Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-06-25
GARFIELD.

"Gath" In Cincinnati Enquirer
The writer has known Gen. Garfield pret-
ty well for thirteen years. He is a large,
well fed, hale, ruddy, brown bearded man,
weighing about 22O pounds, with Ohio Ger
man colorS, blue eyes, military face, erect
figure and shoulders, large back and thighs
and broad chest, and evidently bred in the
country on a farm. HIS large mouth is
full of strong teeth, his nose, chin and
brows are strongly pronounced. A large
baain, with room for play OF thought and
long application, rises high above his clear,
discerning, enjoying eyes. lie sometimes
suggests country SaInson-strong beyond
his knowledge, but unregarded as a school
boy. He pays little attention to the alfec
tation by which some men manage public
opinion, and has one kind of behavior for
all callers, which is the most natural he
havior at hand. Strangers would think
him n little cold, and mentally shy. On
acquaintance lie is seen to be hearty above
everything, loving the life around him, his
family, his friends, his State, and country.
Loving sympathetic and achieving people,
and with large unprofessing sense OF the
brotherhood of workers in the fields OF pro-
gress, it was feeling OF sympathy and
the desire to impart which took him for
chief; while as in the pulpit, or on the
verge of 1t, full OF all he saw and acquired,
he painted to give it forth, after it had
passed through the Nlembic, of his mind.
Endowed with warm temperament, CO.
pous expression, large, wide seeing facal-
ties, and uperabundant health, he could
study all night and teach or lecture all
day, and it was providence that his neigh
borE discovered he was too much OF man
to conceal in the pulpit, where his dociity
and reverence had almost taken him. They
sent him to the State Legislature, where
he was when the war broke out, and
he Immediately went TO the field, where
his courage and painslaking parts, and
love of open air occupation, and perfect
freedom from self-assertion made him the
delight of Rosecrans George Fl. Thomas
successively. He would go about any work
they asked OF him, was unseldsh and en-
thusastic, and had steady, temperate hab-
its, and his large brain and his reverence
made everything novel TO him. There is
an entire absence of nonchalencc or world
illness in his nature. He is never inditfer-
ent, never vindictive. A base action or
ingrntitude or cruelty may make him sad,
but does not provoke retaliation, nor alter
that faith in men or Providence which is n
part of his sound stomach and athletic
head. Garfield IS simple as a child; to
the serpents wisdom he is n stranger. Hav-
ing no Use nor aptitude with the weapons
of coarser natures, he often avoids mere
disputes. does not go to public resorts where
men are familiar or vulgar, and the walk
from his home in Washington to the capi-
tol, and an occasional dinner out, comprise
his life. The word public servant especi
ally applies to him. He has been the
drudge OF his State constituents, the public
societies, the moral societies, mud his par
ty and country since 1868. Aptitude for
public debate and public affairs are associ-
ated with a military nature in him. lie
is on broad scale schoolmaster of the
range of Gladstone, OF Agassiz, of Gallatin.
With ms honest n heart RS ever beat above
the competitors of sordid ambition, Gen.
Garfield has so little OF the worldly wise
in him that he is poor, and yet has been
accused of dishoDes y. He has no capac
ity for Investment, nor the rapid solution
of wealth, nor profound respect for the pen
ny in and out of pound, and still is neither
careless, improvident, nor dependent. The
great consuming passion to equal richer
| people, and live timely, and extend his So
| cial power is as foreign to him Rs scheming
or cheating. But he is not a suspicious nor
a high mettled man, and so he is taken in
sometimes, partly from his obliging, nnre-
fusing disposition. Men who we're scheming
imposed upon him rs upon Grant, and other
crude eyed men Of affairs. The people Of
| his district, who are quick to punish pub
| lie venally or detection, heard him IN his
defense in 1878, ard kept him in Congress
and held up his hand, and hence he is by
their unwRyering support for twenty five
years candidate for President and a nation
al character. Since John Quincy Adams
no President has had Gar6eld's scholar
ship, which is equally up to this nge ct wi
der facts The average American pursu-
ing money all day long, is now pre-
sented to man who had invariably
put the business OF others above his
own, and worked for that alleged nom
descript-the public grautude-all his life.
But he has not labored without reward,
The great nomination came 10 day TO as
pure and loving n man as eve' wished well
OF anybody and put his sh1ulder to his
neigh boris wheel. Garfield's big, boyisli
heart is panied tonight with the weight oil
his obligation, affection, and responsibility
To-day, as hundreds OF kilograms come
from everywhere, saying, kind, strong
things to him-such messages as only
Americans in their rapid, good i'm
pulses pour upon lucky friend-he wal
with two volunteer clerks in room open
ing and reading, and suddenly his Two boy
sent him one-little fellows at school
and IA he read il he broke down and trieC
to talk, but his voice was ehoked, and b,
could not see for his tears. The clerks he
gan to blubber, too, and the people L
whom they afterward told il. This sens
: of real great heart will be new to the coun
: try, and will grow II he gets the Presiden
cy. His wife was sne OF HE scholars il
! Ohio. Like him she is OF a New Englanl
family, transplanted TO the west, pure
: hearted, brave unassnming woman; tn
, mother OF seven or eight children, and, a
he told me only few weeks ago, had ney
er, by any remark. brought him into III
, least trouble, while she was unstampedabl
b. by any clamOr.
He is the ablest public speaker in th
I country, and the most serious and instruct
7 i've man on the slump. His instincts iii
! eral and right; his cSnrtesy, noticeable |
|. our politics; his aims, Ingenious, and hi
r piety comes by nature. lie leads n farm
. era life, all the recess OF Congress workin
| INV u both Manu- "NA lNrNhiihk
e by resting it, II elected, lie will give
tone Of culture and intelligence to the e,
1 eculive Office II has never yet had, Will
( he has no pedantTy in his composition an
= no conceit whatever. Gen. Garfield ma
I bo worth $4,000, or little more than M
= Lincoln was when he took the Office. III
= old mother, n genial lady, lives in his fan
lily, and kindness TO her ON every ocensiO
y bears out the command ment Of "Honc
; thy father and thy mother, that thy day
rao - ha lono In tha land -