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13 k k] £ % = 2 1 ively influenced by the advice of President Lincoln and Secretary Stanton, both of whom assured him that he could, at that time, be of es- pecial value in the house of represen. tatives. He resigned his commission of major-general on the Gth day of December, 1863, and took his seat in the house of representatives on the 7th. He had served two years and four months in the army, and had just completed his thirty-second year. THE CONGRESSMAN, The Thirty-eighth congress is pro- eminently entitled in history to the designation of the war congress, It was elected while the war was flagrant, and every member was chosen upon the issues involved in the continu- ance of the struggle. The .Thirty- seventh congress had, indeed, legis- lated to a large extent on war meas- ures, but it was chosen before any one believed that secession of the states would be actually attempted. The magnitude of the work which fell upon its successor] was unprecedented, both in respect to the vast sums of money raised for the support of the army and navy, and of the new and extraordinary powers of legislation which it was forced to exercise, y twenty-four staces were represented, and one hundred and eighty-two members were upon its roll. Among these: were many distinguished party leaders on both sides, veterans in the public service, with established repu- tations for ability, and with that skill which comes only from parliamentary experience. Into this assemblage of men Garfield entered without special proparation, and it might also be said unsxpectedly. . The question of tak: ing command of a division of troops under General Thomas, or hl(in;{ his seat in congress was kept open till the last moment, so late, indeed, that the resignation of his military commis- sion and his appeatance in the house were almost contemporaneous. He wore the uniform of a major-general of the United States army on Satur- day, and on Monday in civiiian's dress, he answered to the roll-call as a representative in congress from the State of Ohio, He was especially fortunate in the constituency which elected him. De- scended almost entirely from Now England stock, the men of the Ashta. bula district were intensly radical on all questions relating to human rights. Well educated. thrifty, thoroughly intelligent in affairs, acutely discern- ing character, not quick to bestow confidence, and slow to withdraw it; they were at once the most hupului and most exacting of supporters. Their tenacious trust in men in whom they have once confided is illustrated by the unparalleled ;fact that Elisha Whittlesey, Joshua R. Giddings, and James A. Garfield represonted tho dis- trict for fifty-four years. There is no test of a man’s ability iu any department of public life more severe than service in the house of representatives; there is no plncu where so little deference is paid to reputation previously acquired, or to eminence won outside: no place where 80 little consideration is shown for the feelings or the failures of beginners, ‘What & man gains in the house he gains by sheer force of his own char- aoter, and if he loses and falls back he must expect no mercy, and will re- ceive no lyl‘llplfllj. 1t is a field in which the survival of the strongest is the recognized rule, and where no pre- tense can deceive and no sl;:qr oan i man is di vufi ‘weighed,, With, pousibly a single excepti Wil ingle exception Garfield was the youngest in the house when he entered, and was but soven years from his college gradua- tion. But he had not been in his seat sixty-days before his ability was rec- ognized and his place conceded. HE STEPPED TO THE FRONT with the confidence of one who be- longed there. The house was crowded with strong men of both parties; nine- teen of them have since been trans- ferred to the senate, and many of them have served with distinotion in the gubernatorial chairs of their ro- spective states, and on foreign mis. sions of fran consequence; but among them all none rgmw 80 rapidly, none 'lro flrlmly "lGl:u elfl.l As is lu;‘i by ‘evelyan of hi liamentary hero, Garfield luooeedes.r“bauule all the world in concert could not haye kept him in the background, and beosuse when once in the front he filnyod his part with a prompt intrepidity and a commanding ease that were but the outward symptoms of the immense re- serves of aner. on which it was in his power to dras Indeed, the ap- parently reserved foroe which Garfield ed was one of his great charac ristios, He never did so well but that it seemed he could easily have done better. He never expended so much strength but that he seemed to be holding additional power at call. This is one of the happiest and rarest distinctions of an effective debater, and often counts for-as much in per- suading an assembly as the eloquent and elaborate argument, The great measure of Garfield’s fame was filled by his service in the house of representatives. His military life, illustrated by honorable performance, and rich in promise, was, as he him- solf felt, rematurel terminated, and necessarily incomplete. Speculation as to what ho