A history of the American nation . esentment of thatS^e^e^te^ °^ Senator. For some years it had been thought to be the right of the senators to dictate the moreimportant appointments within their respective States. Thisprinciple the President had violated. To carry out and sub-stantiate this right and prerogative Conkling and his colleaguein the Senate, Thomas C. Piatt, resigned, appealing, as it were,to their State for ratification of their conduct in resisting thePresident. The Legislature, however, refused to re-elect thetwo senators. Perhaps these heated controver-sies and the consequent e
A history of the American nation . esentment of thatS^e^e^te^ °^ Senator. For some years it had been thought to be the right of the senators to dictate the moreimportant appointments within their respective States. Thisprinciple the President had violated. To carry out and sub-stantiate this right and prerogative Conkling and his colleaguein the Senate, Thomas C. Piatt, resigned, appealing, as it were,to their State for ratification of their conduct in resisting thePresident. The Legislature, however, refused to re-elect thetwo senators. Perhaps these heated controver-sies and the consequent excitement in political circlesAssassination of brought about indi- the President, , , , . , July, 1881. rectly the death 01 thePresident. A hare-brained fanatic by the name ofGuiteau came to Washington as anapplicant for office. As he did notmeet with success, his mind seemsto have been preyed upon by hisfailure and inflamed by the politi-cal discussions with which the airwas heavy. He became imbuedwith a hatred of the President,. was personal. Their petty squabbles do not furnish pleasant reading, butthey were not unimportant; they disclose to us a condition of things inwhich office-holding and the right to dictation and rule within the partyappeared more important than real, vital issues of principle; and yet at thatvery moment the wise management of the government, the care for thepyblic domain, the control of the railroads, a thousand delicate tasksdemanded attention—if the warring political leaders had only seen them,or if the people had bade them cease their noise and consider their different would have been the condition of the country to-day if themen in the eighties had fully comprehended the meaning of the changingand developing business life of the time, and had ceased their quarrels \ 470 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION and cherished the idea that his death would unite the the morning of July 2d, as Garfield was entering a railwaystation in Was
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