Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-28

this most effective blow for freedom Of con
science by sailing for the Colonies in 1920
would have been accounted deserter t.
leave after 1910. The opportunity had ther
csme on the part of England for that grea
contest which established the authority o
Parliament TO give religious freedom to tht
people, sent Charles I. 30 the block and com
mitted to the hands of Oliver Cromwell the
supreme executive power CT England. The
English emigration plan was never renewed
and from these 10000 men, with a small
emigration from Scotland and from France
are descended the numbers who have New
England blood in their veins.
THE HUGUENoTs OF FRANCE.
In 1856 the revocation of the Edict Of
Nantes by Louis XIV. scattered to othe,
countries 400. 900 Pro.estants, who were
among the most intelligent and enterprising
of the French subjects. They included mer.
chants of capital, skilled mechanics and hand
craftsmen, superior at the time to all Others
| in Europe. A considerable number of these
Husuenot French came to America. A few
| landed in New England and became honor.
ably prominent in its history. Their names
have in large part become Anglicanizsd CT
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 Pnri-
tan and tie French Huguenot-James A.
| Garfield came; his father, Abraham Garfield,
being descended from the one. and his mother,
| Eliza Ballcu, from the other. It was good
stock on both siies-none better, none braver,
! none truer There was in it an inheritance
of courage, of manliness, Of imperishable
love of liberty, of undying adherence to prin-
ciples.
| Garfield was proud OF his blood with as
much satisfaction as il he were British
noblsman, reading his stately ancestral record
in Burke's Peerage. He spoke of himself as
the ninth in descent from those who would
not endure the oppression of the Stuarts. and
the seventh in descent from the brave French
Pretestants who refused to submit to tyranny
GARFIELD NAsrEs ON THE ROLLS OF LIBERTY.
General Garfield loved to dwell on these
traits, and during his visit TO England he
busted himself in discovering every possible
trace of his forefathers in the parish records
and on ancient army rolls. Sitting with a
friend in the gallery of the House OF Com
mons one night, after a long days labor in
this field of research, he said, with evident
elation, that in every war il which for three
centuries patriots of English blood had struck
sturdy blow for constitutional government
and human liberty, his family had been rep
resented. They were at Marsten Moor, at
Naseby and Preston; they were at Bunker
Hill, at Saratoga and at Monmouth, and he
in his own person had battled for the same
great cause in the war which preserved the
Union of the States.
POVERTY OF THE FRONTIER, NOT OF THE CITY.
Losing his father before he was two years
old, the early life of Garfield was one Of pri-
vation; but his poverty has been made in.
delicately and unjustly prominent. Thou
sands of readers have imagined him as the
ragged, starving child, whose reality toe
often greets the eye in the squalid sections OF
our large cities. General Garield's infancy
and youth had none of their destitution, none
of their pitiful appealing to the tender heart
and to the open hand of charity. He wa:
poor in the same senee in which Henry Clay
was poor boy, in which Andrew Jackson
was a poor boy, in which Daniel Webster
was a poor boy, and in the same sense in
which large majority of the eminent men
of America, in all generations, have been poor
/ boys.
| TESTIMONY OF DANIEL WEBSTER.
Before e. great multitude, il a public
speech, Mr.. Webster bore this testimony: "It
did not happen to me to be born in log
cabin, but my elder brothers and sisters were
born in a log cabin, raised amid the snow
drifts Of New Hampshire, at period SC
early that when the smoke rose first from it's
rude chimney and curled over the frozen
hills, there was no similar evidence Of white
habitation between it and settlements on the
rivers of Canada. It's remains still exist.
make to it an annual visit. I carry my chill
drep there to teach them the hardships en-.
dured by the generations which have gone
before them. l love to dwell ON its tender
recollections and kindred ties of family"
THE BROAD AND GENEROUS PIONEER SPIRIT.
= With the requisite change of scene the
same words would apply to the early days OF
Garfield. The poverty of the frontier, where
all are engaged in common struggle, and
/ where common sympathy and hearty CO.
operation lightens the burdens of each, is a
very different poverty; different in kind and
different in influence and effect from that
conscious and huniliasing indigencs which is
every day forced to contrast itself with neigh
boring wealth, on which it feels g sense OF
grinding dependence. The poverty Of the
frontier is, Indeed, no poverty. sis but the
beginning Of wealth, and has the bouDdless
possibilities of the future always opening be
fore it. 1No man ever grew up in the agri-
cultural regions of the West, where house.
raising, or even coSn-husking is a matter OF
common interest and Eelpfulness, with any
other feeling than that Of broad minded, gen.
erous independence. This honorable iude.
pendence marked the youth of Garfield as it
marks the youth of millions of the best blood
and brain now training for the future citizen
ship and future government of the Republic.
Garfield was born heir to tie land and to
tbs title of freeholder, which has been the
patent and passport Of self-respect with the
Anglo-Saxon race, ever since Hengist and
Horsa landed on the shores of England.
| sELF-MADE MANHOOD AND IT'S STRENGTH
His adventure on the canal, an alternative
between that and the deck of Lake Erie
schooner. was farmer boys dev.ce for earn
| ing money, just as the New England boy be-
gins possibly greater career by sailing before
the mast on coasting vessel, or merchant
man bound to Farther India or to the China
Sea. No manly man feels anything of shame
in looking back to his early struggles with
| adverse circumstances, and 10 man feels a
worthier pride than that he has conquered
the obstacles to his progress. And no one Of
noble mold desires to be looked upon as hav.
ing occupied menial position, ss having
been repressed by feeling of inferiority. OF