might have done in the field, where the great prizes are so fow, cannot be profitable. It is suffi- cient to say tha as a soldier he did his duty bravely; he did it intelligent- ly; he won an enviable fame, and he retired from the service without a blot or breath agaihst him, _Asa lawyer, though admirably equipped for "the fi:nhnmn, he can muoef; be said to ve entered on its practice. The fow efforts he made at the bar were’ dis- {inguished by the same high order of talent which he exhibited on every field where he was put to tho test, and if & man may be acoepted as a compe. tent ]uifil of his capacitios and adapt- ations, the law was the profession to which Garfield should have devoted himself. But fate ordained otherwise and his reputation in history will rest largely on his service in the house of representatives. That service was ox. coptionally long. He was niffe times consecutively chosen to the house, an honor enjoyed by not more than six other representatives of the more than ?n fihfiund who h:vc; b‘rsn elected 'rom organization @ goveru- meitt to this hour, ol A5 A PARLIAMENTARY ORATOR, as o debater on an issue squarely Joined, whese the position hfl been chosen and fhe ground laid out, Gar- field must be assigned a very high rank. More, perhaps, than any man with whom he was associated in pub- lic life, he gave careful and systematic study to public questions, and he came to every discussion in which he took part with elaborate and com- plete preparation. He was a steady and indefatigable worker. Those who imagine that talent or genius can supply the place or achieve the results of labor will find no encouragement . Garfield's life, In preliminary work he was apt, rapid and skillfal. He possessed in a high degree the power of roadily absorbing ideas and facts, and like Dr. Johnson, had the art of getting from a book all that was of value in it by a reading appar- ently 80 quick and cursory that it woemed like a mere glance at the ta- ble of content.. He was a pro-emi- nently fair and candid man in debate, took no petty advantage, stooped to 1o unworthy mothods, avoided perso- nal allusions, rarely appealed to preju- dico, did not seek to flame passion. Ho had & quicker oye for the strong point of his adversary than for his weak point, and on his own side he so marshaled his weighty arguments as w amke his hearors to forgot any possible lack in the complete strength of his position. He had a habit of stating his opponent’s side with such amplitude of fairness and such liber- ality of concession that his followers often complainod that he was giving his case away. But never in his pro- longed participation in the proceed- ings of tho house did he give his case away, or fail in the judgment of com- petent and impartial listeners to gain the mastery. NOT A PARLIAMENTARY LEADER. These characteristics, which marked Garfield as a great debater, did not, however, make him a great parlia- mentary leader. A parliamentary leader, as that term is understood wherever free representative govern- ment exists, is necessarily and very strictly the organ of his party. An ardent American defined the in- stinctive warmth of patriotism when he offered the toast, ‘“Our country, always right, but right or wrong, our country.” The fmrliuumnhry eader who has a body of followers that will do and dare and die for the cause, is one who believes his party always right, but right or wrong, is for his party. No more important or exact- ing duty devolves upon him than the selection of the field and the time for contest. He must know not merely how to atrike, but where to strike and when to strike. He often skillfull avoids the strength of his opponent’s position and scatters confusion in his ranks by attacking an exposed point when really the righteousness of the causo and the atrength of logical in- trenchment are against him. He con- quers often both against the right and the heavy battalions; as when young Charles ¥ox, in the days of his tory- ism, carvied the house of commons against justice, against its immemorial rights, against his own convictions, it indeed at that pericd Fox had convic- tions, and in the interest of a corrupt administration, in obedience to a ty- rannical sovereign, drove Wilkes from the seat to which the electors of Mid- dlesex had chosen him and installed Luttrell in defiance, not merely of law but of public decency. For an achievement of that kind Garfield was disqualified—-disqualifiad, by the tex. ture of his mind, by the honesty of his heart, by his_conscience, and by overy instinot and aspiration of his nature. v COMPARIBONS, The three most distinguished par- liamentary leaders hitherto developed in this country are Mr. Clay, Mr. Douglas, and Mr. Thaddeus flybevenu. Each was & man of consummate abil- ity, of great earnestness, of intense rerlomhcy, differing widely, each rom the others, and yet with a signal trait in common—the power to com- mand, Inthe glilva and take of daily discussion, in the art of controlling and consolidating reluctant and re- fractory followers; in the skill to uver- come all forms of opposition, and to meet with competency and coutage