The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-02
His Domestic RelatiOns--COnsistency
of His Character.
His Last Moments..A Tranquil End.

WASHINGTON, d. c., February 2S.-Ihe
following was the speech OF Mr.. Blame de-
livered day before yesterday;
Mr. PRESIDENT: For the second time IN
this generation the great departments OF
the government of the United states are
assembled in the hall of the representatives
to do honor to the memory OF murdered
president. Lincoln fell at the close OF a
mighty struggle in which the passions OF
men had been deeply stirred. The trasical
termination of his great life added but an
other to the heightened succession oil hor-
rors which had marked so many hhtels
with the blood of the first-born. Garfield
was
SLAIN IN A DAY OF PEACE,
when brother had been reconciled to
brother, and when anger and hate
had been banishe6 from the land.
Whoever shall hereafter draw the
portrait of the murderer, if he will
show it as it has been exhibited, whose
such example was last to have been looked
for. let him not give it the grim visage OF
Moloch. the brow knitted by revenge, the
face black with settled hate. Let him draw
rather, a decorous, smooth-faced, bloodless
demon, with not so much an example Oh
human nature in its depravity and IN Its
paroxysms of crime as an internal being.
A fiend in the ordinary display and devel-
opment of his character. ~
From the landing of the Pilgrims at Ply
mouth till the uprising against Charles s L.
about 90, 900 emigrants came from ola Eng
land to New England AS they came
IN PURSUIT OF INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM
and ecclesiastical independence, rather than
for worldly honor and profit the emlgra-
ton naturally ceased when the contest Tor
religious liberty began in earnest at nome.
The man who struck his most effective blow
for freedom of conscience by salllng lor tne
colonies in 1920 would have been accounted
deserter to leave after 1910. The oppor,
tunity had then come on the soil CT gland
for that great contest which established the
authority of Parliament, gave religious
freedom to the people, sent Charles
to the block and committed lea TO tne
hands of Oliver CT4mwell inc E F%pTIemde
The English emigration was never
renewed. and from these 10000 men, with q
small emigration from Scotland and
France, are descended the vast numbers
who have
revocation of the edict of Nan
ties by Louis XIV. scatt red to other
->conptries 100000 ProtestantS, who were
among the most Intelligent and enterpris-
ing of French subjects merchants OF capt.
al, skilled manufacturers and handicrafts-
men, superior at the time to all others IN
Europe A considerable number OF these
Hupuenot French came to America. A
few landed in New England, and be-
came honorably prominent IN It's ms.
tory. Their names have in large, part
become anglcized, or. have disap-
peared, but their blood is traceable IN
many of the most reputable families, ana
their fame is perpetuated IN honorable
memorials and useful institutions. From
these two sources the English Puritan and
the French Huguenot, came the late presi-
dent,
HIS FATHER, ABRAM GARFIELD,
being descended from the one, ana MS
mother, Elizabeth Baliou, from tne othet I
IL was good stock ON both sides, none bet
ter, none drawer, none truer. There was IN
n an inheritance of courage, OF manllness,
of imperishable love of liberty, of undying
adherence to principles. CARRIED was
proud of his blood, and with as much salts
faction as ifhe were British nooierlah reau-
ing his stately ancestral record IN burke 5
Peerage. he spoke of himself as ninth In
descent from those who would not endure
the oppression of the Stuarts, and seventh
IL descent from the brave French protest.
[ants who refused to submit to tyranny even
kom the Grand Monarque. General uar-
field -z., ,.,u,
and during his only visit to England ne
busted himself in discovering every trace OF
his fore-fathers in parish registries ana on
ancient army rolls.
Sitting with q friend in the gallery OF the
house Of commons one night, after long
dsV's lalor In This field of research, he said
with evident elation, that in every war in
which for three centuries, patriots ot Eng
fish blood had struck sturdy blows for con
stitutional government and human liner y,
his family had been represented. Ihey
were at Marston Moor, at Naseby, at Pres
ton. and at Monmouth, and in his own per
son he had battled for the same great cause
in the war which preserved the union oil
the states. Losing his father before
he was 2 years old,
THEE EARLY LIFE OF GARFIELD
was one of privation, but its poverty mas
been made indelicately and UNI Justly prom
inent. Thousands OF readers have mag
ined him as the ragged, starving child,
whose reality too often greets the eye IN the
soualid sections of our large cities. General
Garfeld's infancy and youth had none ol
their destitution, none of their pitiiul ieat'
ures appealing TO the tender heart and the
omen hand of charity. He was poor boy
IN the same sense i'm which Henry Clay was
a poor boy, in which Andrew Jackson was
a moor boy, in which Daniel Webster was a
moor bow, in the sense in which large
majority Of the eminent men of Amer
lea in past generations have been poor boys
BEFORE A GREAT MULTITUDE
efmen. in a public speech. Mr.. Webster bore
this Testimony: 1T did not happen to me to
he horn in a log cabin but my elder DfOtners
and sisters were born in log cabin raised
amid the snowdrifts Of New Hampshire, az
a period 50 early, that when the smoks
rose first from its rude chimney anu euIleu
a. there Similar
evidence Of a white mans habitation, De
tween il and the settlements on the rivers
ofCanada. Its remains still exist. make
20 il an annual visit. / carry my children
TO IL, TO teach them the hardsnips endured
by the generations who have gone before
them. i love 70 dwell on the
tender recollections, the kindred
ties. the early afections and the touching
narratives and incidents which mingle with
all know Of this primitive family abode.
With the requisite change Of scene the
same words would aptly portray the early
days Of Garfield.
TIE rOvERIT or THE FEOxIIER,
where ali are engaged in a common
struggle and where a common sym
uafhV and hearty cooperation Tighten the
burdens u each. il a very different poverty.
different in kind. different in influence and
effort from that conscious and humillatine
iuTireuce which is every daF forced % con
toe ifsaIT with ueighb0ring wealth, o.
which ID feels sense Of grinding depen
fenee. The poverty o. zoe fr0ntlel
ia indeed 10 poverty. 10 IL ul'
the beginning Of wealth, and has the bound
les Possibilities Of the future a says open
ing before IL No man ever grew up IN The
agricultural regions Of the vest where
h0use-raising. Or even corn-1usEIngi y
matter q common Interest and be- pfqlness
with any other feeling than tnat o. q Drgaq-
minded generous indeIendeIce ini'
I-0-o--,l.Is i,,5eueDdeuce marked the youth
~ Gr~feId a. Il marks the youth d mn
lions q TIE blood and brain n9E trninins