Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-09
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Blaine's Tribute to the Memory of Our
Murdered President.

Oied in the Hall of Representatives to do
dent. Lincoln tell at the close of a mighty
struggle IN which the passions OF men had
been deeply stirred. The tragical termina-
ton of his great lie added but another to the
heightened Sncce I-fOn of horrors which had
marked so many liutcls with the blood of the
peace, when brother had been reconciled to
brother, and when anger and hare had been
oanished from the land. Whoever shall here
after draw the portrait OF tie murderer, if he
will show it as it has been eNhibte l. whose
such example was last to have been looked
for, let him not give it the grim visage OF Mo-
loch, the brow knitted by revenge, the face
black with settled hate. lie. him draw rather
decorous, smooth faced, bloodiess demon,
ture in its dcpravity ana in its paroxysms of
crime as an internal being-a fiend in the
ordinary display and development OF his
character.
From the landing of the Pilgrims ut Ply
moUth TIL the uprising against Charles l.,
about 1000 cinigrants came from old England
t. New England. AS they came in pursuit of
intellectual freedom and ecclesiastical indie
pendence, rather than for worldly h nor and
proht the emigrn lion naturally ceased when
tiIe contest for religious liberty began in
earnest at home. The man who struck his
most efectual blow for freedom of conscience
by sailing tor the colonies in 1870 would have
been accounted deSerter tn leave in IGI9.
The opportunity had then come on the soil of
Ei,Sland for that great contest which cstab-
Nsned the authority of Parliament gave re-
HS;iouS freedom to the people sent Charles to
the block and committed to the hands of Oil
Yer Cromwell the supreme executive uuthori-
" OF England. The English eniGrati ion was
never renewed, and from these % 009 men
with small emigration from Scotland aud
France, arc descended the vast numbers who
have New England blood in their veins. In
l6S' the revocation of the edict of Nantes by
Louis NV. scattered to other countries i00. 0}0
= ProtestantS, who were among the most intel
lectual and enterprising o. French subjects;
merchants OF capital, skilled manufacturers
and handicrattsmen, superior a. the time to
all others in Europe. considerable number
OF these Huguenos French came to America,
y w n md hnr anna
honorably prominent in its history. Their
names have in large part become anglici1ed
or nave disappeared. bat their Dlood is trace
able in many of the most reputable families,
-aad their fame Is perpetuated i'll honorable
memorials and us 'tu Institutions From
these tgO sources, the English Puritan and
ti'c French HuSEcnot. came the late Presl-
dent. his father, Abram Garfield, being de
sCendc.I rom the one, and ais me. her Eliza
beth Ta'tbu, frhn the other. 1t was good
st pc> ON bosh sides none better. none Drawer,
some tr,iec. There was in it an inheritance of
courage, Of mau,incSS, of imperishable love OF
lib MY, Of undying adherence to principles.
t,"riield WAS proud OF his blood. and with as
III 'Ich satisfaction as if he were British no
s-1l"nan reading his stately ancestral cord
1T i.uT<e'S Peerage. ne spoke of m-elf rs
p Z n Il ia decent from those who woI.d not
endure the oppression of tine Stuarts, and
seventh i'll descent from the brave French
protestnnts who refused to submit o tyranny
even from the Grand MonarqUe. Gen. Car
nCid delighted TO dwell on these traits, ard
Il s:ing his only visit to En- Gland hr bu lied
n ui-cif in discovering every trace of his fore
army rolls
SITTING with a friend in the gallery of the
House of Commons one night, after long
days labor i'll .uis field OF research, he said.