the yarying phases of unlooked for asspult or unsuspected defection, it would de difficult to rank with these a fourth namein all our congressional history. But of these Mr. Clay was the greatest. It would, perhaps, be impossible to find in the parliamen- tary annals of the world a parallel to Mr. Olay, in 1841, when at sixty-four yeara of age he took the control of the whig party from the president who had received their sufirages, against the power of Webster in the cabinet, ainst the eloquence of Choate in tho senate, against the Herculean ef- forts of Oaleb Cushing and Henry A. Wise in the house. Ii unshared lead- orship, in the pride and plenitude of power he hurled’ against John Tyler with deepest scorn the mass of that conquering column which had swept over the land in 1840, and drove his adminstration to seek shelter behind the lines of his political foes, Mr, Douglas achieved a victory scarcely less wonderful when, in 1854, against the secret desires of a strong admin- istration, against the wise counsel of the older chiefs, lflhlll the conserva- tive instincts and even the moral sense of the country, he forced a re- lughnt songress into a repeal of the Missouri compromise. Mr, Thaddeus Btevens, in his contests from 1865 to 1868 actually advanced his parliamen- tary loadership until congress tied the hands of the president and gov- erned the country by its own will, leaving only perfunctory duties to be discharged by the executive With two hundred millions of patronage in his hands at the opening of the con- test, aided by the active force of Seward in the cabinet and the moral power of Chase on the bench, An- drew Johnson could not command the support of one-third in either house against the rlismentary up- mtu{gh of which Thaddeus Stevens was the animating spirit and the un- .lu:-fiunadil lem:;;! i _ From these three great men Gar. field differed radically, diffored in the quality of his mind, in temperament, in the form and phase of ambition. He could not do what they did, but D6 could do what they could not, and in the breadth of his con, ional work he left that which wfll longer exert a potential influence among en, spd which, wensured by the severo test of posthumous criticism, will so- cure a more enduring and more envia- ble fame, Y CONGRESSIONAL LABORY, Those unfamiliar with Gaztield’s in- dustry, and ignorant of the details of his work, may, in some degree, meas- are them by the annals of congress. No one of the generation ef public men to which he belonged has eontrib- uted so much that wiil be valuable for future reference. His s numerous, many of them of them wéll studied, carefully phrased, and exhaustive of thesubject under consideration. COollected from the scattered pages of ninety royal oc- tavo volumes of Congressional Record, they would present an invaluable com- pendium of the political history of the political history of the most im- portant era through which the nation- al government has ever passed. When the history of this period shall be im- partially written, when war legisla- tion, measures of reconstruction, pro- tection of human rights, amendments to the constitution, maintenance of public credit, steps toward specio re- sumption, true theories of revenuo may be reviewed, unsurrounded by prejudice and disconnected from par- tizanism, the speeches of Gartield will be estimated at their true value, and will be found to comprise a vast maga- |1 zine of fact and argument, of clear an- alys1s and sound conclusion, Indeed, if no other authority were accessible, his speeches in the house of represen, tatives from December, 1863, to June, 1880, would give a well connscted his- tory and complete defense of the im- portant legislation of the seventeen evertful yoars that constitute his par- liamentary life. Far beyond that his apeeches would be found to forecast many great megsures, yet to be com pleted —measures which ke knew were beyond the public opinion of the hour, but which he confidently believed would secure popular approval within the period of his own lifetime, and by the aid of his own efforts. Differing, as Garfield does, from the brilliant parliamentary leaders, it is not easy to find his counterpart any- where in the record of American pul lic life. He perhaps more nearly re- sembles Mr. Seward in his supreme faith in the all-conquering power of a principle. 11 had the love of learn- ing, and the patient industry of in- vestigation, to which John Quincy Adams owes his prominence and his presidency. He had some of those ponderous elements of mind which distinguished Mr. Webster, and which, indeed, in all our public life have left the yreat Massachusetts sen- ator without an intellectual peer. In the English parliamentary histo- ry, a8 in our own, the leaders in the house of commons present points of essential difference from Garfield. But some of his methods recall the best features in the strong, independ- ent course of Sir Robert Peel, and striking resemblances are discernible in that most promising of modern conservatives, who died too early for his country and his fame, the Lord George Bentinck. He had all’ of Burke's love