Statesmen . James A. Garfield. XI. JAMES A. GARFIELD. In his memorial oration on Garfield, Blainequoted the words in which Webster describedthe place where the elder members of the Web-ster family were born— a log cabin raisedamid the snow-drifts of New Hampshire. Theorator then said: With requisite change ofscene, the same words would aptly portray theearly days of Garfield. The poverty of thefrontier, where all are engaged in a commonstruggle, and where a common sympathy andhearty co-operation lighten the burdens of each,is a very different poverty—different in kind,different in influence an
Statesmen . James A. Garfield. XI. JAMES A. GARFIELD. In his memorial oration on Garfield, Blainequoted the words in which Webster describedthe place where the elder members of the Web-ster family were born— a log cabin raisedamid the snow-drifts of New Hampshire. Theorator then said: With requisite change ofscene, the same words would aptly portray theearly days of Garfield. The poverty of thefrontier, where all are engaged in a commonstruggle, and where a common sympathy andhearty co-operation lighten the burdens of each,is a very different poverty—different in kind,different in influence and effect—from that con-scious and humiliating indigence which is everyday forced to contrast itself with neighboringwealth on which it feels a sense of grinding de-pendence. The poverty of the frontier is indeedno poverty; it is but the beginning of wealth,and has the boundless possibilities of the futurealways opening before it. When Garfield was elected United StatesSenator from Ohio, in January, 188
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