New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-03-08

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belonged has contributed so much that
will be valuable for future reference
His speeches are numerous, many of
them brilliant, all of them well studied,
carefully phrased, and exhaustive of
the subject under consideration. Col
lected from the scattered pages of nine
ty roal octave volumes of Congressional
Records, they would present an invalu-
able compendium of the political history
of the most important era through
which the National Government has
ever passed. When the history of this
period shall be impartially written,
when war, legislation, measures of re-
construction,
PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS,
amendments to the Constitution, main
tenance of public credit, steps toward
specie resumption, true theories of rev.
enue may be reviewed unsurrounded by
prejudice and disconnected from par
tisanism, the speeches of Garfield will
be estimated at their true value, and
will be found to comprise vast maya
zine of fact and argument of clear
analysis and sound conclusion. Indeed,
it no authority were accessible his
speeches in the House of Representa-
tives from December, 1853, to June,
1886, would give we'll connected history
and complete defense of the important
legislation of the seventeen eventful
years that constitute
HIS PARLIAMENTARY LIFE.
Far beyond that his speeches would be
found to forecast many great measures
yet to be completed measures which
he knew were beyond the public opinion
believed would secure popular approval
within the period of his own lifetime,
and by the aid of his own efforts. Diff
fering as Garfield did from the brilliant
parliamentary leaders, it is not easy to
find his counterpart anywhere in the
record of American public life. Helper
haps more nearly resembled MIR. Seward
in his supreme faith in the all-conquer-
ing power of principle. He had
THE LOVE OF LEARNING
and the patient industry. of investiga-
ton to which John Quincy Adams owes
his prominence and his Presidency.
He had some of those ponderous ele-
ments of mind which distinguished Mr..
Webster, and which indeed in all our
public life have left the great Mass
achusetts Senator without an intel
lectual peer. In English parliamentary
House of Commons present points of es-
sential difference from Garfield. But
some of his methods recall the best feat
ures in the strong, independent course
of Sir RObertPeel, and striking resem-
blances are discernable in that most
promising Of modern Conservatives who
died too early for his country and his
fame, Lord George Bentick. He had
all of
BURKEs LOVE FOR THE SUBLIME
and the beautiful, with possibly some
thing of his superabundance, and in his
faith and in his magnanimity, in his
power of statement, in his subtle analy-
sis, in his faultless logic, in his love of
literature, in his wealth and world of il
lustratiOn, one is reminded of that great
English statesman of to-day, who con-
fronted with obstacles that would daunt
any but the dauntless, reviled by those
whose supposed rights he is forced to
for the amelioration of Ireland and for
the honor of the English name.
GARFIELD's NOMINATION TO THE PREsI-
while not predicted or anticipated, was
not a surprise to the country. His
prominence in Congress, his solid quail
tiles his wide reputation, strengthened
by his then recent election as Senator
from Ohio, kept him in the public eye
as man occupying the very highest
range among those entitled to be called
statesmen. 1t was not mere chance that
brought him this high honor. 1--WE
must" says Mr.. Emerson, reckon sue
cess constitutional trait. If Eric is in
robust health and has slept well, and is
at the top of his condition and 80 years
old at his departure from Greenwa1d, he
will steer west, and his ship will reach
~ +n11n ~
in stronger and holder man, and the
ships win sail six hundred. one thou
sand, fifteen hundred miles farther and
reach Labrador and New England.
There is no chance in results"
AS A CANDIDATE
Garfield steadily grew in popular favor.
He was met with storm of detractiOn
at the very hour Of his nomination, and
it continued with increasing volume and
momentum until the close Of his victori-
GUS campaign. No might nor greatness
in mortality can censure escape, back
wOunding calumny the whitest virtue
strikes. What King so strong can tie
the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
Under it all he was
CALM, AND STRONG, AND CONFIDENT,
never lost his self-po possession, did no UNI
wise act, spoke no hasty or ill-consider-
life is more creditable than his bearing
through those five full months of vitu-
peratiOn-a prolonged agony of trial to
sensitive man, a constant and cruel
draft upon the powers of moral endur-
ance. The great mass of these unjust
imputatiOns passed unnOticed, and, with
the general debris of the campaign, fell
into oblivion. But in few instances
the iron entered his soul, and he
DIED WITH THE INJURY UNFORGOT-
TEN
if not unfOrgiven. One aspect of Car
fields candidacy was unprecede
Never before in the history of partisan
contests in this country had success
full Presidential candid ate spoken freely
on passing events and current issues.
To attempt anything of the kind seem
ed novel, rash, and even desperate. The
older class of voters recalled the unfor..
tunate Alabama letter in which Mr..
Clay was supposed to have signed his
| political death-warrant. They remem-
bered also the ot-tempered effusion by
which Gen. Scott lost q large share Of
his popularity before his nomination,
and the unfortunate speeches which
rapidly consumed the remainder. The
younger voters had seen Mr.. Greeley in
9 series of vigorous and original adj
dresses preparing the pathway for his
own defeat. Unmindful of these warn
ings, unheeding the advice Of friends,
Garfield spoke to large crowds, as he
journeyed to and from New York in
August, toa great multitude in that
city, to delegations and Populations of
every kind that called at Mentor, during
the summer and autumn. With innu-
merabl6 critics watchfll and eager to
catch Dhr0aA that might hA fliafnrtAd