Excerpt from The Life, Character and Public Services of Jas, A. Garfield

Part First of the following volume appeared two years ago in "Willianis' History of Geauga and Lake Counties, Ohio." It has a completeness in itself, not quite in harmony with the more extended work with which it is now incorporated. It was written for the purpose of exhibiting the man during the years of his growth, to show what he grew to be, and was capable of, rather than to set forth what he had already achieved. It has a freedom of criticism not to be expected in a sketch produced on the eve of a national canvass to influence voters in favor of a candidate for the Presidency.

For these reasons it is inserted here entire with no changes, save the brief mention of the ancestry and other touches, such as the author would have given on a final revision of the proof.

It covers the period from the birth of Mr. Glarfield until he appears in congress, where I now take up the rapid sketch of his career, and in the shall of that which precedes it, shall endeavor to carry it forward to the present. In so broad a life the incidents and events of it must be selected from, and subjected to, a rapid treatment.

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