s if he can get a constituency to indorse
him. He is a voter; he can buy and he can sell; he can go and he can
come. He is as free as any man in the United States. There is a large
list of subordinate offices to which he is eligible. This bill proposes,
in view of that record, that Mr. Davis, by a two-thirds vote of the
Senate and a two-thirds vote of the House, be declared eligible and
worthy to fill any office up to the Presidency of the United States. For
one, upon full deliberation, I will not do it."

These two speeches illustrates the scope of Blaine in debate. These
speeches also clearly show why he is so dearly beloved, or so bitterly
hated. But that Mr. Blaine is an orator of the first order cannot be
gainsaid. The preceding speeches represent the highest attainment of one
ideal of an orator, and in a role in which Mr. Blaine is almost without
parallel. In his Memorial address on Garfield, delivered in the hall of
the House of Representatives, he presents the lofty style which is the
beau ideal of oratory. He spoke something as follows:

"Mr. President: For the second time in this generation the great
departments of the government of the United States are assembled in the
Hall of Representatives to do honor to the memory of a murdered
president. Lincoln fell at the close of a mighty struggle in which the
passions of men had been deeply stirred. The tragical termination of his
great life added but another to the lengthened succession of horrors
which had marked so many lintels with the blood of the first-born.
Garfield was slain in a day of peace, when brother had been reconciled
to brother, and when anger and hate had been banished from the land.
'Whoever shall hereafter draw the portrait of murder, if he will show it
as it has been exhibited where such example was last to have been looked
for, let him not give it the grim visage of Moloch, the brow knitted by
revenge, the face black with settled hate. Let him draw, rather, a
decorous, smooth-faced, bloodless demon; not so much an example of human
nature in its depravity and in its paroxisms of crime, as an infernal
being, a fiend in the ordinary display and development of his
character." * * * *

"His father dying before he was two years old, Garfield's early life was
one of privation, but its poverty has been made indelicately and
unjustly prominent. Thousands of readers have imagined him as the
ragged, starving child, whose reality too often greets the eye