The Life, Speeches and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield of OhioB. B. Russell & Company, 1880 - 356 páginas |
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... soon to start out with a canal boat , owned by his uncle , to bring coal from the mines to Cleve- land , on the Ohio Canal . Hearing of no other employment , he asked the privilege of going with the boat in some capacity . The only ...
... soon to start out with a canal boat , owned by his uncle , to bring coal from the mines to Cleve- land , on the Ohio Canal . Hearing of no other employment , he asked the privilege of going with the boat in some capacity . The only ...
Página 79
... man's heart . Mr. Bates sought the acquaintance of the Garfield family and was soon on intimate terms with James . His advice to him was clear and decided . He told him that many boys as old and as OF GENERAL JAMES A. GARFIELD . 79.
... man's heart . Mr. Bates sought the acquaintance of the Garfield family and was soon on intimate terms with James . His advice to him was clear and decided . He told him that many boys as old and as OF GENERAL JAMES A. GARFIELD . 79.
Página 80
... soon take rank with the best . It was a singular sight to see that awkward wood- chopper , fresh from the timber lands and the canal boat , pouring over a grammar or an arithmetic . With features made coarse by exposure , and pallid ...
... soon take rank with the best . It was a singular sight to see that awkward wood- chopper , fresh from the timber lands and the canal boat , pouring over a grammar or an arithmetic . With features made coarse by exposure , and pallid ...
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... soon had reason to feel proud of his achievements . His hard fare , hard work , and close application made no impression upon the hardy constitution which had been disciplined by chopping wood , planting crops , and drawing the plane ...
... soon had reason to feel proud of his achievements . His hard fare , hard work , and close application made no impression upon the hardy constitution which had been disciplined by chopping wood , planting crops , and drawing the plane ...
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... . On the opening day , eighty - four students were in attendance , and soon the number rose to two or three hundred per term . Students came from a wide region of country . Ohio furnished the 94 THE LIFE , SPEECHES , AND PUBLIC SERVICES.
... . On the opening day , eighty - four students were in attendance , and soon the number rose to two or three hundred per term . Students came from a wide region of country . Ohio furnished the 94 THE LIFE , SPEECHES , AND PUBLIC SERVICES.
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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.