The Life, Speeches and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield of OhioB. B. Russell & Company, 1880 - 356 pages |
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Page 63
... their volumes to him . His neighbors say that he learned much more in his early days by read- ing history and studying stories of scientific discov- ery out of school than he ever gained from teachers OF GENERAL JAMES A. GARFIELD . 63.
... their volumes to him . His neighbors say that he learned much more in his early days by read- ing history and studying stories of scientific discov- ery out of school than he ever gained from teachers OF GENERAL JAMES A. GARFIELD . 63.
Page 69
... learned of the nation could scarcely have been more discouraging than it was then . What had chopping wood , boiling salts , digging ditches in the meadows , and milking cows , to do with refinement and intellectual cultivation ...
... learned of the nation could scarcely have been more discouraging than it was then . What had chopping wood , boiling salts , digging ditches in the meadows , and milking cows , to do with refinement and intellectual cultivation ...
Page 74
... learned that his cousins were soon to start out with a canal boat , owned by his uncle , to bring coal from the mines to Cleve- land , on the Ohio Canal . Hearing of no other employment , he asked the privilege of going with the boat in ...
... learned that his cousins were soon to start out with a canal boat , owned by his uncle , to bring coal from the mines to Cleve- land , on the Ohio Canal . Hearing of no other employment , he asked the privilege of going with the boat in ...
Page 77
... learned to swim and he was in great danger of drowning . Fortunately , the rope which was the cause of the accident lay in the water within reach , and he had the presence of mind to clutch it , while the hands on the boat pulled him ...
... learned to swim and he was in great danger of drowning . Fortunately , the rope which was the cause of the accident lay in the water within reach , and he had the presence of mind to clutch it , while the hands on the boat pulled him ...
Page 86
... learned inside the halls of a col- lege building . They can all be learned elsewhere ; and to be a leader among men , much that is more difficult and more profound must be acquired away from them . The boy who has graduated from a col ...
... learned inside the halls of a col- lege building . They can all be learned elsewhere ; and to be a leader among men , much that is more difficult and more profound must be acquired away from them . The boy who has graduated from a col ...
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Page 214 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Page 226 - 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 218 - 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, The centre of a world's desire...
Page 228 - 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 226 - I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Page 219 - 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 331 - ... upon the party in power. Without such restraint party rule becomes tyrannical and corrupt. The prosperity which is made possible in the South, by its great advantages of soil and climate, will never be realized until every voter can freely and safely support any party he pleases. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.
Page 228 - What I do about Slavery and the Colored Race, I do because I believe it helps to save...
Page 328 - Republican firesides, where the thoughtful fathers, with wives and children about them, with the calm thoughts inspired by love of home and...
Page 227 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.