New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-10-17

ever the opinion expressed my lecture. am, sir.
your osedent servant +. SEYMOUR HADsS.
London, Oct 3, 1880
"REMINISCENCES OF GENERAL GARFIELD
A LETTER FROM HIS OLD CHUM-INcTDENTs OF HIS
LIFE AT Schoolgirls PCRE AND MANLY CHAR
ACTER-MADNEss OF PUTTING THE SOUTH IN
POWER.
r o the Editor Of The Tribune,
SIR It is Twenty-Five years since | made
the acquaintance OF General James A. Garasii. In
August 1851, entered the Western Reserve Eclectic
Institute, at the same time he became student, and
10Y first recollection OF him IL Of broad sh0uIdered
stawart young Of twenty, dressed Ia suit o. n
lucky Jeans. ringing vigorously tue 5O0pDuni Dsl
which called morning prayers and TO the subse-
quent recitatOns Of the day. We soon becsme isss
friends and the affection and OF those early
days have deepened with the lapse Of years.
The winter Of ls51J52 he taught school az Var
rensvlle, Oaio, and at Hamden, during which ume
commenced correspondence whish has been MAIN
tgined until the present. In the spring fooTllg 20
again attended Eclectic ani during ,he summer
vacation worked at carpenter AID joiner work at
Hiram for rs cents a day and board AT the begin
ming Of the fail term OF 1852 made arrangemeat FOR
boarding ourselves. and were roon-inates Inc GLOW
ing winter he remained Hiram. bat was absent antii
the fall OF 1888, VIII re urned 9 the school. whero
he was then both sudeut aud teacher
In the spring OF 1884, took school sixteen miles
from this ctv Schraaenburg, \. j. apd the following
July when he was mis- to Wi Jams College. We
met at Butler Wayne Co., IN this STATE. where No
spent the friends, ON tue morning ~ me
stu started city We spent the On viewing De
wonders OF New-York. The Crystal Palace Ekhi D Ion
was then in progress aud spent pat or the tGre
and also visited Baruums Mus
Toward evening W. left the city l0r 5chraaienburg,
where he spent several days with and tlrn pro-
ceed-d WnllamstOwn. IL u nov twenty.
six years since | have been at SYSTEMATICALLY,
ana know not whether Mr. Cornelius Quackenhu.h.
with whom stayed, stall living but so.he WI Do
proud 10 know hat the young nian VINO spent lew
days uuder his husplabe roof m 1854 was none 0tter
than tue present candidate tor President of the United
States.
Thus from the long and intimate acquaintance OF
nearly may say that nOber man, nan
of purer heart honest and patriotic purposes
than James A. Garfield. God never made. He VIII %,
President Will exercise the duties OF Ills blgn ounce
with an unswerylng integrity and s gleness OF purpose
when will 20 heal the war-engendercl
hates of the South and sodify the Union sentiment OF
tne whole Nation. There an hour IN an Tue
dark days OF the when a rebel victory was not .
C0dsend TO the d mOcratic party. Ana now the men
who call themselves Democrats, wien speaking OF their
friends. count Hampton aud HILL ana Butler ana Ms
bIoodhounds among living, and Lee aud -tOnewah
Jackson aud WirZ among the dead; while among those
they class as mics Grant aud sh, rinan and
Suelian Garfield with the great host or th0-e WHO
in their bloody ShrOud-, tue cosby sscf
flee r. CURED 10 save the Nation. The people % no
United states Will yet place all their hopes ~ 10
hanGs Of those who lately their Ineree.s en-
tsIies - L. Il N-iN,"'
Neg York. Oct 9. 1880.