The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-11-04 00:00:00

GENERAL GARFIELD.

Proflent Garfield was the 'object of an Intereatiog
Lactate delivered on Thureday pani dir in the Cuogre•
gas 'octal Schoolroom by tin Row. W. le Taylor. The
char woe taken by Mr. J. Bannermen, R.N., aud
the room wee well filled. After a few remarks on
pereevoranoe, the lecturer pr iceeded to say It ir • notable feature of •ruericea public life that the
highiat oMoe of Siete are open to ulf,nede men, The
Presilent's chair boa on more than one ociailou been
filled by men who Lave risen from bumble rircunoteoco,
sad who have not fund t 3 admit the Povertr and
*cosmos. of their early life. Sod Proddost Garfield
himself "Thor. is n 3 American boy, however poor, bow.
•ver bush* orph en though be may be, that If he hey.
a clear heed, a true hurt, and a arrottg arm, may not
id. through all the grader of moiety, en I become the mown,
the glory, the pillar of the elate," Perhaps the President
was runs re lag hie elan ex parano• when heroes expreselon
to such •DOOttragnia word., for at that be wan odd I.
visible in the lite of Gineral Garfield, the rozial
boy who became President It is no tenor •
Matter of apaCuLattoll. but a matter of eawrle
that the success of goan la in no small measure derived
feom the racer *toes of life'. starting point not
metier-A-fact ripartanel hat taught us that II principles
a. ioculcated to youth there le sloop • Moe whoa they
yrodreate themselves. Thei j anatirms of the early life
of MOUT great Min na.a largely united in the format rn
of their character. There Is many • man brio( who
will never regret baying had to rough lit. hi, early days,
fr nuispendence of action, and dviondence upon one's
own reeources are the real molt, of nth an early
experiment. James Abram Gardell is an Illostratkut of
the prlnelplic we have spoken about He could not
b sot of tiro el bl xel, but he could Owl in • olationabiti
to Roslish liberty and liberty of conscleac 3. Treeing his
swoop hack for mato yeare we nod tbst one Kiward
Garfield emigrate I to A.nenca is 1636 when so Maar
sully men end wom..n left this country to seek greater
freedom and prou rity in the New Wont. This Incident
in his life is inti.uatly c innuted woo the " Pilgrim
adore," who are Co lertly praised for th. ir ices of
r liberty. Baran law, prevent id their rem doing
in the mother r aptly, e 0 they aborted for Holland, and
eastwards to Neer Eogland. grave men ; N 3 lover of
religious liberty can afford t forget toe Mayflower with
Its potions corm which started from Piro cuib September
6tl, IMO, arrivint in 63 dap, Dumber SO h, 100, on thv
wren coast of Mauschnoitte at a spot agouti icy them
Plonooth, in memory of the last sort of Culla& roil
touched by them. Brave pilgrim father. ! Worthy
motives character:Pl them in going to No • E'llittot
All they asked for ow, In the words of Mr. litmus,
" Freedom to worship God.' Said one of them, named
John W,nthroye, "1 shall call that my c Amoy where I
may most glorify God and enjoy the preeonce of my
dewed friends." President Cierebld deuiesadol from rub
• woethr suciettry, and we do not wonder dot he was
thou:Wised by IV/MUM of soul, by • breadth of feeling,
which made him uteenied through every gnat. of Ida
Jame• Abram, or Jimmy. ash. we, fembierly called, was
bra Somber 19 h, IMI. H. prelate ware per, and
n drat married lock up th.ir .1,4. 1, a log croon at
Newbury, our Mainland. A. farm., 10 a small way the
obrir was progruong reyonreldy, when • sad calamity
°pita:oh them. One day terribl• news canoe to them.
Sod • messenger—" The for. at la on fire I wo forest is on
are r The report wee true, and the farmer ought for
a rem vly. Wall the help of Its wife sot child•ee he
erected • dyke of froth earth between hie dads and the
approaching are. cad thus Owed 111 ravage* on their
(am. Afterwards, whilst roping on a block of wood, I
the halms seadS whisk sollist in kb Usti Ills