for the sublime and the beautiful, with, possibly, something of hie superabundance; and in his faith and his magnanimity, in his power of statoment, in his subtle analysis, in his faultless logic, in his love of literature, in his wealth and world of illustration, one is reminded of that great Huglish statesman of to- day, who, confronted with obatacles that would d.unt any but the daunt- less, reviled by those whom he would relieve as bitterly as by those whose supposed righus fw is forced to invade, still labors with serene courage for the amelioration of Ireland, and for the honor of the English name. HIS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY. Garfield’s nomination to the presi- dency, while not predicted or antici- pated, was not a surprise to the coun- tr{. His prominence in congress, his solid qualifies, his wide reputation, strengthened by his then recent elec- tion as senator from Ohio,kept him in the public eye as a man occupying the very highest rank among those enti- tled to be called statesmen. It was not mere chance that brought him this high honor. “We must,” says Mr. Emerson, ‘‘reckon success a con- stitutional trait. If Eric is in robust health aud has slept well and is at the t.og of his condition, and thirty years old at his departure from Greenland, he will steer west and his ships will reach New Foundland. But take Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man and the Jships will sail six hun- dred, one thousand, fifteen hundred miles farther and reach Labrador and New England. There is no chancp in results,” As candidate, Garfield steadily grew in popular favor. He was met with a storm of detraction at the ve hour of his nomination, and it con- tinued with increasing volume and momentum until the close of his vic- torious campaign: No might nor greatnesss in mortality Can_censure ‘scape; backwounding ca- lumny The whitest virtue strikes, What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue, Under it all ho was calm and strong, and confident; never lost his self-pos- session, did no unwise act, spoke no hasty, or ill-considered word, Indeed nothing in his whole life is more re- markable or some creditable then his bearing through those five tull months of vituperation--a prolonged agony of trial to a sensative man, a constant and cruel draft upon the powers of moral endurance. The great mass of these unjust imputations passed un noticed, and with the general debris of the campaign fell into oblivion. Butina few instances the iron en- tered his soul and he died with the injury unforgotten if not unfor- given, &i? sy One aspect of Garfield’s candidacy was unprecedented. Never before, in the history of partisan contests in this country, had a successful presidential candidate spoken freely nn passing events and currer’ ‘w-nes. o - ttempt anything of the ku.. scemed novel, rash, and even desperate. The older class of voters recalled the unfortunate Alabama letter, in which Mr, Clay waa supposed to have signed his polit- ical death warrant. They remember- ed also the hot tempered effusion by which General Scott lost a large share of his po‘rulnrity before his nomina- tion, and the wnfortunate speeches whioh rapidly consumed the remain- der. The younger voters had seen Mr. Greeloy in a series of vigorous and original addresses, preparing the pathway for his own defeat. Un- mindf | of these warnings, unheeding the advice of friends, Garfield spoke to large crowds as he jour: to and from New York in “A t, to & great wltitude in that city, fl' delega- tions and deputations of every kind that called at Mentor during the sum- mer and autumn, With innumerable critics, watchful and eager to catch a phrase that might be turned nto odium or ridicule, or a sentence that might be distorted to his own or his arty’s injury, Garfield did not trip or Jsie . n any ome of his seventy speeches, This seemsall the more re- markable when it is remembered that he did not write what he said, and yet spoke with such logical consecutive- n of thought and such admirable precision of phrase as to defy the acci- dent of misteport and the malignity of misrepresentation, PRESIDENTIAL PLANS, In the beginning of his pre hife Garfield’s experience did not yield him pleasure or satsfaction. The dutics that engross so large a portion of the president’s time were distaste- ful to him, and were unfavorably ccn- trasted with his legislative work, “I o been dealing all these years with idcas,” he impatiently exclaimed one “and here T am dealing only with 19, I have been heretofore treat- the fundamental principles ot nment and here I am con- sidering all day whether A or B shall be appointed to this or that office.” He was earnest- ly seeking some practical way of cor- recting the evils arising from the dis- tribution of overgrown and unwieldy patronage—evils always appreciated and often discussed by him, but whose magnitude had been more deep- ly impressed upon his'mind since his accession to the presidency. Had he lived, & comprehensive improvement in the mode of appointment and in the tenure of office would have been proposed by him, and with the aid of congress