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Updated: June 16, 2025
Politically speaking, different men will judge very differently of Garfield's acts in the House of Representatives.
The letter from Hubbell, to which this was a reply, was never published, and General Garfield's friends afterward maintained that he had not alluded to the "Star-route" contractors.
Although an able man and a successful lawyer, Conkling seems to have had less interest in the public welfare than in conventions, elections and patronage. The announcement of Garfield's choice of a Cabinet was the signal for a fierce patronage fight. James G. Blaine, the choice for Secretary of State, was distasteful in the extreme to Conkling.
Garfield's early career as a canal boy led to such campaign songs as the following: He early learned to paddle well his own forlorn canoe, Upon Ohio's grand canal he held the hellum true. And now the people shout to him: "Lo! 't is for you we wait. We want to see Jim Garfield guide our glorious ship of state."
So he took his Encyclopaedia its trustworthiness now established in his mind by General Garfield's letter -and began to study the lives of successful men and women.
He had reached the crest of the hill just as the second volley of bullets whizzed past him, and the next moment he was safe. A party of Thomas's troops rode out to meet him, they dashed down the hill together, and in a few more minutes Garfield's horse dropped dead at the feet of General Thomas. But the object of his ride was accomplished.
On the 14th of December orders for the field were received by Colonel Garfield's command, stationed at Camp Chase. Then came the trial of parting with wife and mother and going forth to battle and danger.
He joined a society, and soon had an opportunity of showing that he was a ready and forcible speaker. One day there came startling news to the college. Charles Sumner had been struck down in the Senate chamber by Preston S. Brooks, of South Carolina, for words spoken in debate. The hearts of the students throbbed with indignation none more fiercely than young Garfield's.
With such a firm foundation to rest upon, we do not wonder that James Garfield's life has been, and will be, an inspiration to many young men on both sides of the Atlantic. A New House Thomas leaves Home Sorrow at Parting James left to Manage the Farm The Value of Experience. At length Thomas was twenty-one, and the time had come for him to go out into the world and make a way for himself.
Indeed, geniality and warmth of manner, qualities always much prized by the social American people, were very marked traits throughout of Garfield's character, and no doubt helped him greatly in after life in, rising to the high summit which he finally reached.
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