The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-02-28
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
BLAaNE's EULOGY.
RriEIIane Tribnte to tho Mem
cry of Garfield.
sketch 1T the typical AEn%ri-
Gag.
The EIoquence OF a Friend.

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speech Of Mr.. Blaine, delivered at the
Garfield memorial meeting to-day:
Mr.. President:
For the second time in this generation
thu great departments Of the government
of the United States are assembled In
the Hall Of Representatives to do honor
to the memory of a murdered President.
Lincoln fell at the close OF mighty
struggle in which the passions OF man
had been deeply stirred. The trsGicAl
termination of his great life added but
another to the heightened succession OF
horrors which had marked too many
lintsls with the blood of the first born.
Garfield WAS slain in day Of peace, when
brother had been Ieconclled to brother,
and when anger and hate had been
hanished from tbs land. Whoever shall
hereafter draw the portrsi: OF mur1er,
il he will show it As it has been exhibited
where such an example was last to have
been looked for, let him not give the
grim visage OF MOlOch, the b'ow knitted
by revange, the face black with settled
hate. Let him draw rather a decorous,
smooth faced, bloodless demon. not so
much an example of human nature in Its
depravity and in its Daroxysms OF crime as
an Internal being. fend IN the ordinary
display and development of his chsrac
ter. From the landing OF the Pilgrims 3:
Plymouth, or the uprising against
CharleI First, about 10000 emigraEts
came from old England to New England.
As they came in pursuit of intellectual,
freedom and eccleSiAstical independence,
rather than for worldly honor and profit,
the emigration naturally ceasad when
the contest for religious liberty
began in esrneIti At home The
man who struck this most
effective blow for the freedom OF COR
science by sailing for the colonies in 1920
would have been accounted a deseiter 10
leave after 1910. The opportunity 6sd
then come ON the soil OF England for
that great contest which established the
authority Of Parliament to give religious
freedom 20 the people, sent CHARLES to
the block and committed 10 the hands If
Oliver Cromwell the supreme executive
of England. The Engligh tmigra-
tiou was never renewed, and from
these 20, 90 men, with a small emigrA-
tion from Scotland and from France are
descended mum bars who have New Eng
land blood in their veins. 10 1885 the
revocation of the edict of Nantez. by
Louis XIV, scattered to other countries
400 000 Protes ants, who wire among the
most intelligent and sntsrprising
Of French subject, merchants of
C lpital, skilled mechanics and
hand crsftsmsn, superior a. the
time to all others in Europe. A consider
able number Of these huguenot French,
crms to America. A few landed in New
England and became h0norably promi-
nent in its history. Their names have
in large part become AnElicized, or
have disappeared, but their blood is
in many Of the most reputable
and :heir fame 10 perpetuAted
in honorable memorials and usefal insti- |
.utionG. From these two sources, the !
English puritan and the PrenchHugenot, |
osme his father, Abraham Garfield beir z |
descended from the one, and his mother, |
& ia BGllCu, from the other. It vas |
good stock on both sides. None better,
none drawer, none truer. There was in |
/ an Inheritance Of courage, Of manliness,
IF imnerishAble love Of liberty, Of un
lying adherence to principle. Garfield |
vas proud Of his blood, with az much |
IatiSiAStion as If he we're British noble
nan, reading his stately ancestral record
N Bunksr's peerags. He spoke Of himself
u ninth in descent from those who
would not endure the aggression Of the
'tuarts, aad seventh in descent from the
,rave French ProteItAnts who refused to
ubmit to tyranny, even from the Grand
donarque. General Garfield delighted
o dwell on these traits, and during his
My visit to RnglAnd he busted himself
D discovering every trace Of his fore
Athers in parish reRistries and on ancient
rmy rolls. Sitting with q friend in the
alIery Of the House Of Commons one
light, after long days labor in this
cid OF research, he said with evident
lstion, that in every war which for
1ree centuries the patriots of English
lood had struck sturdy blows for con-
.ltutionai government and human lib
rty, his family had been represented.
hey were 1t MarstoR Moor, at Nasty
NO FreStoni they were Mt Bunker /.
MI, st Saratoga and Monmouth, /,
no hls own person had baitled
y the same great cause in the WAT :
hlch preserved the Union Of states.
oslng ais father before he was years .
%, the earl life Of Garfield was one of :
rlVatlon, but his poverty has been !
ace lndelicately and upjuEtly prcmi, i,
snt: Thousands Of readers have ina
ned him as the ragged, starving chief.
nose reality too often greets the eve in
e squalId sections Of our large cities. =
en-. Gar6eld's infancy and youth had
'ne OF their restitution, mona of their
tiiuL appealing to The tender heart or :
the open hahd of charity. He was in {
e same sense In which Henry Clay was :,
poor boy, in which Andrew Jacksen ~
Is poor boy, in which Daniel Mebster y
Is poor boy; in the same sanse in y
nIch large majority Of the eminent ~
en- ofAmeries in all generations bsve y
sn poor boys. Before q great multi lC
qe OF men In public speech, Nv. :,
eDster bore tails testimony: II did a
: happen to be born in p
:, cabin, but my elder D o,hsrs g
q sisters we're born in a log cabin u,
Ised amid the snow-drifts ~ M 81
lmpShlre at a period so earIy that ol
zen me smoke rose first from its crude ~ q.
lmney snd curled over the frozen hills ~
gre was no similar evidence of q whits -
Dltation between it and the settlements ~ ~
p, me rivers OF Canada. It's retnaius =.
Il exist. make to it an annual visit ue
go ny enid en- TO it to teach them -
haEosnlps endured By the genera =.
Is which have gone before them, B.
10 dwell on The tender recollections -
ufeo ll>s' the early affection and the ~
-cnlng narratives and Incidents vbicb ID
u ki6 Win ali | know Of Lhis rrir,o,5 80