New-York tribune., 1882-02-28
himself to his subject and exhibited-not Blame but
Garfield.
THE GRAFTON.

of REPRESENTATIVES to do honor to the memory OF u
murdered President. Lincoln fell ut the close oil
mighty struggle in which the passions OF men had
been deeply stirred The traglcal termination oI
his great life added but another to the lengthehed
succession of horrors which had marked so many
lintels with the blood of the first born. CARRIED
was slain in day of peace, when brother hai peen
reconciled TO brother and when anger and hate had
been banshed from the land. "Whocvcr shall here
after draw the portrait of murder If he Will show IL
as il has been exhibited where such example was st
to have been looked for let him not give II the grim
visage of M0loch the brow knitted by revenge, the
face black with settled hate. Let him draw rather,
a decorous smooth-faced blOOdcss demon; not SO
much an example of human nature In us depraVl'y
and in its paroxysms of crime, as an Internal Dehg
ficnd in the ordinary display and development OF
his character"
From the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth TIL
the UPRISING against Charles J., about twenty
thousand emIgrants came from old England to New
England. As they came i'll pursuit of intellectual
freedom and ecclesiastical Independence rather than
for worldly honor and profit, the emigration mtur-
ally ceased when the contest for religious liberty
began in earnest at home. The man who struck his
most effective blow for frccdQm of conscience by
sailing for the colonies in 1920 would have been ac
counted deserter to leave after 1910. The oppor-
tunity had then come on the soil of England for that
Parliament, gave religious freedom to the people,
sent Charles to the block, and committed to the
hands of Oliver Cromwell the supreme Executive
authority of England. The English emigration was
never renewed and from these 10000 men,
with a small emigration from Scotland and from
France are descended the vast numbers who have
New-Engand blood in their veins.
In 1858 the revocation of the edict of Nantes by
Louis XIV. scattered to other countries four hun
dred thousand Protestants. who were among the
most Intelligent and enterprising of French subjects
merchants of capital. skilled manufacturers and
handicraitsmcn superior at the time to all Others in
Europe considerable number Of these lluguenot
French came to America; a few landed i'll New
England and became honorably prominent in his
tory Their names have III large part become An
glicsed. or have disappeared, but their blood is
traccable in many of the most reputable families,
and their fame is pcrpetuated in honorable memo
Iials and useful institutions.
From these two sources, the Engish-Purtan and
the French -HuguenOt, came the late Piesldent-hls
father, Abram Garfield, being descended from the
one and his mother Eliza Ballou, from the other.
1t was good stock on both sides-nOne better, none
braver none trucr. There was in il an inheritance
of courage OF manliness, of imperishable love othb-
erty, of undying adherence TO principle. Garfield
was proud of his blood and with a. much satisfac
III IL
stately ancestral record in Burkes Peerag", he spoke
of himself as ninth in descent from those who would
not endure the oppression of the Stuarts, and sew
cnth in descent from the brave French Protcs tants
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 luled himself in discovering every
trace of his foTcfathers in parish regstres and on
ancient Army rolls. Sitting with friend III the gal
lery of the House OF Comm one night after long
DAYS labor in this field of research, lie said with evil
dent elation that in every i'll which for three
centuries patriot, of English blood had struck sturdy
blows for constitutional government aud human lib
crty. his family had been represented They were
at MaIston Moor, at Nascby and at Preston they
were at Bunker Hill, at Saratoga, and at Monmouth,
and in his own person had batled for the same great
cause in the war which preserved the Union of the
States.
GARFIrLD's EARLY LIFE.
Losing his father before he was two years old, the
early life of Garfield of priyaion, but its
poverty has been made indccately and unjustly
prominent. Thousands OF readers have imagined
him as the ragged, starving chlld whose reality too
often grccts the eye in the squalid sections of our
large cites General GarGelds infancy and youth
had none of their dcstution, of their pitiful
features appealing 10 the tender heart and to the
open hand of charity. lie a poor boy in the
same sense in which Henry Clay was a poor boy IN
which Andrew Jackson Il poor boy; III which
Daniel Webster was Il poor boy in the sense in
which a large majority of the eminent men OF
America in al generations have been poor boys.
Before a great multitude of men, in public speech
Mr.. Webster bore this testimony:
"It did not happen to me to be born in log
cabin but my e.dcr brothers and sisters were born
in a log cabin raised amid the snowdrifts of New
n at who he
smoke rose first from lis rude chimney and curled
over the frozen hills there similar evidence
of a white mans habiation between it and the |
settlements on the rivers of Canada. Its remains
still exist. / make to il an annual visit. carry
INV children to it TO teach them the hardships en-
dured by the generations which have gone before
them love to dwell on the tender recollections,
the kindred ties the early affections, and the touch
ing narratives and incidents which minge 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 |
The poverty of the frontier where all engaged
in a common struggle and where a common SYM
patty and hearty cooperation Tighten the burdens
OF each is very different poverty, different in kind
different in influence and effect from that conscious
and humiliating indulgence which every day forced
10 contrast itself with ncighborug wealth which
it feels a sense of grinding dependence. The pow |
crtv of the frontier Is indeed poverty. 1t Is but
tn beginning Of wealth, and has the boundless pos
sibiics of the future always opening before It. No
man ever grew up IN the agcIl ura regions OF the
West where a hous -gaisiuI, or even corn-husEing
is matter of common interest and epfulne s. with
any other feeling than that OF broad-niudcd, gen |
crous independencc This honorable dependence |
marked the youth OF Garfield as il marks the youth
OF millions of the best blood AID bran low training
for the future citizenship and future government of
the Republic Garfield WAS born heir to land, to the
tile OF irechoder. which Las been the patent and