no doubt perfected, 1 But, while many of the executive duties were not grateful to him, he was assiduous and conscientious in their discharge. From the very dut- set he exhibited administrative talent of a highorder. In this respect in- deed he constantly surprised many who were most intimately associated with him in the government, and especially those who had feared that he might be lacking in the ex- ecutive faculty. His disposition of bus- iness was orderly and rapid, His power of analysis, and his skill in classification, enabled him to dispatch a vast mass of detail with singular promptness and ease. His cabinet meetings were admirably conducted. His clear presentation of official sub- jects, his well-considered suggestion of topics on which discussion was in- vited, his quick decision when all-had been heard, combined to show a thor- oughness of mental training as rare as his natural ability and his facile adap- tation to a new and enlarged field of labor. With perfect comprehension of all the inheritences of the war, with a cool calculation of the obstacles in his way, impelled always by a generous enthusiasm, Garfield conceived that much might be done by his adminis- tration towards restoring harmony be. tween the different sections of the Union. He was anxious to go south and speak to the people. As early as April he had ineffectually endeavored to arrange for a trip to Nushville, whither he had been cordially invited, and he was again disappointed a few weeks later tofind that he could not go to S8ath Carolina to attend the cen- tennial celebration of the victory of the Cowpens, But for the #utumn he definitely counted on hninil pres- lent at_three memorable . assemblies in the south, the celebratien at York- town, the opening of the cotton ex- position at Atlants, and the meeting of the army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga. He was already turn- ing over in his mind his address for each occasion, and the three taken together, he said to a friend, gave him the exact scope and verge which he needed. At \9orktown he would have before him the associations of a hundred years that bound the South and the North in the sacred memory of a common danger and a common victory. At Atlanta he would present | : the material interests and the indus- trial development which appealed to the thrift and independence of every household, and which should unite the two sections by the instinct of self-interest and self-defense. At Chattanooga he would revive memo- ries of the war only to show that after all its disaster and all its suffering the country was stronger and greater, the union rendered indissoluble, and the fature, through the agony and blood of one generation, made brighter and better for all. Garfield’s ambition for the success of his administration was high. With strong caution and conservatism in his nature, he was 1n no danger of at- tempting rash experiments or of re- sorting to the empiricism of states- manship. But he bulieved that re- newed and closer attention should be given to questions aftecting the mate- rigl interests and commercial pros- ects of fifty millions of people. He lieved that our continental relations, extensive and undeveloped as they are, involved responsibility, and could be cnltivated into profitablo friendship or be abandoned to harmful indifference or lasting enmity, He believed with equal confidence that an essential forerunner to a now era of national progress must be a fecling of contentment 1 every section of the Union, and a generous belief that the benefits and burdens of government would be common to all, Himself a conspicuous illustration of what abil- ity and ambition may do under repub- lican institutions, he loved his coun- try with a passion of patriotic devo- tiom; and every waking thought was given to her advancement, He was an Ameriean in all his aspirations, and he looked to the destiiy and in- fl of the United States with the pt 'F:]vhiu composure of J.flerson and ‘the demonstrative confidence of Johii Adams. . | THE CONFLIOT, ’l‘lg political events which disturbed the President’s serenity for many weeks before that fateful day in July, form an important chapter in his career, and, in his own judgment, in- volved questions of principle and of right which are vitally essential to the nstitutional administration of the g’adn al Government. It would be out of place here and now tospeak the language of controversy; but the events rofersed to, however they may con- tinue to be a source of contention with others, have become, so far as Gar- field is concerned, as much a matter of history as his heroism at Chicka- mauga or his illustrious service in the House. Detail is not needful, and personal antagonism shall noi be re- kindled by any word uttered to-day. The motives of those opposing him are not to be here adversely inter- preted nor their course harshly char- acterized. But of the dead president this is to be said, and because his own speech is forever silenced and he can be no more heard except through the fidelity and the love of surviving friends: From the beginning to the end of the controversy