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Newspaper
Garfield Memorial
Location
Garfield, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1882
Page
1
Full text of Blaine’s memorial oration delivered before Civil and military dignitaries. Includes Bliss’s report on Garfield’s wounding and death, an outline of the President’s character by a admirer, and the widow’s home life in Cleveland.
The poem commemorates a brave figure who passed through Elberon amid serene honor. It honors a man described as armored, bright, and pure of soul, who died last night at Elberon. The verses praise his transcendent worth and carry hopeful contrasts for despairing communities.
The February 27 memorial services for James A. Garfield took place in the House and Senate with a large, varied crowd. Speakers included James G. Blaine whose restrained, moving eulogy drew tears as the chamber paid tribute to the late president.
The piece praises President Garfield praising his lineage from English Puritans and French Huguenots and his frontier poverty as mere beginnings of wealth. It notes his ancestry including Abram Garfield and Eliza Ballou and his pride in descent from patriots who fought for liberty. It recounts Garfield’s early hardship, self reliance, and commitment to education from reading at age three to teaching by eighteen and entering Williams College at twenty-two.
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