New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-03-08
BLAINE'S EULOGY OF
THE MARTYRED
PRESIDENT,
A MAGNIFICENT TRIB-
UTETOTHELIFE AND
CHARACTER OF A
NOBLE MAN.
His Struggles and Triumphs in
Early Life---His Lowly Beginning
and Rapid Advancement AT
School and College 80 In
Camp and in Debate.
A STORY OF MARVELLOUS INTEREST.

a SIUR1 VI MARVELLOUS INTEREST.
Mr.. PRESIDENT: For the second time
in this generation the great departments
OF the Government Of the United States
are assembled in the Hall Of Represent
atives to do honor to the memory of
murdered President. Lincoln fell at
the close of a mighty struggle in which
the passions of men had been deeply
stirred. The tragical termination of
his great life added but another to the
heightened succession of horrors which
had marked so many lintels with the
blood of the first born. Garfield was
slain in day of peace, when brother
had been reconciled to brother, and
when anger and hate had been banished
from the land. "Whoever shall hereaf-
ter draw
THE PORTRAIT OF MURDER,
if he will show it as it has been exhibit
ed, where such example was least to
the grim visage of Moloch, the brow
knitted by revenge, the face black with
settled hate. Let him draw rather a
decorous, smooth-faced, bloodless de-
mon, not so much an example of human
nature in its depravity and in it's par
oxysms OF crime as an internal being, a
tiend in the ordinary display and deyel-
Opment of his character"
FROM THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS
ut Plymouth till the uprising against
Charles l., about 10000 emigrantS came
from Old England to New England. AS
they came in pursuit of intellectual
freedom and ecclesiastical independence
rather than for worldly honor and prof
it, the emigration naturally ceased when
the contest for religious liberty began
in earnest at home. The man who
struck his most effective blow for free
dom OF conscience by sailing for the
colonies in 1920 would have been ac-
counted deserter to leave after 1910.
The opportunity had then come on the
soil of England for that great contest
which established the authority of Par
lament, gave religious freedom to the
people,
SENT CHARLES TO THE BLOCK,
and committed to the hands of Oliver
Cromwell the supreme executive ALL
thority of England. The English emf
grafton was never renewed, and from
these 10000 men. with a small emigra-
ton from Scotland and from 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 9TH
er countries 100000 PrOtestants, who
were among the most intelligent and
enterprising of French subjects, mer-
chants of capital, skilled manufacturers
and handicrafts-men superior at the
time to all others in Europe. A cOnsid-
French came to America. A few land
ed in New England and became
HONORABLY PROMINENT IN IT'S HIS
TORY.
Their names have in large part be-
come anglicized or have disappeared,
but their blood is traceable in many Of
the most reputable families, and their
fame is perpetuated in honorable me-
MORALS and useful institutions. From
these two sources, the English Puritan
and the French Huguenot, came the
late President, his father, Abram Gar
field, being descended from the one and
his mother, Eliza Ballou, from the 9TH
er. 1t was
GOOD STOCK ON BOTH SIDES
hone better, none Drawer, none truer.
There was in it an Inheritance of cour-
age, of manliness, of .imperishable love
of liberty, of undying adherence to
principle. Garfield was proud of his
blood, and with as much satisfaction as
II he were British nObleman reading
his stately ancestral record in Burke's
Peerage, he spoke of himself rs ninth in
descent from those who would not en-
dure the oppression of the Stuarts, and
seventh in descent from the brave
French Professionals who refused to sub
init to tyranny even from the Grand
MonarQue. Gen. Garfield delighted to
froSf Il Il 30,
only visit to Eng Gland he busted himself
in discovering
EVERY TRACE OF HIS FOREF 4ATHERS.
in parish registries and on ancient army
rolls. Sitting with friend in the gal
lery 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 con-
stitutional government and human lib
erty his family had been represented.
They were at Marston Moor, at Naseby
and Preston; they were at Bunker Hill.
at Saratoga, and at Monmouth, and his
own person had battled for the same
great cause in the War which preserved
the Union of States. Losing his father
before he was two years old,
THE EARLY LIFE OF GARFIELD
was one OF privation, but it's poverty
has been made indelicately and unjust
!y prominent. Thousands of readers
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. Garfield's infancy
and youth had none of their restitution.
none OF their pitiful features appealing
to the tender heart and to the open hand
OF charity. He was a poor boy in the
same sense in which Henry Clay was
poor boy; in which Daniel Webster was
poor boy: in the same sense in which
large majority of the eminent men of
America in all generations have been
poor boys.
BEFORE A GREAT MULTITUDE
OF men in public speech MIR. Webster
pore this testimony: 1T did not happen
10 me to be born in log-cabin, but my
elder brothers and sisters were born in
!og-cabin, raised amid the snow-drifts
OF New Hampshire at period so early
that when the smoke rose first from it's
crude chimney and curled over the frOz-
en- hills there was no similar evidence
OF a white mans habitation between it
and the settlements on the rivers of Can
ada. Its remains still exist. make to it
an annual visit. I carry my children to
it to teach them the hardships endured
by the generations which have gone be-
fore them. love to dwell on the ten.
der recOllectiOns, the kindred ties, the
early affections, and the touching mar
ratives and incidents which ming1e with