The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-10-09
THE CANDIDATES.
rMErnsALrESr POINTS scoxrRAsrEp
by EDWARDS PIERREPosT.
The TralnlnE Needed for Presidcnt-
0arneid. Early struggles and Tri.
umrhs-nis Services In the
Army and in conEreas-
Hancock, the soldier.

NEw YORK, October 7.-At Q Republican
mass meeting al Cooper Institute last even.
ing,the on.Edwards Pierepont delivered
an address reviewing at length the merits
Of the two candidates for the Office Of Presi.
dent Every allusion to Gen. Garfield was
greeted with applause. Among other
things Mr.. Pierrepont said:
The chief concernment Of government
Is TO protect lie, liberty and property.
Property 10 the base OF modern society.
Its accumulation 10 the primal stimulus 10
every industrial enterprise. Its influence
has increased with Christian civilization,
which protects the possession and regu.
lates the pursuit by Just laws. He who
has not studied the science OF national
wealth and long hAbituAted his mind to
the consideration OF the questions involved
In It, Is not fitted 10 be President Of the
United States or 10 be Cabinet adviser OF
the President, however eminent be may
be as an astronomer, engineer or sculptor,
or however .'supeTb" he may have shown
himself on the battlefield.
FoTty-eIght years ago last November, In
n log cabin, some 10 milPs from Cleveland,
Ohio, James Abraham Garfield was born,
When less than two years old his father
died, leaving widow with four little chill
dren, aud pAught else but small, un-
cleared farm,
As the youngest boy grew up he showed
a love Of reading which he seemed 10 have
inherited from his mother; but from very
early years he was obliged 10 work all day
upon the farm in Summer and at carpenter
work III winter, When sixteen years old
he became driver on the tow-path Of the
canal which ran near bis house; but the
frequent wettings In the canal, the expos
ure TO the sun and the chill malarious air
Of night gave him b terrible fever, OF
which he lay III IN bis mothers house Ave
months. When he recovered, bis desire
for learning was 80 great that his mother,
with her Scanty savings, determined to
send him to the Geauga Academy.
HE HIRED A LITTLE ROOM,
and with the simple utensils whiGn his
mother gave him, he cooked his ewn food,
which cost him less than fity cents a
week. By laboripg at carpenter work
morning and evening lnd In the vacation,
and at haying and harvesting In the sum.
mer, and by leaphing school 10 winter, he
was able to study at the academy during
the spring and autumn terms, and 10 save
Il little every year with which In time he
hoped TO be able to go through college, II
he could 30 prepare as to enter ths junior
year.
AT the end OF his first twelve weeks he
went home 10 Orange, helped his brother
build q barn for their mother, aud then
worked at day wages In haying and har-
vesting. With the money thus earned he
paid oil the arrears Of his DOCTORS bills
left from his long illness. When he re.
turned 10 the academy be had but sin-
gle sixpence. Going 10 church the next
day he dropped II into the contributionl
Think you that the casting OF the poor
boys mite was not recorded above
or that all the vile ISLANDERS which envy
can invent will keep him from that place
for which the Lord raised him up2
Having spent his last penny in charity
on Sunday, he went with a brave and
trusting heart TO study and TO work on
Monday. Thus he toiled on, until he was
twenty.three years old, when with all his
seli.denial he had only half enough saved
for two years Of the most frugal college
life. His prospects were gloomy enough,
but his heart never failed and hope did
not ioraaks him. He found man who
was willing TO advance the needed balance,
provided ho would get his life insured and
assign the policy, which to the great ioyof
the young man was done, and In tho fall
Of 1854, at the age Of twenty.three, he en-
tered the junior class Of Williams College,
where he graduated In 1855 with honofs,
Soon alter he was made professor OF Greek
and Latin, and two years later President
OF Hiram College.
IN THE ARMY AND IN CONGRESS.
In 1859 he was elected to the Ohio Sen.
ate. Early in 1851 be was made Colonel
in the 42d Ohio Regimer., and soon he
had command Of a brigade. By forced
marches, he suTprised and routed the rebel
forces under Humphrey Marshall In Ken
lucky, and continued In active service
until after the battle OF Chlcamauga; for
gallant conduct In that battle he was made
q Major General. While In the field he
was elected 10 Congress, but remained In
the service some fifteen months after. lie
has been returned TO Congress from his
district at every subsequent election. In
January last he was elected to the Senate
Of the United States, receiving every vote
ot his party, compliment never before
paid 10 any Senator from the State.
After such liie-AitsT such a record OF
twenty years In tue public seryice-aiter
such long continued and never ialtering
confidence on the part oI his especially In
telligent district and the people oi his
State, 1t would seem superillous to notice
the attacks made by hostile partisans upon
his integrity.
It Is q strange fact that in q free Re-
public the man who rises TO greatness BY
bis own unAided merits Is more enyied
and reviled than he who Is lifted by family
influence and hereditary wealth.
The lie Of General Garfield Ia known
from boy to eminent manhood; II is the
earnest, honest, religious life Of a good and
able man. Have no lear that calumny will
obscure his fame or embitler his temper,
though Il may sadden his heart.
His rival for the Presidency 10 General
Winfield Scott Hancock, born In easier
life, who never cUiled bis hands with toll,
and never paid Il doctors ora t1ilor's bill,
except with money Furnished by tho Gov.
ernment, since he rntert.,i West Point at
the eye Of sixteen, precisely the age at
which Garfield, hStc. footed and haIf.clad,
commenced driving un ihe tow.path on
the canal.
TUE HANDSOME, rSsuSSED HANCOCK,
is his coInely uniform and spotless gloves
ou tho campus at West Point, and the
shoe!ess Garfield along the muddy canal,
do not look much alike, and their future
hopes would be equally unlike In any
other country thau this, where alone lib
erty and fair chance have ever been per.
milted. But In the race OF life, the tow
boy, younger by many years, has over
taken the iortunRtO cadet, though poverty
aud illness, with none TO help, retarded
the one, and powerful friends and the
Government Of the United States paid
every debt and supplied every want Of
the other.
They arc both men Of stainless lie.
Blu. the one Is q noble representative oil
tho principle Of equal fights and the
Christian civilization oil the NOrths the
other fairly represents the privileged class
Of the old SlRveholding South, 10 which
is aided a small element Oi secession SYM
pathEers in the Northern States.
General Garfield Ii . statesman ai en-
larHed views and varied experience. He
has rlsen from the people, he ieels their
sympalhies and knows their wants; un.
les they are cheated they sill llit him to
tho chief magistrpcy Of the nation.
II We were at war there Is not military
man or n civilian in the country who
would not think Il piepOsteTous TO place
Senator Thurman In command oi great
army, though no ounPrejudiced man doubts
that he Is Ons Of the ablest statesmen oi
hls party, aud no Democrat would m9kea
better President. Tho accomplished SOL
der Hancock would be Rs nnsnited 70 the
Presidency rs tho accomplished statesman
Thurman wonld be unsuiLed TO the COM
mand Of An army.
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