The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-12-07

MENTOR, Ohio, Dec. 2.-Gen. Garfield said
to the Ohio electors to-day:
l am deeply grateful to you for this call
and for these personal and public congratu-
lations. If l was to look upon the late cam
paign and its results merely in the light of a
personal struggle and personal success, 1t
would probably be as gratifying as anything
could be in the history of politics. If my
own conduct during the campaign has in any
way been of help and strength to eur cause,
| am glad. 1t is not always an easy thing to
behave well under trying circumstances, and
if my behavior as a candidate Tor the presi-
dency has met your approval | am greatly
gratihed. But a larger subject for your con-
oratulations to the country is the triumph OF
the republican party. 1t opens the way too
vast for me to enter upon now. L venture,
however, to mention a reflection which has
occurred to me in reference to the election of
Yesterday. suppose that no political battle
ever has happened in all the course OF the con-
test since early spring which caused SO little ex-
element, and, indeed, SO little public obSer-
Walton, as the presidential election which was
held Yesterday at midday. The American
people paid but little attention to the details
of the real presidential election, and tor this
very significant reason: although you and all
the members of the electoral college had the
| absolute, constitutional and technical right to
vote for anybody you choose, and though no
written law directed or suggested your choice,
vet every American knew that the august
sovereigns of this republic, the 9,OOe,OOO
voters, early in November had pronounced
the omnipotent fiat of choice, and that the
sovereign, assuming as done that which he
had ordered to be done, entertained no douot
that his will would be implicitly obeyed oy
all the colleges in all the states. That Is the
reason why the people were so serenely qule'
Yesterday. They had never yet found al
American who had failed to keep his trust as
a presidential ~elector. From this thought
draw this lesson, that when that omIipoten'
sovereign, the American people, speaks to me
n man, and ordered him to do his duty, Tia
man rests under a solemn obligation of duty
paramount to all except those that the goo'
OF the universe might impose OH him. Yes
terday, through your votes and the votes o
others in various states OF the Onloh, IL /
nrobable that the one great political sovereign
has laid his commands Oh me. Ii he ha
done SO | ann bound by his will and his IN
spiration and purpose as fast as cetio D
bound by any consideration that thls cart
can impose on any human being. In lha
presence, therefore, | stand. unaWed by IN
majesty and authority of such III 5
far as | can interpret the best aspirations an
purposes Oh our auSd9' e'''ir'S''
to realize them. You, and those vino nav
acted with us in the years past, believe OF
sovereign loves liberty and desires tor all u
Inhabitants of the republic peace and pr"
perity under the sway Of just and equal law
Gentlemen, | thank you toI this visit, for tn
welcome, for your presence and your wore
bring, aud the hope that you have e
pressed in the arduous and great work bet"
us, that we may maiutain the standard of o.
nationality and promote that which IS @H'
and worthy in this country, and during II
coming four years we may raise just aS lar:
crops of peace, prosperity, justice, liberty AZ
culture us it is possible for forty -i!inr milo
of people to raise.