Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1871-03-24
GENERAL GAHFlALD.

who sees General Garfield for the tlrsI
.nne. " Ii seems as bIg as any TWO to
DC found IN the HeIghburhood." Eyes, "
lays friend. "By actual measurement
At Is Just the size OF Daniel Webster $
And how about the inside OF il r -" IL
needs different kind Of tape 10 meas
ure that; bur according TO all evidence
there are no rooms to be let unfinished
n that slzable cranlum."
lhe student of men is not satisfied
ill he has found the master-Word which
solves the problem which every success
nj career may thrust before INN. In
MS case, II seems to me that the master
word is equipolse." should say thai
General GaraeId's power IS based on
he perfect balance OF his faculties Ot
al sorts, spiritual and physical. HIS
sdrge heathful body is the organ of
.arge healthful soul and between these
wO there is perpetual treaty of peace,
JHtnslVe and defensive. SUme men III
-0ngress are devOured by a tyranIeal
Intellect that makes them lean, not only
IA flesh, but in trlendshIps. others aIt
iWayed by gross lusts that drag then
ntO the Inlre; and others by professions
md ambltions, which, though not ignO-
Die, are yet inOrdInate, and tear thell
ives TO pieces. But of Garfield SHOULD
,ay that now in his fortieth year he Is IL
,Jertect command of himself and there
ore that between thought and action.
-Ontentmenr and aspiration, there IS tht
nne equilibrium which ensures recutude,
advancement, the love OF friends, ant
ne peoples faith OF how many pub
lic men in Washington, of brillianL anG
great possibilities, must It be said
These mems lives are running L
waste !" This cannot be said of Gar
deld. No Incidence, no consuming vice,
40 fury nor feebleness has taken pos
sessIon of him to prevent his making
he most of himself. That man knows
what is inside of him. Pure-minded,
srIong-minded, alert, generous, ambl-
Ious. he means to make the most o.
lImself. And if prosperity does no
corrupt him into presumption. and b,
continues the clean soul he still is, be
will do it.
The past of so young man is chiefly
valuable as helping US TO guess what hIs
uture will be. Let us raise concernins
aim NapoleOn's famous question
What has he done p That question
cannot fully answer; but here, from th,
Congressional Directory, is the meagei
outline of an answer. Born in Ohio,
November Io. 1891, he graduated al
Williams College, 1856; was Presiden
If literary institution for several years;
studied and practiced law; was mem
Der of the Senate of Ohio in 1850 and
1860; entered the Union army in 1861
as Colonel OF the 4zd Ohio Volunteers
was promoted to the rank of BrigadieT
General was appointed Chief-of-Staff to
General Rosecrans, and was promoted
TO the rank of Major General; was elect
ID to the XXXVlIlth, XXXIXIh, and
XLth Congress, and was reelected to
he XLIst Congress, receiving 20. IS7
votes, against 9,75o votes for his antag-
onist
Few public men in Washington keep
up literary studies. General Garfield i
one of the few No one more constant
IN attendance at the Capitol than he; no
one more laborious on committees YET
he keeps abreast of current literature.
flowing no good book TO escape him.
When a long-winded and unimportant
discussion blows up in the House watch
Garfield. He IS an economist of time.
Chatting and button-holing as he goes,
he quietly glides out. passes through the
rotunda, and escapes into the Serene
realm of Mr.. Spafford, where, amid all
that amplitude of books, he regales him
self in reading and in literary converse
ton. He and Mr.. Spafford are clost
friends, and whenever a box of new
books arrives from New York or Europe
message gets to Mr.. Garfield to that
effect, and he has the first peep He Is
late student. He burns the midnight
gas. In his position-no man can study
continuously till the benign night, which
bushes the world, and sends office seek
ers and log-roIlers to bed, gives repose
TO his door-bell, and leaves him few
hours for himself Here. once more,
comes to his aid that royal health Of
his Thus Mr.. Congressman Garfield
is enabled to keep his mind freshened
by delightful letters. and to prosecute
those more rugged investigations in law.
social science. philosophy, and politics
in which the coming statesmen of Amer
ica must be experts zEtoHs Golden
Age.