Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-10-06

have enjoyed the right of trial by
jury; being tried by court martial he
was deprived of this great right.
Garfield held that under the cir
cumstances, the military court had
no jurisdiction,-that in the State of
Indiana the ''laws were not SILENT"
and their protection should be given
to every citizen. A writ of habeas
corpus was issued out of one of the
local courts, certified into the Feder-
al court at Washington, heard and
determined. On the hearing, Gar
field made the leading and controll-
ing argument,-the court followed
his line OF argument, adopted his
conclusions and held the military
court without jurisdiction, and dis
charged the the condemned men.
Nothing could illustrate the strength
of mind,-the resources of the law
yer or heroic character for and
the determination to sustain the con-
stitution which characterized the de-
ceased, better than this.
One of the most important or semi
official positions he ever sustained,
and one altogether too nearly forgot
ten, and by far too lightly considered
and esteemed, was that of educator.
For some considerable time he was
Professor of Latin, etc., at Hiram In
stitute and afterward for nearly four
years It's President. During his adj
ministration, that Institute obtained
wonderful popularity. Located In a
rural village, away from railroads,
telegraphs, and remote from any con-
siderable city, with curriculum
equal to any college, even the oldest
III the land its students would
eqaul, annually, the whole number
now in our own State University 8
while the methods and successes of
the instruction under that admins
tration were wonderful to the oldest
and best educators familiar with them.
Himself always abreast with the best
and most advanced thought of the
age, and having a clear perception
of the vast Importance of education
to the nation, and an ardent love for
the young and an active sympathy
for the poor, he was friend to common
schools all the machinery Of edu-
cation. He demanded, that the edu-
ton of all the youth of the land
sheaid not only be sound and thor
ough, but should be free as the air
that God gave them. To educate
the young, according to constitution
al methods. at public expense, in his
Judgment, was the clear duty Of both
the State and Federal Government.
''-sssaaffsd 4 to induce these Governments to
pcr.os n Ills high duty was life long
Toll and des..9s 9s his
The department IT GTSSssssaaIlon es'
tablished by the Federal Cor es's
about the close OF S..~ w&r.--a de.
partment the influence of which, for
good has no limit, was his child, and
fostered and supported by him. One
of the golden chains that bind Ohio
people to the dead, to-day, as strong
as any other, was forged by his ear
nest, constant, cordial and intelligent
love for and interest in the common
schools free and thorough educa-
ton for all the people of both State
and nation.
As an orator the s'Dead of Men
tori was peerless in his age. That
this will be the recorded judgment OF
American history 1 can have no
doubt. His, was commanding pres
ence,-hls voice clear, resonant and
under perfect management always
self-possessed, his mind worked with
all the ease,-strength,- grace and
regularity of the most powerful yet
delicate machinery,-his fancy was
grand,-liyely and poetical, but
controlled by a refined taste and
sound judgment; while he possessed
almost infinite knowledge Of human
nature and the nobler and better mo-
tives which move and dictate human
conduct and action; as we'll fund of
general knowledge, exceeded by
none, with a taultless memory, and
a recollection that never failed him,
and a command of classic English,
which he always used as the vehicles
for his thoughts, and which were as
clear always "as an idea;' with a
logic compact and inexorable as that
of mathematics; and over all and
above all, a heart bubbling up, full,
yelling over with human love-love
for all. Such as he, indeed, could
not be less than great orator, and
one, by his oratory, commanded al.
most and unlimited infiuedce.
As to his methods, as an advocate,
let his argument in the Milligan case
be taken for an example, of his
Congressional efforts the world is as
familiar as 1, and nothing further i.
needed.
To appreciate his power as popu
lar orator, one would desire to heal
him on the ''stump," when some ex'
citing campaign was in progress, the
result of which, in his judgment, in
volved some principle, as distin
guished from accident where RICH
was at stake constitutional lib
erty jeopardized or the real honol
of the government was chiefly con
cerned. Or, in former years, before
official burdens fell so heavily upoI
him, when, of Sabbath, in some an
cient grove upon theWestern Reserv'
his old, his only home, on SOM
one of those grand annual gathering
of the church of which be was mem
ber and Bishop, when he undertool
to explain. illustrate and enforc
some one of the grand truths of hi
religion and "vindicate the ways Q
God to men, On such occasions a
these, where tens of thousands of tn
elite of the State would come to hea
him, he would show his full power
and seem to be one of the Goods
7 Perhaps, on no one occasion, di
any effort of his attract more atter
tion from the scholar and true pat
riot, than short speech made q
Louisville. KY, just before the wal
I think it was in the winter of 1855
60;-(it may have been the wlnte
3 of lS6O-6l, the record is not now 8
my command,) the legislatures {
Kentucky and Ohio, or at least th