Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-03-08
CHE GrFemati.
MONTPELEE. VT
WEDNESDAY, MARCH s. 1882.


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Mr.. Blainc's EulOgy on President Garfield.
DELIVERED IN TIE HALL OF THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AT WAsHINGToN,FEB'
RUARI 81, 1882
Mr.. PRESIDENT For the second time
in this generation the great departments oil
tho Government of the United States are
assembled In the hall of representatives to
do honor to the memory oil murdered
president. Lincoln fell at the close OF n
mighty struggle in which the passions of
men had been deeply stirred. The trag-
ical Termination of his great life added but
another to the heightened succession
of horrors which had marked so many
Iintels 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 hereafter
draw the portrait of murder, II he VIII
show it us it has been exhibited where
such example was last to have been looked
for, let him not give it the grim visage of
Moloch, the brow knitted by revenge, the
face black with settled hate. Let him
draw, rather, u decorous. smoothrfaced
bloodless demon; not so much oil an ex-
ample of human nature in its depravity
and in its paroXysms of crime, rs an In
fernal being, fiend in the ordinary display
and DEVELOPMENT of his character
From the landing of the Pilgrims ut
Plymouth till the uprising against Charles
|. about twenty thousand cmgrants
c,mo from old Enoland TO New England.
As they came IN pursuit OF intel'ectuai
freedom and cccleslastlcal Independence
rather than ior worldly hohor auu proL''
the emigration naturally ceased Wnoh tuc
contest Tor religious liberty 0e"an IN eat9
est Mt nome. inc man VINO stlucA LIS
most effective blow Tor freedom OF con con
science by sailing LOT VIC colonics ia lo-V
would nave Deel acCounleu ucSo't tci ~
leave alter loIo. me opportunity nau
then come on Inc son Oh EnsLtnu tHl 'na'
great contest Whlch oSt'pllsEcu thc au-
thority OF parllameht' gave rcllg'ouS ilGe-
dom 10 Tue PcopIc' SGht OIi'riG9 ~ ''lc
block, and committed 70 the hahus ol
Oliver Cromwell tho supreme executive
authority OF England Inc EnSl'sn einl
grafton was never renewed ahu from
these twenty thousand men WIN small
emigration from Scotland ana from france
are descended tue vast numbers VINO nave
the New England blood m tlloir VEINS.
In 1863 the ruict OF Nantes oy l'pu'S
NV. scattered TO other countries lour
hundred thousand l'rolcstahtS' VINO were
among the most lntei!lSchl ana chCerprls
ing OF french suhleclS-merchahtso OF cap
ital, skilled manufacturers ana ll,huicraits
men, superior 1T tlle tillo W az o'rciS III
Europe. A considerable number OF these
lfuguenot trench came 10 America le"
landed in New England ana became non
orably prominent IN Its history Ihelr
names have IN large part become hngl,
cized, or have disappeared, bnt their blood
is traceable in many OF the most reputaDle
families, and their lame IS perpetuated III
honorable memorials and useful instltu'
tions.
From these two sources inc EnSIsh
Puritan and nch'iiuguehot' came the
late prosldent-hls lathcr' Aoram Garheld'
being descended from one ana his mother,
Eliza Ballou, tr IN the olher.
1t was good stock on Dolh sides none
better, mono Drawer none truer. 1nere
was IN II an lhherl' ahcG ol courage Oh
manliness, OF imperlshaolc ioVc OF iioetty'
OF undylng adherence 10 Principle' Gar-
held was PROUD ot MS o,ooa' anu WIN rs
much satisfaction rs IL lie were BRUSH
noblemah reading MS slatGly ancestral
record ID burke l'eetaSe, he SPOKE ol
himself as nlhl!l lii descent from those VINO
would not ehuure tne oppression o' the
Stuarts, ana seVehth III descent from Tue
brave trench IroteslahIS VINO reused 10
submit 10 tyranny even from inc grand
monarquc'
General CARRIED Geli@ntea 10 uWe!l on
these TRAITS, anu during MS only Visi! 10
England, he busled himseil IN discovering
every trace OF MS lorelatherS IN parish
registrleS anu on ancient army rolls' olt'
tlng with friend IN Inc gallery OF inc
house OF commons ono nisnt atter long
days labor IN TINS lleid OF research lie
said with evident elevation that IN every
war IN Whlch lor lIlTee centuries patriots
OF English piood had struck sturuy olo"s
lor constitutional government ana human
liberty, his family had been represented
They were at Marslon Moor, Naseby ano
at Preston they were at bunker Hill' al
Saratoga and at Monmouth, ana IN Ills
own person had battled lor the same grea'
cause III the war Willch preserved the
Union oil the states.
Losing ms fathcr before nc was lwc
years OLD inc carry me Oh Uafleld was one
OF prlvatIon' hut DIS poverty mas beer
made indeIlcatcly and unjuSt!ly prominent
Thousands OF readers have imagined him
as ragged starving child, whose reality
too often greetS the eye IN the s4ualld sec
tlons OF our large cllles. General Garfield
infancy had none OF their deslItutlon, none
OF their pltiiul features appealing. to th'
tender heart and open hand OF charity Ht
was poor boy III the sense IN whlct
Henry Clay was poor BOY; IN which
Andrew jackson was 4 poor Doyi IN whlci
Danlel Wehs'cr was q poor boy; IN I'M
sense IN when large majority OF th'
eminent men Oh America IN all generations
nave been poor ooy5' belorc great mul
tnndo OF men III puoiic Speech Mr
webster bore TINS testimony;
1t dld not happen TO me TO DC born II
log cabin, but my elder brothers ant
sisters were born IN Il log cabin and RAISED
amid the snowdillts oil New Aampshlre,a
period 50 early that "hen the smoke
rose Irst from It's rude chimney ana curie'