. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . m-mittee-rooms, as an authority whose judgment could not beblinded and whose conduct was beyond impeachment. Inthose dangerous times when the fate of armies, nay, even ofthe Nation, was in the balance, such qualities as Mr. Blainedisplayed were of higher value to the country than mereresounding displays of eloquence. Perhaps the most im-portant committees on which Mr. Blaine served at this earlyperiod were those on Militia and on Post Offices, to which hehad been appoint
. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . m-mittee-rooms, as an authority whose judgment could not beblinded and whose conduct was beyond impeachment. Inthose dangerous times when the fate of armies, nay, even ofthe Nation, was in the balance, such qualities as Mr. Blainedisplayed were of higher value to the country than mereresounding displays of eloquence. Perhaps the most im-portant committees on which Mr. Blaine served at this earlyperiod were those on Militia and on Post Offices, to which hehad been appointed by Speaker Colfax. He did not speakoften, and his words were always weighty when some subjectof importance called him to address the Chair ; the motionshe made and the objections he offered were always effectiveand well considered, and in this respect his training asSpeaker of the Maine Legislature was of inestimable value ;it had given him a perfect knowledge of that most difficultsubject. Parliamentary Law, and thus he could see at oncewhen a motion or a point of order would accomplish morethan an eloquent Blaines first term in congress. 83 His personal influence was not at first felt so mucli as thatof some of the more demonstrative members who, with him,made in this year their appearance in National politics, but itsteadily increased as his acquaintance with his colleagues ex-tended. His knowledge of debate, his mastery of facts, hisbroad judgment, soon told on his associates, and he was recog-nized as one of the master minds of the Legislature. Amongthose who sat with him in his first term were Elihu B. Wash-burn, W. S. Holman, Dan W. Voorhees, Godlove S. Orth,Schuyler Colfax, Oakes Ames, W. R. Morrison, J. A. Kasson,W. Windom, James F. Wilson, S. S. Cox, Henry L. Dawes,George S. Boutwell, Foster E. Fenton, M. Russell Thayer,Thaddeus Stevens, James Brooks, George H. Pendleton,James A. Garfield, and others well known to fame, who gladlyextended the hand of welco
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