The Portland daily press., 1882-02-28
TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2s.
by TELEGRAPH.
JAMES A. GARFIELD.
Memorial Services at the Cap
itol Yesterday.
GRAFTON BY THE HON. JAMES
G. BLAINE.
Brilliant Review Of Garfield's
Career.
Motives Of His Administration Eloquent
Iy INDICATED.
Motives OF His Administration Eloquent
Iy indicated.

this morning ADMISSION 10 uno OaPteoA "o' -
fused to ali save members OF Congress ana
their employes But at that hour the doors
were thrown open to persons fortunate enough
to hold tickets to the memorial services III
homer of the late James A. Garfield, ana pe-
fore half an hour had passed the galleries. OF
the spectators were ladies, who, out OF respect
to the occasion, had for the most part discarded
bright colors, and sombre black was tne pre-
vaiiing hue of their costumes. Ihere were no
signs of mourning ia the hall. a 1uii Ienstn
portralt of the late President was hung Just
back of the chairs of the presiding officers, be-
ing itself undraped. The three front rows OF
desks in the chamber had been removed and
their places occopied by a large numDer OF
chairs to accommodate invited guests. MEN,
bers of the House were early IN attendance, al
being arrayed in black and few appearing III
In the lobby back of the Speakers desk the
Marine Band was stationed and from 10 Oo'clock
until noon whiled away the tedlum OF the
passing hours by solemn music.
Among the distinguished guests first to ar
rive were George Bancroft, w. W. Corcoran,
CYRUS w Field and Admiral Worden, VINO
took seats directly in front OF the clerks desk.
Among the guests upon the floor were Gov
Scbenck. Cows. Hoyt of Pennsylvania, Blge-
low of Connecticut and Adjutant General Har-
mon of Connecticut. At 11.30 Gems. Snef-
man. Sheridan Hancock, Howard and Melgs
and Admirals Ammen, Rogers and Rodgers
entered and were assigned to seats to the leit
of the Speakers desk. A few minutes later
the diplomatic corps in full regalia were ush-
cred in, headed by the Hawaiian minister as
dean of the corps. Their brilliant costumes
only served to throw into stronger relief the
dark attire of members of Congress who sat
Immediately behind them. The supreme
Court of the District, headed by Marshal Hen
nv. were the next arrivals. DIR. Bliss was also
in attendance Mrs. Blaine occupied front
seat in the gallery reserved for friends of the
President.
At precisely II O'Clock the House was call to
order by Speaker Keifer, and prayer was Of
fered by the chaplain of the House.
The Speaker then said:
This day has been dedicated by the action OF
the two House of Congress to services IN COM
memoration of the life and death OF James
Abram Garfield, late President of the United
States. This House is now assembled and
ready to perform its part.
The resolutions setting apart the day for me-
mortal services were then read by CLERK NC
Pherson. ;,
At 1910 the Senate was announced and all
rose respectfully as tue senators enbsreu anu
took their seats.
They were followed by the chief justice and
associate justices of the supreme court dressed
in their robes Of office.
Again the assembled multitude arose as the
President of the United States and his cabinet
were announced. They were accompanied BY
Senator Sherman and Representative Mch IN
lev chairmen of the arrangements. Some Mt
tie applause greeted the entrance OF the Presi'
dent, but it was soon discontinued as being IN
appropriate to such an occasion.
The President took front seat on the rlght
of the presiding officers chair next to that oe-
cupied by Cyrus w. Field.
At 1880 the orator of the day, James G..
Blaine, was announced, and his advent was
the signal for another round OF applause.
The ceremonies were then opened by snort
prayer by Chaplain f. d. Power of the House,
after which President Davis said
This day is dedicated by Congress for memo
rial services on the late President of the Unit
ed States James A. Garfield. Ipresent to you
Hon. James G. Blaine, who has been ftly
chosen as the orator for this historical occa-
sion.
Mr.. Blaine then rose and standing at the
clerks desk Immediately in front OF the two
presiding officers, proceeded, with Impressive
ness of manner and clearness OF tone to denver
his eulogy from manuscript, as follows:
Mr.. Blaine's Grafton.
