The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield

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Author

Brown, E. E. (Emma Elizabeth), 1847-

Title

The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield Twentieth President of the United States, Including Full and Accurate Details of His Eventful Administration, Assassination, Last Hours, Death, Etc., Together with Notable Extracts from His Speeches and Letters

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Language

English

LoC Class

E660: History: America: Late nineteenth century (1865-1900)

Subject

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

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Text

eBook-No.

34217

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34217

Release Date

November 6, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE
2. 2.BY E. E. BROWN.
3. 3.DEDICATION.
4. 4.INTRODUCTION. — BY REV. A. J. GORDON, D. D.
5. 5.CONTENTS.
6. 6.LIFE OF JAMES A. GARFIELD
7. 7.CHAPTER I.
8. 8.CHAPTER II.
9. 9.CHAPTER III.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV.
11. 11.CHAPTER V.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI.
13. 13.CHAPTER VII.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII.
15. 15.CHAPTER IX.
16. 16.CHAPTER X.
17. 17.CHAPTER XI.
18. 18.CHAPTER XII.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV.
21. 21.CHAPTER XV.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI. — FOOTNOTES:
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII.
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX.
26. 26.CHAPTER XX.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXI. — TO JAMES A. GARFIELD.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXII.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXV. — FOOTNOTES:
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVI.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVII — FOOTNOTES:
34. 34.CHAPTER XXVIII.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXIX.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXX.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXI.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXII.
39. 39.CHAPTER. XXXIII.
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXIV
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXV.
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVI.
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVII.
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXVIII.
45. 45.CHAPTER XXXIX.
46. 46.CHAPTER XL.
47. 47.CHAPTER XLI.
48. 48.CHAPTER XLII.
49. 49.CHAPTER XLIII.
50. 50.CHAPTER XLIV.
51. 51.CHAPTER XLV.
52. 52.CHAPTER XLVI.
53. 53.CHAPTER XLVII. — PRESIDENT GARFIELD. — BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. — " E venni dal martirio a questa pace. " — GARFIELD, PRESIDENT OF THE PEOPLE. — (Died Sept. 19, 1881.) — PRESIDENT GARFIELD. — AFTER THE BURIAL. — BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES — SONNET—JAMES A. GARFIELD. — BY REV. H. BERNARD CARPENTER — MIDNIGHT. — September 19, 1881. — BY JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY. — REJOICE. — BY JOAQUIN MILLER. — " Bear me out of the battle, for lo! I am sorely wounded. " — J. A. G. — HUMANITAS REGNANS. — BY M. J. SAVAGE. — J. A. G. — BY JULIA WARD HOWE. — HOME AT LAST. — BY ROSE TERRY COOK. — AN ODE ON THE ASSASSINATION. — FATHERLESS. — BY KATE TANNATT WOODS.
54. 54.CHAPTER XLVIII. — [Speech on the Currency.—46th Congress.] — [Letter to B. A. Kimball.] — [To the Same.] — [Speech on a Draft Bill, June 21, 1864.] — [Speech in New York City, 1865, on the Assassination of President Lincoln.] — [Speech in Congress on the Constitutional Amendment to abolish slavery, January 13, 1865] — [Reply to Mr. Lamar, in a Committee of the Whole.] — [From a Speech in Congress, 1866.] — [Letter to A. B. Hinsdale.] — [From an Address at Hiram College, June 14, 1867.] — [From the Same.] — [From the Same] — [Speech in the House of Representatives, February 12, 1867.] — WILLIAM H. SEWARD. [D] — [Speech on the Currency Question, 1868.] — [A Speech on Currency and the Banks, 1870.] — [From a Speech in the House, April 1, 1870.] — [Speech on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, April 4, 1871.] — [Letter to Professor Demmon December 16, 1871.] — [Speech on the last Census.] — [Speech on National Aid to Education, February 6, 1872.] — [From a Speech on Repealing the Salary Clause, 1873.] — [Letter to B. A. Hinsdale, 1874.] — [Speech on the Currency and the Public Faith, April 8, 1874.] — [Speech on the Railway Problem, June 22, 1874.] — [From a Speech in the House of Representatives, June, 1874.] — [Letter to A. B. Hinsdale, 1876.] — [From "Life and Character of Almeda A. Booth," June 22, 1876.] — [From the Same.] — [From the Same.] — [From the "Atlantic Monthly," July, 1877.] — [From the "North American Review," May-June, 1878.] — [From a Speech at Faneuil Hall, Boston, September 11, 1878.] — [From an Address at Hiram College.] — [From a Speech on the Ninth Census.] — [From a Speech, December 10, 1878.] — [From a Speech, June 2, 1879.] — [Address, at the Memorial Meeting, in the House of Representatives, January 16, 1879.] — [On the Relation of the Government to Science, February 11, 1879.] — [Speech on the National Election.] — [Remarks, in the House of Representatives, February 11, 1879, on the Life and Character of Gustave Schleicher.] — [From the "North American Review," March, 1879.] — [From the Same, June, 1879.] — [Speech in Congress, on the first anniversary of Mr. Lincoln's death.] — [Speech at Cleveland, Ohio, October 11, 1879.—Resumption of Specie Payments.] — [Speech at Cleveland, October 11, 1879.—Appeal to Young Men.] — [From a Speech, January 14, 1880.] — [Letter of Acceptance, July 10, 1880.] — [From a Speech, at the unveiling of a Soldiers' Monument Painesville, Ohio, July 4, 1880.] — [Speech to a Delegation of four hundred Young Men—First Voters—of Cleveland, Ohio, at Mentor, October 8, 1880.] — [From a Speech in New York, August 6, 1880.] — [Remarks at Chatauqua August 1, 1880] — [From an Address at the Anniversary of Hiram College, directly after the Chicago Convention, 1880.] — FOOTNOTES:
55. 55.THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS. — PRESIDENT GARFIELD'S FIRST OFFICIAL WORDS TO THE COUNTRY.
56. 56.ADDENDA. — I. — II. — III. — SENATOR HOAR'S ADDRESS. — IV. — HON. JAMES G. BLAINE'S EULOGY. — IV. — A THRENODY ON GARFIELD. — BY MRS. ELLEN KEY BLUNT.

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