Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-23
PROMINENTLY MENTIONED 8S 4TTOR.
NEr GENERIL UNDER CLETELIND.
something About a senator Who is Considered
to he One of the Leading Legal Lights OF
the Country - Tracing hi, Success
ful Career.

Augustus ii. Garland was born in Upton
county, Tennessee, June IL, lSS2. His parents
removed to the state of Arkansas the follow
ing year and settled in the bottom lands of
the Red River Valley. At suitable age
young Garland was sent TO Bardstown, Ken
lucky, to be educated in what was then the
famous seat of learning in the Southwest
His academic studies were pursued in the
Catholic colleges of St Mary and ST. Joseph.
During the latter part of his residence in
Bardstown he read law and attended the
trial of causes in the court room whenever
he had the opportunity. At that time the
local bar was very strong. Garland profited
greatly by this practice as well as by his
studies, which he pursued with persistent
devotion. Returning home he continued to
WOO that jealous mistress the law, and in
1853 was admittedto practice at Washington,
Arkansas. In 1855 he removed to Little Rock,
the capital of the state. He was admitted to
practice as an attorney in the supreme court
of the United States, on December 26, lsG0.
BY that time he had attained professional
reputation, and i'll the same year was a Bell
and Everett elector. He opposed the seces-
sion of Arkansas as long as there was any
hope of a peaceable solution of sectional diff
ferenceS When, however war was ineVita-
ble, he threw in his lot with his state. He
was member of the Provisional Congress
which met at Montgomery, Alabama i'll May
1861, and took part III drawing up the con-
stitution of the Confederate states During
| the struggle between the Federal and Con-
| federate governments he gave his counsel TO
| the Southern cause, first as a representative e
| and afterwards as senator. He was serving
as senator in its Congress when the Con-
| gresS collapsed. In lSo5 Mr.. Garland petit
| toned the supreme court of the United
| States to practice therein without taking
1.-The iron-clad OATH" at the same time
| submitting an argument in support OF his peti-
| ton, which was a masterpiece of reasoning
! He won his case, which was not decided
! until the December term of the supreme
court, 1867. While it was pending he was
, elected United States senator from Arkan-
sas. He appeared TO take his seat in the
Senate, March 1, 1861, but was not permitted
In lS74 Mr.. Garland was elected governor
OF Arkansas, without opposition. TO him
. was due the overthrow of carpetbag rule III
that state In less than a year after he
| DecaIne governor. the credit of Arkansas had
| improved from the value of twenty cents on
/ the dollar to sXty-five cents. This improve
| mCnt indicated the ability and success of hi,
| administration.
His first election as senator took place il
january, 1876, without opposition. He begaI
his term AS successor 10 Powell Clayton
Republican, on March 5, ls77. In 1883 h
was reelected, and his term of service viii
not expire until March 8, lSs0
But amid all the conflicting rumOrs as Il
the Cleveland cabinet, there seems to be II,
doubt anywhere that Senator Garland will b
invited to take place in it, and that hi
senatorial career for the present, is about Il
close.
This eminent man is much liked as well a
admired. He is playful as boy, AN incur
| able joker, and has fond of candy as a school
girl. In person he is well built and tall
His head is large with bulging forehead
necessitating him to wear an eight ant
| tnrpp-unlFtpr hat il atlppnl his fac,
| round, smOoth-shayed and animated witt
! black and most expressive eyes. His feature
| are good and indicate an amiabe disposition
| There are, moreover, both strength anC
| dignity expressed in his countenance. Gar
| land knows how to command and to rebuk,
| unthorouShness in work and want o
candOr, which are peculiarly abhorrent I,
him. His equipment as lawyer, charac
| teriZed as it is by vast research, includes als'
that comprehensive grasp of leading priDci
pies and imperial Independence OF judg
ment, which many men learned in the Law
| appear not to possess.