIRAM . ― ------ MARRIAGE ON his return home Mr. Garfield was received with great joy by all his friends . The founders and supporters of Hiram College had already laid ...
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... testimony to the high estimate made of him in 1863 , the most conservative writer must be aston- ished at the ability displayed by him . It will also appear , that while the fact that the Secretary of War was from Ohio , and might be ...
... testimony to the high estimate made of him in 1863 , the most conservative writer must be aston- ished at the ability displayed by him . It will also appear , that while the fact that the Secretary of War was from Ohio , and might be ...
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... testimony to General Gar- field's soldierly qualities and said : " To Brigadier - General James A. Garfield , chief of staff . I am especially indebted for the clear and ready manner in which he seized the points of action and movement ...
... testimony to General Gar- field's soldierly qualities and said : " To Brigadier - General James A. Garfield , chief of staff . I am especially indebted for the clear and ready manner in which he seized the points of action and movement ...
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... to be pernicious and wrong . He was given a place at once , upon his entry into Congress , on the very important committee on mil . itary affairs . His colleagues bear testimony to his activity. OF GENERAL JAMES A. GARFIELD . 191.
... to be pernicious and wrong . He was given a place at once , upon his entry into Congress , on the very important committee on mil . itary affairs . His colleagues bear testimony to his activity. OF GENERAL JAMES A. GARFIELD . 191.
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Página 214 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Página 226 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Página 218 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire...
Página 228 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause; and I shall do more whenever I believe doing more will help the cause.
Página 226 - I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Página 219 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Página 331 - ... upon the party in power. Without such restraint party rule becomes tyrannical and corrupt. The prosperity which is made possible in the South, by its great advantages of soil and climate, will never be realized until every voter can freely and safely support any party he pleases. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.
Página 228 - What I do about Slavery and the Colored Race, I do because I believe it helps to save...
Página 328 - Republican firesides, where the thoughtful fathers, with wives and children about them, with the calm thoughts inspired by love of home and...
Página 227 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.