From canal boy to president, or, The boyhood and manhood of James AGarfield . now light, now heavily,According to the stature of the , like an oak of healthiest bough,Deep-rooted in his countrys love, he stood. 10 CHAPTEE XXXTI. FROM CANAL-BOY TO PRESIDENT. James A. Garfield had been elected to tlieUnited States Senate, but he was never a memberof that body. Before the tune came for him totake his seat he had been invested with a higherdignity. Xever before in our history has thesame man been an actual member of the Houseof Representatives, a Senator-elect, and President-elect
From canal boy to president, or, The boyhood and manhood of James AGarfield . now light, now heavily,According to the stature of the , like an oak of healthiest bough,Deep-rooted in his countrys love, he stood. 10 CHAPTEE XXXTI. FROM CANAL-BOY TO PRESIDENT. James A. Garfield had been elected to tlieUnited States Senate, but he was never a memberof that body. Before the tune came for him totake his seat he had been invested with a higherdignity. Xever before in our history has thesame man been an actual member of the Houseof Representatives, a Senator-elect, and President-elect. On the Sth of June, 1880, the Republican Con-vention at Ohicaoro selected Garfield as theirstandard-bearer on the thirty-sixth ballot. Noone, probably, was more surprised or bewilderedthan Garfield himself, who was a member of theConvention, when State after State declared inhis favor. In his loyalty to John Sherman, of hisown State, wdiom he had set in nomination in aneloquent speech, lie tried to avert the result, but in vain. He was known by the friends of other(290). JAMES A. GAB FIELD. 291 candidates to be thoi-onglilv equipped for thehighest office in the peoples gift, and he was thesecond choice of the majority. Maiy Clemmer, the brilKant Washington corre-spondent, writes of the scene thus: For daysbefore, many tiiat would not confess it felt thathe was the coming man, because of the acclaimof the people whenever Garfield appeared. Theculminating moment came. Other names seemedto sail out of sight like thistledown on the wind,till one (how glowing and living it was) wascaught by the galleries, and shout on shout arosewith the accumulative force of ascending breakers,till the vast amphitheater was deluged with sound-ing and resounding acclaim, such as a man coulihope would envelope and uplift his name but oncein a life-time. And he ? There he stood, strong,Saxon, fair, debonair, yet white as new snow, andtrembling like an aspen. It seemed too much,this sudden storm of a
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