The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James A. Garfield, Twentieth President of the United States: Including an Account of His Assassination, Lingering Pain, Death and BurialEdward Garfield (b. 1575), the immigrant ancestor of President James A. Garfield, was living in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635. Descendants migrated to Ohio, where James Abram Garfield was born in 1831, the son of Abram Garfield. |
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... Samuel Adams . - The Gift of Massachusetts . - General Gar- field's Tribute to New England . - The Lesson of Self - restraint . Remarks upon the Death of Senator Morton , CHAPTER XVII . • PERIOD OF UNPOPULARITY . -- - • - 216 His ...
... Samuel Adams . - The Gift of Massachusetts . - General Gar- field's Tribute to New England . - The Lesson of Self - restraint . Remarks upon the Death of Senator Morton , CHAPTER XVII . • PERIOD OF UNPOPULARITY . -- - • - 216 His ...
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... SAMUEL ADAMS . -THE GIFT OF MASSACHUSETTS . - - GENERAL GARFIELD'S TRIBUTE TO NEW ENG- LAND . THE LESSON OF SELF - RESTRAINT , - REMARKS UPON THE DEATH OF SENATOR MORTON . On the first anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln , and ...
... SAMUEL ADAMS . -THE GIFT OF MASSACHUSETTS . - - GENERAL GARFIELD'S TRIBUTE TO NEW ENG- LAND . THE LESSON OF SELF - RESTRAINT , - REMARKS UPON THE DEATH OF SENATOR MORTON . On the first anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln , and ...
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... Samuel Adams , and was delivered December 19 , 1876 , the House then having under consideration the following res- olution : IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES . December 19 , 1876 . Resolved by the Senate , ( the House of Representa ...
... Samuel Adams , and was delivered December 19 , 1876 , the House then having under consideration the following res- olution : IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES . December 19 , 1876 . Resolved by the Senate , ( the House of Representa ...
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... Samuel Adams . glad to see this decisive , though tardy , acknowledg- ment of his great and signal services to America . I doubt if any man equaled Samuel Adams in formu- lating and uttering the fierce , clear and inexorable logic of ...
... Samuel Adams . glad to see this decisive , though tardy , acknowledg- ment of his great and signal services to America . I doubt if any man equaled Samuel Adams in formu- lating and uttering the fierce , clear and inexorable logic of ...
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Page 208 - WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, DO ORDAIN AND ESTABLISH THIS CONSTITUTION.
Page 220 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Page 222 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause; and I shall do more whenever I believe doing more will help the cause.
Page 363 - THOU art gone to the grave ; but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb ; The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee, And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom.
Page 213 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 324 - I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man ; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.
Page 224 - I have not so much of the confidence of the people as I had some time since, I do not know that, all things considered, any other person has more; and, however this may be, there is no way in which I can have any other man put where I am.
Page 211 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope...
Page 222 - What I do about Slavery and the Colored Race, I do because I believe it helps to save...
Page 325 - ... there God prepares the verdict that shall determine the wisdom of our work to-night.