It has liberated the master as well as the slave from a relation which wronged and enfeebled both. Garfield attempted to select a Cabinet that would retain the unity of the Republican Party . However, Roscoe Conking , the leader of the Stalwart group, was unhappy with some of Garfield's choices and refused to serve in his administration. Chester Arthur is now the president of the United States. I do not now see any way this side a miracle of God which can avoid a civil war with all its attendant horrors.
Peaceable dissolution is utterly impossible.
Indeed, I cannot say as I would wish it possible. To make the concessions demanded by the South would be hypocritical and sinful. They would neither be obeyed nor respected. James Garfield met Abraham Lincoln for the first time in 1861. On the whole I am greatly pleased with the man.