From The Tow Path To The White House The Early Life And Public Career Of James A Garfield The Spicy Record Of A Wonderful Career Including

Author : Jas Sanks Brisbin
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ISBN 13 : 9781331289791
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book The Early Life and Public Career of James A. Garfield, Maj. Gen'l U. S written by Jas Sanks Brisbin and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Early Life and Public Career of James A. Garfield, Maj. Gen'l U. S: The Record of a Wonderful Career Which, Like That of Abraham Lincoln, by Native Energy and Untiring Industry, Led This Man From Obscurity to the Foremost Position in the Councils of the Nation The American nation is about entering on a campaign which is destined to be ever memorable in the political annals of the country. The strife of factions has already begun, and from now until the issue is decided on the 2d of next November, there will reign paramount a war of words, a hurricane of argument. The Democratic Party enters the struggle flushed with the applause of its first reputable nomination in a long period, and confident that the waiting honors are to be its own. The Republican Party presents a man for the suffrages of the nation, who fitly and fully embodies in his public services the grand principles for which the party has victoriously striven during a deserved ascendency of twenty years. It would have been more than wonderful, if during this long continuance in power, the Republican Party had not some act to regret, some measure of the public welfare unfulfilled to lament, some blunder for which to need an apology. It is impossible in the procession of measures and men to avoid here and there a failure. The ideal is never accomplished. Remembering this, the defections, the grumblings, the dissatisfaction that sprung up within the party four years ago are readily understood and appreciated. These were based partly upon the unfitness of a great soldier to be a great statesman. This is no disparagement of the military achievements of General Grant, they stand unrivaled in the history of the New World. But as a statesman, in the eyes of some, he was a failure. He had not the necessary training; for, clearly, his life was intended to be shaped with the sword. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.