The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-02-28
United States Senator from Arkan-
sas, Who Will Probably be Cleve-

sas, Who Will Probably be Cleve-
lands Attorney General.
| The name of Augustus II. Garland. Uni
ted States Senator from Arkansas, appears
in all. or nearly all, the many Estates :"
which represent the more or less well-foun-
ded conjectures of editors as to whom
President-elect Cleveland will call to his
counsels. He is learned, able and pow
erful man, and the compliment paid him
in this virtual unanimity of journalistic
judgment has been earned by his diligence
and the remarkable evidences of states
manship which he has exhibited in career
comparatively but short.
He was born in Upton county, Tsnnes-
see, June IL, 1882. A year afterwards his
parents removed into the State of Arkan-
sas, of which Mr.. Garland mas been resi-
dent ever since, with the exception of the
time he spent in acquiring an education.
At a suitable age he was removed from
the freedom of his fathers farm to the re-
straints of school life. He acquired his
academical training at Bardstown, Ken
lucky, where he was an inmate of Saint
Mary's and afterwards Saint Joseph's two
Catholic colleges. There he decided upon
becoming lawyer and began to read
sheepskin bound books and to follow the
proceedings of courts of justice with the
view to fnture appearances in a profess
sional capacity.
He was admitted to practice at Washing
ton, Arkansas, in the year 1853, and imme-
diately opened an Office. In 1856 he re-
moved to Little Rock, rthe capital of the
State, where he built up an excellent bust
| ness rs lawyer.
In 1860 he was Bell and Everett Elector
and opposed threatened secession as long
as there existed the apparent possibility
of preventing it. When, however, it became
inevitable, he went with his State. He
was member of the Convention in Arkan-
sas, which passed the ordinance of seces-
sion and of the Provisional Congress of the
Confederacy, which met at Montgomery,
Alabama. Subsequently, as 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 1861 he petitioned the Supreme
Court of the United States for re-admission
to practice within it. The iron-clad oath
stood in his way, and he accompanied his
application with an argument intended to
show the unconstitutionality of that re-
quirement. In December, 1867, the Su-
preme 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, aft
er giving an administration characterized
by wonderful ability, was again elected to
the Senate. On March 4, 1877, he was first
sworn in as Senator, and the second time
six years after.
Garland ranks with our greatest lawyers
and statesmen. He is a man of iplayfui
and afectionate disposition. It is his happi-
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abilitiesand loved for his childiike natu-
ralness and other admirable qualities. He
is tremendous worker, and recreates with
the joyful abandon of the school-boy.
James Stephens, formerly head centre of
the Fenian organization, has denounced
the dynamiters in unmeasurcd terms, say
ing that they "disgrace the sanctuary of
Irish nationality when they invoke the
names of Emmett, Grattan, O'Donnell and
others, who. if they were alive, would
spurn with unutterable contempt such acts
as have been done in London
Senator Jonas of Louisiana is being
strongly urged for place in the Cleveland