Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-24

is an entire absence of nonchalance or
worldineSS in his nature. He is never
Indifferent, never Vindictive. A base
action or ingratitude or cruelty may
make him sad, but does not provoke re-
taliatiOn, nor altar that faith in men OF
Providence which is part of his sound
stomach and athletic head. Garfield is
simple as a child to the Serpent's wis
dom he is stranger. Having no use
nor aptitude with the weapons of cOarS-
er natures, he often avoids mere dis
putes, does not go to public resorts
where men are familiar or vulgar, and
the walk from his home in Washington
to the Capitol, and an. occasional dinner
out, comprise his life. The word public
servant especially applies to him. He
has been the drudge of his State conStit-
uents, the public, the public societies,
the moral societies and of his party and
country since 1868. Aptitude for public
debate, and public affairs are associated
with a military nature in him. He is
ON a broad scale a SchoOlmaSter of the
range of Gladstone, of Agassiz, of Gal
latin. With as honest heart as ever
beat above the competitors of sordid am
bition, Gen. Garfield has yet so little of
the worldly wise in him that he is poor,
and yet has been accused of dishonesty.
He has no capacity for investment, nor
the rapid solution of wealth, nor pro-
found respect for the penny IN and ,out
of pound, and still is neither careless,
improyident nor dependent. The great
consuming passions to equal richer peo-
pie, and live finely, and extend his social
power is as foreign to him as scheming
or cheating. But he is not a suspicious
nor high mettled man, and so he is ta-
ken in sometimes, partly from his Obll-
ging, unrefusing disposition. Men VINO
were scheming imposed upon him as
upon Grant, and other crude-eyed men
of affairs. The people of his district,
who are quick to punish public venallty
or detection, heard him in his defense
in 1878, and keep him in Congress and
held up his hand, and hence he is by
their unwavering support for twenty
| five years candidate for President and a
national character. Since John Quincy
Adams no President has had Gartield's
scholarship, which is equally up to this
age of wider facts. The average Amer
lean, pursuing money all day long, is
now presented to a maIf who had invarl-
ably put the business of others above his
own, and worked for that alleged nom
descript the public-gratitude all his
| life. But he has not labOred without re-
| ward. The great nomination came to-
day to as pure and loving man as ever
| wished well of anybody and put his
shoulder to his neighbors wheel. Gar
fields big, boyish heart is panied to-
night with the weight of his obligation,
affection and responsibility. To-day, as
hundreds of kilograms come from every
where, saying kind, strong things to him
such messages as only Americans in
their rapid, good impulses pour upon a
lucky friend-he was with two vOlun-
| teer clerks il. a room opening and read
ing, and suddenly his two little boys
sent him one-little fellows at SCHOOL
and as he read it he broke down, and
! ..ried to talk, but his voice choked and
/ he could not see for tears. The clerks
! began to blubber, too, and people to
whom they afterward told 1t. This
sense of real great heart will be new to
the country, and will grow if he gets the
Presidency. His wife was one of his
scholars in Ohio. Like him, she is of Il
New England family, transplanted to
the West, pure-hearted, brave, unaS-
suming woman; the mother Of seven or
eight children, and, as he told me only
a few weeks ago, had never, by any
remark, brought him into the least trou-
BILE. while was unstampedable by any
clamor.
He is the ablest public speaker in the
country, and the most serious and i'll
structive man on the stump. His in
stincts, liberal and right; his courtesy,
noticeable in our politics; his aims, in
genius, and his piety comes by nature.
He leads farmers life, and all the re-
cess of Congress working like field
hand, and restoring his mind by resting
it. If elected, be will give a tone Of
culture ond intelligence to the Execu-
tive office it has never yet had, while he
has no pendantry in his composition,
and no conceit whatever, Gen. Garfield
may be worth $4,000, or little more
than Mr.. Lincoln when he took the Of
fee. His old mother, a genial lady, lives
in his family, and his kindness to her on
every occasion bears out the command
ment of Honor thy father and thy
mother, that thy days may be long in the
land" GATH.