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 - 18페이지 |
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... service , and had within his own breast the largest confidence of success in the wider field which his new rank opened to him . Balancing the arguments on the 1 one side and the other , anxious to determine MEMORIAL ADDRESS . 7.
... service , and had within his own breast the largest confidence of success in the wider field which his new rank opened to him . Balancing the arguments on the 1 one side and the other , anxious to determine MEMORIAL ADDRESS . 7.
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... confidence , and slow to withdraw it , they were at once the most helpful 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 ...
... confidence , and slow to withdraw it , they were at once the most helpful 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 ...
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... confidence of one who belonged there . The House was crowded with strong men of both parties ; nineteen of them have since been transferred to the Senate , and many of them have served with distinction in the gubernatorial chairs of ...
... confidence of one who belonged there . The House was crowded with strong men of both parties ; nineteen of them have since been transferred to the Senate , and many of them have served with distinction in the gubernatorial chairs of ...
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... ? Under it all he was calm , and strong , and confident ; never lost his self - possession , did no unwise act , spoke no hasty , or ill - considered word . Indeed nothing in his whole life is more 12 MEMORIAL ADDRESS .
... ? Under it all he was calm , and strong , and confident ; never lost his self - possession , did no unwise act , spoke no hasty , or ill - considered word . Indeed nothing in his whole life is more 12 MEMORIAL ADDRESS .
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... confidence that an essential forerun- ner to a new era of national progress must be a feeling of content- ment in every section of the Union , and a generous belief that the benefits and burdens of government would be common to all ...
... confidence that an essential forerun- ner to a new era of national progress must be a feeling of content- ment in every section of the Union , and a generous belief that the benefits and burdens of government would be common to all ...
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17 페이지 - 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...
17 페이지 - 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.
18 페이지 - ... 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.
4 페이지 - 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.
17 페이지 - ... 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...
11 페이지 - 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...
16 페이지 - 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...
3 페이지 - 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.
12 페이지 - 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,
18 페이지 - Above the demoniac hiss of the assassin's bullet he heard the voice of God. With simple resignation he bowed to the divine decree.