he has so much deplored, the president was never for one moment actuated by any motive of gain to himself or of loss to others. Least of Lall men did he harbor re- venge, rarely did ho ever show resent- ment, and malice was not in his na- ture, He was congenially employed only in the exchange of good offices and the doing of kindly decds, There was not an hour, from the beginning of the trouble till the fatal shot entered his body, when the Presi- dent would ot gladly, for the sake of restoring harmony, have retraced any step he had taken if such retracing had merely involved consequences personal to himself. The pride of consistency, or any supposed sense of humiliation that might result from surrenderii ¢ his position, had not a feather’s weight with him, No man was over less subject to such influences from within or from without. But af- ter most anxious deliberation and the coolest survey of all the ercumstances, he solemnly be- lieved that the true prerogatives of the executive were involved in the issue which had been raised, and that he would be uufaithful to his supreme obligatioq if he failed to maintain, in all their vigor, the constitutional rights and dignities of his great office. He believed this in all the convictions of conscience when in sound and vig- orous health, and he believed it in his suffering and prostration in the last conscious thought which his wearied mind bestowed on the transitory strug- gles of life. More than this need not be said. Less than this could not be smd. Jus- tice to the dead, the highest obliga- tion that devolves upon the living, de- mands the declaration that in all the bearings of the subject, actual or pos- sible, the president was content in his mind, justified in his conscience, im- movabfe in his conclusions. THE RELIGIOUS ELEMENT in Garfield’s character was deep and earnest. In his early youth he espoused the faith of the disciples, a sect of that great Baptist communion, which in difterent ecclesiastical estab- lishments is so numerous and 80 in- fluential throughout all parts of the United States. 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 associa- tien. In selecting a college in which to continue his education he rejected Bethany, though presided over by Alexander Campbell, the grea‘est preacher of his church. His reasons were characteristic; first, that Bethany leaned too heavily toward slavery; and second, that being himself a dis- ciple and the son of disciple parents, he had little acquaintance with peo- ple of other beliefs, and he thought it would make him more liberal, quot- ing his own words, both in his religi- ous and general views, to go intoa new circle and be under new influ- ences. The liberal tendency which he an- ticipated as the result of widerculture was fully realized. He was emanci- pated from mere sectarian belief, and with eager interest pushed his investi- gations in the direction of modern progressive thought. He followed with quickening step in the paths of exploration and speculation so fear- lessly trodden by Darwin, by Huxley, by, Tyndall, and by other living scien- tiste’of the radical and advanced type. His own church, binding its disciples by no formulated creed, but accepting the Old and New Testaments as the word of God with unbiased liberality of private interpretation, favored, if it Sid not stimulate, the spirit of in- vestigation, Its members profess with sincerity, and profess only, to be of one mind and one faith with those whe immediately followed the Master, and who were first called Christians at Antioch. But however high Garfield reasoned of “‘fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,” he was never separated from the church of the disciples in his affections and in his associations. For him 1t held the ark of the cove- nant, To him it was the gate of heaven. The world of religious belief is full of solecisms and tontradictions. A philosophic observer declares that men by the thousand will die in de- fense of a creed whose doctrines they do not comprehend and whose tenets they habitually violate. It is equall; true that men by the thouunm‘i will cling to church organizations with in- stinctive and undying hdelity when their belief in maturer years is radi- cally different from that which in- spired them as neophytes. But after this range of speculation, and this latitnde of doubt, Garfield came back always with freshness and delight to the simpler instincts of re- ligious faith, which, earliest im. planted, longest survive, ' Not many weeks before his assassination, walk- ing on the banks of the Potomae with a friend, and conversing on those topics of personal religion, concerning which noble natures have an uncon- querable reserve, he said that he found the Lord's Prayer and the sim- ple petitions learned in infancy in- fiuitely restful to him, not merely in their stated repetition, but in their casual and frequent recall as he went about the daily duties of life. Cer- tain texts of scriptures had a very strong hold en his memory and heart. Ho heard, whilo in EdivVurgh o years ago, a smivent Svuich pleaehos who prefaced his sermon with reading the