The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-03-10

Blaine's Tribute to the Memory Of Our
Murdered President. no

VI 0CI0Q II0SkO0Ute
Mr.. PRESIDENT: For the second time II
this generation the great departments of thu
bled in the Hall of Representatives to Dc
honor to the memory of q murdered Presi
dent Lincoln fell at the close of q mighty
seea deeply Stirred Rhe srasi CO
ton OF his great life added but another to the
lengthened succession of horrors which had
hrst born. Garfield was slain in a day o.
peace, when brother had been reconciled tG
brother. and when anger and hate had beer
of,er rr ON Sne land shall here
Will show 1t as 1t has been exhibited, whose
such example was last to have been looked
Tor, let him not give it the grim visage of No
loch. the brow knitted by revenge, the face
black with settled hate Eet him draw rather
decorous, smooth faced, bl0Odless demon
with not so much an example of human ma.
eure III It's depravity and in irS parOxysms Of
crime as an internal being-a fend in the
ordinary display and Development OF his
> Fromsthe landing of the Pilgrims at Ply
mouth till the uprising against Charles l.:
about 20, 600 emigrants cameron old England
to New England. As they came in pursuit OF
pendence. rather than for worldly h nor and
profit the emiSrhtipn naturally ceased when
the contest for religions liberty began in
most efectual blow for freedom OF conscience
by sailing fOrfhe colonies in 16s0 would have
been accounted a deserter to leave In 1910.
England for that great contest which estab-
ished the authority of Parliament gave re-
ligiOus 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 20 900 men.
with a small emigration from Scotland and
France. are descended the vast numbers who
have New England blood in their veins. In
1855 the revocation of the edict of Nantes by
Louis XIV. scattered to other countries 400 900
Professionals who were among the most intel
1ectual and enterprising OF French subjects
merchants OF capital, skilled manufacturers
and handicraftsmen, superior at the time to
all Others in Europe. A considerable number
of these Huguenot French came to America.
A few landed in New England and became
hOnorably prominent in its history. Their
or have disappeared. but their blood is trace
able in many of the most reputable families,
and their fame is perpetuated in honorable
memorials and useful institutions From
these two sources. the English Puritan and
the French HuguenOt. came the late Presl
dent. his father, Abram Garfield, being de
scendei from the one. and his mother, Eliza
beth Bailou, from the other. 1t was good
stock on both sides. none better, none Drawer,
none truer. There was in it an inheritance of
courage, of manliness, of imperishable love OF
Garfield was proud of his blood. and with as
much satisfaction Ms if he were Il British no.
bleman reading his stately ancestral record
In Burkes Peerage. he 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
oven from the Grand Monarque. Gen. GAR
field delighted to dwell on these traits, and
during his only visit to England he busted
himself in discovering every trace of his fore
in Oh aUlS N
army rolls.
Sitting with friend in the gallery of the
House of Commons one night. after long
days labor in this field Of research, he said
with evident citation, that in every war in
which, for three centuries, patriots of English
blood had struck sturdy blows for constitu-
family had been represented. They were at
Marston Moore. at Naseby, at Preston, and at
N nmouth, and in his own person he had bat
tl..i for the same great cause in the war which
preserved the Union of the United States.
1h,-iug his father before he was two years old
til .arly life of Garfield was one of privation,
but it poverty has been made indelicately
amt "ijustly prominent. Thousands of read
'ers have imagined him as the ragged. starv-
an2 child, whose reality too often greets the
eye IN the squald sections of our large cities.
Gen. Garfed'S infancy aud youth hal none of
til IL de>titution. none of their pitiful features
.apl,,:aling TO the tender heart and the open
ri Which, ae boy in the
boy in which Andrew jackson was a poor
boy, in which Daniel Webster was poor boy;
I'm the sense in which a large majority OF the
eminent men OF America In past generations
have been Door boys.
Before great multitude of men, in public
speech, MIR. Webster bore this testimony: sit
did not happen to me to be born in Il log cab
In, but my elder brothers and 81 tiers were
born in a log cabin, raised amid The snow
drifts OF New Hampshire, at period 40 early
chimney and curled over the frozen hills
there was no similar evidence of a white
mans habitation between it and the settle
Inents on the rivers of Canada. Its remains
still exist. make to it an annual visit.
cary nv children to it.. to teach them the
bardshipS endured by the generations who
tie tender recollections, the kindred ties. the
early affections and the touching narratives
aud incidents which mingle with all l know
-oSthis primitive family abode"
With the requisite change of scene the same
words would aptly portray the early days of
Garfield. The poverty of the frontier, where
where a common sympathy and hearty CO.
operation tighten the burdens OF each, is a
very different poverty, different in kind, diff
'ferent in influence and effort from that con-
scious and huniiliating indigence which is ev-
every day forced to contrastitSelf with neigh
boring wealth, Oh which it feels u sense of
frontier is, indeed. no poverty. 1t is but the
beginning of wealth, and has the boundless
possibilities of the future always opening be-
foreit. No man ever grew up in The agricul-
ing. or even q cOrn-husking, is a matter of
common interest and helpfulneSS, with any
other feeling than that of a broad minded,
generous independence. This honorable in
dependence marked the youth OF Garfield as
1t marks the youth of millions OF the blood
aud brains now training for the future citizen
7shipSand governmental the republic. Garfield
was born heir to the land, to the title of free
holder, which has been the patent and pass
port of self respect with the Anglo Saxon race
ever since HengiSt and Horsa landed on the
shores of England. His adv enture on the ca
nal, an alternative between that and the deck
of Lake Erie schooner, was q farmer boys
device for earning money, just as New Eng
land lad begins q possibly greater career by
Sailing before the mast on q cOasting vessel
oron amerchantman bound to the farther In
dia or China seas. No manly man feels any,
thing of shame in looking back to the early
struggles with adverse circumstances and no
man feels worthier pride than when he has
conquered the obstacles to his progress. But
no one OF noble mold desires to be looked
upon as having been repressed by n spirit OF
1nferiority. or as having suffered the pangs of
poverty until relief was found at the hands of
charity. Gen. Garfields youth presented
no hardships which family love and family
energy did not overcome, subjected him to no
invitations which he did not cheerfully accept,
recalled with delight and transmitted with
profit and with pride. -
Garfield's early opportunities for securing an
education were extremely limited, and yet
were sufficient to develop an intense desire to
learn. He could read at three years Of age,
and each winter he had advantage of the dis :
trict school. He readall the books to be found