. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . the history of our Government. The splendid and impressiveceremonial which we have just witnessed in another part of theCapitol appropriately symbolizes the triumphs of the past andthe hopes of the future. A great chieftain, whose sword at thehead of gallant and victorious armies saved the Republic fromdismemberment and ruin, has been fitly called to the highest civichonor which a grateful people can bestow. Sustained by a Con-gress that so ably represents the loyalty, t
. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . the history of our Government. The splendid and impressiveceremonial which we have just witnessed in another part of theCapitol appropriately symbolizes the triumphs of the past andthe hopes of the future. A great chieftain, whose sword at thehead of gallant and victorious armies saved the Republic fromdismemberment and ruin, has been fitly called to the highest civichonor which a grateful people can bestow. Sustained by a Con-gress that so ably represents the loyalty, the patriotism, and thepersonal worth of the nation, the President this day inauguratedwill assure to the country an administration of purity, fidelity,and prosperity; an era of liberty regulated by law, and of lawthoroughly inspired with liberty. Congratulating you, gentlemen, upon the happy auguries ofthe day, and invoking the gracious blessing of Almighty God onthe arduous and responsible labors before you, I am now ready totake the oath of ofiice and enter upon the discharge of the dutiesto which you have called -Q^^br&eo-EP^ri-- HON. JAlv^E S G. BLAINE . =-EAKEI^ OF TEE HOUSE Or PJEPKESEITTATTVE •1369-75. BLAINE AS SPEAKER. 123 The oath of office was then administered by Hon. Elihu , of Illinois, the senior member of the body. In the Chair Mr. Blaine was always courteous, so impartialthat not even his political opponents accused him of unfair-ness, decided in enforcing his rulings, and cool amidst all thetempest of debate. Mr. Banks had long been extolled as amodel Speaker, and Clays bearing in the Chair was stillremembered, but neither Clay nor Banks has left such areputation as Mr. Blaine. In this office again he had alreadyhad experience ; he had, as we have related in a previouschapter, presided with distinguished success over the stormydemocracy of Maine. He had then and there laid the founda-tion of his knowledge of parliamentary law, which his exper
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