Mr.. PRESIDENT: For the second time in
this generation the great departments OF the
Government of the United States are assem-
bled in the Hall of Representatives to do hon
or to the memory of murdered President
Lincoln fell at the close of mighty struggle
in which the passions of men had been deeply
stirred. The tragical termination OF his great
life added but another to the heightened sue
cession of horrors which had marked SO many
lintels with the blood of the first born. Gar
field was slain in day of peace, when brother
had been reconciled to brother, and when an
ger and hate had been banished from the land.
"Whoever shall hereafter draw the portrait OF
murder if he will show it as it has been exhib-
tied where such example was last to have been
looked for, let him not give 1t the grim Vlsage
of Moloch, the brow knitted by revenge, the
face black with settled hate. Let him draw,
rather decorous, Smooth-faced bloodlesS de-
M Tounh pXamne of human na-
ture in its depravity and in its paroxysms OF
crime, as an internal being, a dend IN the ordI-
dinary display and development of his charae-
ter"
From the landing of the Pilgrims at Ply
mouth till the uprising against Charles First,
about twenty thousand emigrantS came from
old England to New England. AS they came
in pursuit of intellectual freedom and eccesias-
tical independence rather than for worldly
honor and profit, the emigration naturally
ceased when the contest for religious liberty
began in earnest at home. The man who struck
his most effective blow for freedom OF consci-
ence by sailing for the colonies in 1920 would
have been accounted deserter to leave after
i640. The opportunity had then come on the
soil of England for that great contest which
established the authority of Parliament, gave
religious freedom to the people, sent Charles to
the block and committed to the hands of Oil
yer Cromwell the Supreme Executive authori-
ty of England. The English emigration was
never renewed, and from these twenty thou
sand men with a small emigration from Scot
land and from France are descended the vast
numbers who have New England blood in
their veins.
In 1856 the revocation of the edict Of Nantes
by Louis XIV. scattered to other countries four
hundred thousand Protestants, who we're
among the most intelligent and enterprlslng OF
French subiects-merchants of capital, skilled
manufacturers, and handicraftsmen, superior
at the time to all others in Europe. consid-
erable number of these Huguenot French came
to America; a few landed in New England and
became honorably prominent in It's history.
Their names have in large part become Angli-
cized, or have disappeared, but their blood is
traceable in many of the most reputable fami-
lies, and their fame is perpetuated In honora-
BILE memorials and useful Institutions.
From these two sources, the English-Puritan
and the Frencb-H -Hugueuot came the late Pres
ident-his father, Abram Garfield, being de-
scended from the one and his mother, Eliza
Ballou, from the other.
IL was good stock on both sides-none better,
none Drawer, none truer. There was in 1T an
inheritance of courage, OF manllness, OF I'M
perishable love of liberty, of undying adher-
ence to principle Garfield was proud of his
blood; and, with as much satisfaction as ii he
were a British nobleman reading his stately an
cestral record in Burke's Peerage, ne spoke OF
himself as ninth in descent from those who
would not endure the oppression of the Stuarts,
and seventh in descent from the brave French
Protestants who refused to submit to tyranny
even from the Grand Monarque.
General Garfield delighted to dwell on these
traits, and during his only visit to England he
busted himself in discovering every trace of
his forefathers in parish registries and on an
cent army rolls. Sitting with friend in the
gallery of the House of Commons one night
after a long days labor in this field of research,
he said with evident elation that in every war
in which for three centuries patriots of Eng
lish blood had struck sturdy blows for constitu-
tionai government and human liberty, his FAM
ily had been represented. They were at Mar
ston Moor, at Naseby and at Preston; they
were at Bunker Hill, at Saratoga, and at Mon
mouth, and ia his own person had Dattled FOR
the same great cause in the war which pre-
served the Union of the States.
Losing his father before be was two years
old, the early life of Garfield was one of pr1va-
ton, but its poverty has been made lndelIcate-
ly and unjustly prominent. Thousands OF
readers have imagined him as the ragged,
starving child, whose reality too often greets
the eye in the squalid sections of our large
cities General Gariield's infancy and youth
had none of their destitution, none of their
pitiful features appealing to the tender heart
and to the open hand of charity. He was
poor boy in the same sense in which Henry
Clay was a poor boy; in which Andrew jack
son was a poor boy; in which Daniel Webster
was a Door boy: in the sense in v hich large
majority of the eminent men IN America in all
generations have been poor boys. Before
great multitude of men, in public speech,