The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-03-04
GARFIELD.
Blaine's Tribute to the Memory Of Our
Murdered President.

MR. PRESIDENT: For the second time in
THIS generation the great departments of the
Govcrnment OF the United states are assem-
bled in the tiall of Representatives to do
honorto the memory OF "A murdered Presi.
dent Lincoln fell at the close OF a mighty
s5trnggl h in which the passions OF men had
ton of his great life added but another to the
heightened succession of horrors which had
marked so many lintcls with the blood of the
first born. Garfield was slain in a day of
peace, when brother had been reconciled to
brother, and when anger and hate had been
banished from the land. Whoever shall here
after draw the portrait of the murderer II he
Will show it as it has been exhibited, whose
such example was last to have been looked
for, let him not give IL the grim visage of Mo
loch, the brow knitted by revenge the face
black with settled hate. Let him draw rather
"a decorous, smooth faced, bloodiess demon
with not so much an example of human ma
ture in its depravity and in it's paroxysms of
crime as an Internal being-a fiend in the
ordinary display and development of his
From the landing of the Pilgrims at Ply.
mouth till the uprising against Charles L
ABOUT 10000 emigrants came from old England
20 New England. AS they came in pursuit of
intellectual freedom and ecclesiastical indie
pcndence, rather than for worldly honor and
proht the emigration naturally ceased when
inc contest for religious liberty began in
earnest at home. The man who struck his
most eifectual blow for freedom of conscience
ny sailing for the colonies i'm 1920 would have
Deen accounted n deserter to leave i'm 1910
The opportunity had then come on the soil OF
England Tor that great contest which estab-
llshed 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-
" OF England. The English emigration was
never renewed, and from these 20 900 men
with small emigration from Scotland and
france, are descended the vast numbers who
nave New England blood in their veins. In
1879 the revocation of the edict of Nantes by
Louis XIV. scattered to other countries 400 900
frotestants, who were among the most intel
- nj air
merchants OF capital, skilled manufacturers
and handicrattsmen, superior at the time to
az others in Europe. considerable number
OF these Huguenot French came to America.
a few landed in New England and became
honorably prominent in its history Their
names have in large part become anglicized
able in many of the most reputable families
and their fame il 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
scended from the one, and his mother, Eliza
beth Ballou, 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
liberty, of undying adherence to principles.
Garfield was proud of his blood. and with as
much satisfaction as if he were British no.
bleman reading his stately ancestral record
In Burke's 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
Protestants who refused to submit to tyranny
even from the Grand MonMque. Gen. Gar
neld delighted to dwell on these traits and
during his only visit to England he busted
himself i'll discovering every trace of his fore
fathers in parish reGistries and on ancient
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 English
blood had struck sturdy blows for con stitu-
tional government and human liberty, his
family had been represented. They were at
Marston Moore, at Naseby, at Preston, and at
Monmouth, and in his own person he had bat
tied Tor the same great cause in the war which
preserved the Union of the United States.
Losing his father before he was two years old
the early life of Garfield was one of privation
but its poverty has been made indeiicately
and unjnstly prominent. Thousands of read
ers have imagined him as the ragged, starv-
ing child, whose reality too often greets the
eye in the squalid sections of our large cities.
Gen. Garfed's infancy and youth had none of
their destitution, none of their pitiful features
appealing to the tender heart and the open
same sense in which Henry Clay was q poor
boy, in which Andrew Jackson was q poor
boy, in which Daniel Webster was poor boy;
in the sense in which large majority of the
eminent men OF America in past generations
have been poor boys,
Before great multitude of men, in public
speech, Mr.. Webster bore this testimony at
did not happen to me to be born in a log cab
In, but my elder brothers and sisters we're
born in q log cabin, raised amid the snow
drifts OF New Hampshire, at period so early,
that when the smoke rose first from its rude
chimney and curled over the frozen hills
there was no similar evidence of white
mans habitation between it and the settle
mcnts on the rivers of Canada Its remains
still exist i make to it an annual visit |
carry my children to it, to teach them the
hardships endured by the generations who
have gone before them | love to dwell ON
the tender recollections, the kindred ties, the
early affections and the touching narratives
incidents W minUIn wi /
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 are engaged in IA common struggle, and
where IL common sympathy aud hearty CO.
operation tighten the burdens OF each, is a
very different poverty, different in kind, diff
ierent in influence and effort. from that con-
scious and humiliating indulgence which is ev-
every day forced to contrastiJself with neigh
boring wealth, on which it feels a sense of
grinding dependence. The poverty of the
frontier is, indeed, no poverty. IL is but the
beginning of wealth, and has the boundless
possibilities of the future always opening be-
fore it. No man ever grew up in the agricul-
tural regions of the West whore a house rails
common interest and helpfulness, with any
other feeling than that of broad minded,
generous Independence. This honorable in
dependence marked the youth OF Garfield as
il marks the youth of millions OF the blood
and brains now training for the future citizen
ships and government OF the republic Garfield
WAS bOll nolI W tiic lhuui w Oho tisiN VI iicS-
holder, which has been the patent and pass
port of self espect with the Anglo Saxon race
ever since Hengist and Horsa landed on the
shores of England. His adventure on the Ca
nal, AN alternative between that and the deck
of Lake Erie schooner, was farmer boys
device for earning money, just as New Eng
land lad begins Il possibly greater career by
sailing before the mast on coaStIng vessel
or on merchantmen 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 a 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 spirit of
inferiority, or as having suffered the pangs OF