Excerpt from Garfield's Career: From the Tow-Path to the White House, His Seventy-Nine Days' Struggle for Life, and the Public Obsequies

E life ofjames A. Garfield reads like a romance. So humble was his origin. So obstructed was his path in boyhood and early manhood. So uniform and steady was his later success. Until he was called to the highest place in the gift of the Republic: while the tragedy of his sudden and violent death. Preceded by more than eleven weeks of heroic endur ance. Provoked the sympathy of the civilized world. And has made his name a household word among the one hundred millions of Anglican birth and speech.

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