St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-10-01

/ lUtt cuttE%. Ip dressed ,,tYi-,f,- ,,y,.,
OF rotd-brjUmeI >i,uch hat, and stnnt
pJp!t, ate hc1"ttIr. cared NOTHING lrlIvuri
oi!' HElhs, Wa; tnorau ,hIy ten crate in ir
respects sIEe II Ma, -. Draa-Worl ant, ,tn
'9t11 u MS "Iie IA Ell. tt,i ana very ia. j
oi NJ country home Ali.i.s lnrN l.. WI
genial, aHpfpa"a"!5Is. en- )suoAu' lie. 4l, a
iehl'fNtbiy ealert tin'uG l:tjlz"r.
and th" stlHItljns ii 4 Iuyias home circle.
fnr Young cpll,Nc 15z,slg,l'.a rait i, r. r.f
/ laSc lTohtin@ on The c0iirr ctfnUu$ and be-
{ III Their Weade lie poor an il u!.,t,.. Du.
WIN urtf" he ir'~.
IN ISM the College !'ro<i lent was q cto.i
! 70 'Ae State senate from the C,unlics IF
| Forage and >>l;n'njf. H. did not r->i =. hi.
Presidency, b'rl''Se he looked uuon 4 tnw
! months iii tn" i.t@I>ttGra a. N epi~od. nyf
likely t. chang til" co';;.-a Of hi life. Ear
the war came t'a,tar b., pIan>. Duriu%tne
winter OF 1851 he WIS aa'ive i'll the pas -age
/ OF measures Tor armiu- lie stale militia.
all't Ms el0t icHr2 AL "IIrrsE made hHG 4
conspicuous lead I ~ The Union party
EaF!y III the s'lin'nef "t 1851 h2 VS. elected
eoi'hel OF an n'anttI regiment (tl1 Ifortg-
secohd) raised III Northern Ohio, may Of
tae soldiers III winch had been i t,laat~ at
itlram. lie TOOK the ne.d in Eu~t'rn Ken
lucky, was soon put Ill comm md Of . brig
a1t, ana, pT making one OF thc hardest
lh1rches ever mate by recruit., surprised
ani routed he Confederate force, under
Humphrey Marshall At i'IketoH.
From Eastern Knntu XIV General G,rfalrf
was transferred to Louisville. and er,in
that Place fastened to inin tne army of Gen.
eral Buell., which he reached win hi, hr;4r-
ade in time to p4ri"iDate in tn, second
DAYS fighting at Pittsburgh Ian ling. He
took part in the siege Of C0rinth
and in the operations along tbs
Memphis & GARRISON R4i'roel. In
january. 1853. he was appointed Chief of
Staff OF the Army of the Cnmba4., uni. and
bore prominent share in all The clmpairns
in Middle Tennessee. IN The sUrin.r an / .upl-
mer Of that year. lis ta~t & ,n>fjirloa, mil
itaIy service was at Tie b:,1tt, OF Chicken
manga For h ) conflict in that battle he
was prnm red t., a Mai ~ Gen ,raI<!iip. Il
is said that he wrote ali the orders given To
the army that d ", and submitted Them tn
General RoSecran> for approved. save one.
The one he tii4 not write was tn. fa-1l0r!er
to General Wood, watch was SO w0rlad a.
not to correctly convey he ,1aani,,r Of tho
commanding General, AMI which caused the
destruction OF the rigat wing % the army.
me Congressional district in which Gar
neid tiVed was the one iou" made fam 'us by
Joshua H. Giddings. The oil anti-SIavery
ciihploh grew careless OF the arts OF poll
Ties towards the end OF his career. and came
to took upon nomination and recollection
as matter OF course. His OrercOnidrnce
was taken adVautage OF in 1888 by an ambi-
Isous lawyer named Hutchin> to carry a con-
vention against MIN. The friends of Gid
dlh@s never 1orTaye HutchjnS, and cast
about for means of defeating him. The
DID man himself was comfortably quartered
ID his Consulate at Montreal, aud did not
ARE 10 make night % get back to Con-
5ress. So MS supporters made use Of the
popularity OF Garfield and nominated him
Enlle he was in the field without asking his
consent. That was III 1862. When he heard
raf ri or hat
you'd be fifteen months before the Con-
sress would meet to which he would be
ERECTED, ail Believing As did every one
Use, that the war could not possibly last 2
ear longer, concluded to accept. He often
regret that he did not help fight
he war through, and said that he never
you'd have left the army to 90 to Congress
lad ne foreseen thatthe struggle would con-
lnue beyond the year 1863. He continued
us military service up to the time Congress
net.
On entering Congress. in Dece,aber. 1859.
ieneral Garfield was placed mon the Com,
aittee on Military Aff,irS win Srhenck and
Farnsworth, who were also fresh from the
ED. He took an active part in the debates
f the House. and won a rerooniion which
ew new members s,lcceed in fraininp lie
vas not popular among his fellow members
turing his first term They thought him
omething of a pedant because he sometimes
moved his scholarship in his speeches, and
ley were jealous Of his prominence. His
bid attainments and able social qualities
nabied him to overcome this prejudice dur
ls his second term. and he became on terms,
| CLOSE friendship with the best men in both
louses. His committee service during his
eeond term was on the Ways and Means,
..hich was quite to his taste, for it gave
lm an opportunity to prosecute the studies
|, finance and political economy, which
had always felt a fonlness for.
e was hard worker and Il great
,ader in those DAYS, going home with his
rms full OF books from the Congressional
library ana s't,lng up late nights 20 read
ieh. Ii was theh mat he land the fonnda-
oh 1 u 'tne cohVle'loas on the SUBJECT OF
atiohai linanca winch he mas since ned SO
tmly anna all the storms 81 political agita-
on. lie was renom!aa Il in 1864, without
,i hsI, nsll N 1870 Mr. Hu,chln>' whom