The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1885-03-04
United States Senator from Arkansas,
Who VIII Probably be Attorney
General at Washington.

The name of Augustus H. Garland,
United States senator from Arkansas,
appears in all, or nearly all, the..many
tslateso which represent the more or
less well-fonnded conjectures of editors,
as to whom President-elect Cleveland
will call to his counsels. He is learn
ed, able and powerful man, and the COM
pliment paid him in this virtual unan-
unity of journalistic Judgment regarding
him, has been earned by his diligence
and the remarkable evidences of states
manship which he has exhibited in q
care er comparatively but short.
He was born in Upton county, Ten
nessee, June Il, 1882. A year afterwards
his parents removed into the state of
Arkansas, OF which Mr.. Garland has
been resident ever since, with the
exception Of the time he spentacquiring
an education.
Ata suitable age he was removed from
the freedom of his fathers farm to tile
restraints of school life. He acquired
his acadtmical training at BradstoWn,
Kentucky, where he was an inmate Of
Saint Mary's and afterwards Saint
Joseph's, two Catholic colleges. There
too he decided on becoming a lawyer,
and began to read sheepslin bound
books and to follow the proceedings Of
courts Of justice with the view OF future
appearances in q professional capacity.
lie was admitted to practice at Wash
ington, Arkansas, in the year 1858, and
Immediately opened an office. In 1856
he removed to Little Rock. the capital
of the state, where he built up an excel
lent business as q lawyer.
In 1860 he was a Bell and Everett
elector, and opposed threatened seces-
sion as long as there existed the appar
ent possibility of preventing it. When,
however, it became inevitable he went
with his state. He Wasa member of the
convention in Arkansas, " hich passed
the ordinance of secession, and Of the
provisional congress of the confederacy,
which met at Montgomery, Alabama.
Subsequently as a member of both
houses of the confederate congress, he
did his utmost to assist the cause which
collapsed with the surrender of General
Lee. In 1865 he petitioned the supreme
court of the Uneted States for readmis-
sion to practice within it. The iron<-
clad oath stood in his way, and be
accompanied his application with an
argument intended to show the uncon-
stitutionality of that requirement. In
December, 1867 the supreme court
rendered decision agreeing in three Of
the four points urged by Mr.. Garland
Meantime the statesman was denied the
seat in the United States senate to which
the legislature of Arkansas had elected
him.
He was elected governor of his state
in the year 1874. without opposition,
and, after giving an administration char
acterized by wonderful ability, was
again elected to the senate. On March
4, 1877, he was sworn IN as senator Gar
land, and the second time six years
after.
Garland ranks with our greatest law
yers and statesmen. He is man of
a playful and affectionate disposition.
It is his happiness to be honored and
reverenced for his abilities, and love for
his child-like naturalness and other
amiable qualities. He is tremendous
worker, and recreates with the joyful
abandon Of the school-boy.