eighth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, which book had been the subject of careful study with Garfield during all his religious life, He was greatly impressed by the elocution of the preacher and declared that it had imparted a now and deeper meaning to the majestic utterances of Saint Paul. He referred often in after years to that memorable service, and dwelt with exaltation of feeling upon the radiant promise and the assured hope with which the great apostle of the Gentiles was ‘‘persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other oreature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” THE CROWNING CHARACTERISTIC of General Garfield’s religious opin- fons, as, indeed, of all his opinions, waa his liberality. In all things he had charity. Tolerance was of his nature. He respected in others the qualities which he possessed himself-- sincerity of conviction and frankness of expression. With him the inquiry was not 8o much what a man believes, but does he believe it? The lines of his friendship and his confidence en- ciroled men of every creed, and men of no creed, and to the end of his life, on his ever-lengthening list of friends were to be found the names of a pious Catholic priest and of an honest minded and generous hearted free thinker, On the morning of Saturnay, July 2, the president was a con- tented and happy man - not in an or- dinary degree, but joyfully, almost boyishly happy. 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 anticipa- tion of pleasure, his talk was allin the grateful and gratulatory vem. He felt that afier tour months of trial his administration was stronz in its grasp of affairs, strong in public favor and destined to grow stronger; that grave difficulties confronting him at his - auguration had been safely passed; that trouble lay behind him and not before him; that he was soon tp meet the wife whom he loved, uow recover- ing from an illness which had but lately disquieted and at times almost unnerved him; that he was going to his Alma Mater to rcnew the most cherished associations of his young manhood, and to exchange greetings with those whose deepening interest had followed every step of his upward progress from the day he entered upon his college course until he had attained the loftiest elevation in the gift of his countrymen. Surely if happiness can ever come from the honors or triumphs of this world, on that quiet July morning James A. Garfield may well have been a happy man. No foreboding of evil haunted him; no slightest premonition of danger clouded his sky.. His terri- ble fate was upon him in an instant. One moment he stood erect, strong, confident in the years stretching peace- fully out before him. The next he lay wounded, bleeding, helpless, doomed to weary weeks of torture, to silence, and the grave. THE END OF IT ALL, Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death. For no cause, in the very frenzy of wantonness and wicked- ness, by the red hand of murder, be was thrust from the full tide of this world's interest, from its hopes, its aspirations, its victories, into the visi- ble presence of death - and he did not quail. Not alone for the one short moment 1n 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 courage, he looked into his open grave. What blight and ruia met his anguished eyes, whose lips may tell— what brilliant, broken plans, what baffled, high ambitions, what sunder- ing of strong, warm, manhood’s friendships, what bitter rending, of sweet household ties! Behind him a proud, expectant nation, a great host of friends, & cherished and happy mother, wearing the full, rich honorsof | * her early toil and tears; the wife of his youth, whose whole life lay 1n his; the little boys not yet emerged from childhood’s d ay of frolic; the fair, young daughter; the sturdy sons just springing into closet companionship, cfniming every day and every day re- warding a father’s love and care; and in his heart the eager, re'gicing power to meet all demand. efore him, desolation and great darkness! And his soul was not shaken. His coun- trymen were thrilled with 1nstant, profound and universal sympathy. Masterful in his mortal weakness, he became the centre of a nation’s love, enshrined in the prayers of a world. But all the love and all the sympathy could not share with him his suffering. He trod the wine press alone. With unfaltering front he faced death. With unfailing tenderness he took: = Aboye the demoniac|' leave of life. hiss of the assassin’s bullet he heard the voice of God. With simple resig- nation he bowed to the Divine decree As the end drew near, his early craving for the sea returned. The stately mansion of power had been to him t{e wearisome hospital of pain, and he begged to be taken from its prison walls, from its oppressive, stifling air, from its homelessness and its hopelessness. Gently, silently, the love of a great people bore the pale sufferer to the longed-for healing of the sea, to live or to die, as God should will, within sight of its heav- ing billows, within sound of its mani- fold vo ces. 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