with evident elatinn, that in every war in
which, for three centuries. patriots of English
blood had struck sturdy blows for onStitu-
t1nnai government and human liberty, his
&, nily he'd been represented. They were ut
II rstnn Moore, ut Naseby, at Preston, and at
81 .nmOGth, and in his own person he had bat
tied for the same great causG in the war which
preserved the Union of the United States
losing his father before he was two years old,
the early life of Garfield was one of privation
but its pc reriy hats been made indeiicately
and unjuStiy prominent. Thousands of read
ers have Imagined him as the ragged, starry
ing chill, whose reality too often greets the
Gen. Glrif"ldS infancy and youth ha none of
their de- titut on, none q. their pitifu features
appealing 20 tue tender heart AMI the open
hand Of charity. He WAS poor boy in the
same sense in which Henry Clay was q poor
boy, in which Andrew Jackson was poor
boy, in which Daniel Webster was Il poOr boy;
in the sense in which large majority Of the
eminent men ut America in past generations
have been boo" boys
Bc.or. Il great multitude of men, in a public
spccch, Mr. Webster bore this testimony: at
did not happen to me to be born il 4 log cab
born in IL log cabin, raised amid he snow
4 its of New Hampshire, at period SO early,
chimney and curled over the frozen hills
tiIcre was similar evidence of white
nlTn ; habitation between it and the settle
mcntS on the rivers of Canada. Its remains
- il exist. make to it annual visit. |
cary my children to it, to teach them the
havtiships endured by the generations who
nave gon. before them. / love to dwell on
t &C tander recollectiouS the kindred ties. the
c.u'y affections aud the touching narratives
sn:l incidents which mingle with all L know
oi his primitive family abode
9TH the requisite change of scene the same
l., rdS would aptly portray the early days of
6s,,r-fieId The poverty of the frontier, where
ali are engaged in a common Struggle, and
where common sympathy aud hearty CO
% peration tighten the burdens of each, is a
@Fncv different poverty, different in kim, diff
icrert in influence and effort. from that con
scious and humiliatng influence which is ev
every day forced to contrast Itself with neigh
boring wealth, on which it feels sense of
grinding dependence The poverty of the
Frontier is, indeed no poverty. 1t is but the
beginning of wealth, and has the boundicss
possibilities of the future always open NJ be-
xO.e it. No man ever grew up in tho agricul-
rural regions of the West, where u house rails
ing, even corn husking, is Il mater of
common interest aud iesOfulueSS, with any
other feeling than that OF - broad minded,
generous independence. This honorable in
dependence marked tue youth of Garfield as
IL marks tine youth of millions of the blood
and brains now training for the future citizen
ships and government of the republic. Garfield
" as born heir TO the land, to the title of free
f,,ider which has been the patent and pass
port of s,.lf respect with the Anglo Saxon race
ever since HenGist and Horsa landed on the
shores of England. Ills adventure on the ca
mai. i.n alternative between that and the deck
of q Lake Erie schooner, was IL farmer boys
device for earning money. just a New Eng
i:Lrd lad be s!ns possibly greater career by
sailing before the mast on cOaSting vessel
oror amerchantman bound to the further IN
dia or China seas. No manly man feels any
tsting of shame in looking back to the early
struggles with adverse circumstances, and no
Nh IN feels II wort hier pride than when he has
conquered the obstacles to his progress. But
no one of noble mold desires to be looked
upon Is having been rcpreS>ed by Il spirit OF
'zuf 'riorjtv, or as having suffered til" pangS of
poverty until relief was found n the hands of
charity. Gen. GartieldS youth presented
no hardshipS which family love and family
energy did not overcome. subjected him to no
privat ons which he did not chccrful!y accept.
and left no memories save those which were
recalled with delight and transmitted with
profit and with pride.
GarGcid's early opportunities for securing an
education were ext emcly limited, and yet
were SuffcienttO develop an intense desire to
learn. He could rad ut three years OF age,
aud eacn winter he had advantage of the dis
9erict school He read all the books to be found
within the circle of his acquaintance; some of
xbeln he got by heart. While vet in childhood
ne was n constant student of the Bible and
became familiar with its literature The dig
oity and earne-tness of speech iii his maturer
If{e gave evidence of this early training. At
rs wears OF age he was able to teach school,
and thenceforwaTd his ambition was o obtain
"a college education. To this end he bent all
in - harvest field at