On the record
Garfield, when I can say some things which ought to be said, and for which there is not room in this book and was not room in the eulogy delivered just after his death.
Source
gutenberg.orgGeorge F. Hoar: “Garfield, when I can say some things which ought to be said, and for which there is not room in this book and was not…”
Editor's note · Context
Hoar indicates that he has more to say about Garfield than what was included in his eulogy.
Share
More from George F. Hoar
We speak of a light that makes darkness visible; and similarly there are sounds that deepen the long intervals of silence with which they alternate.
We bring you the heart's love of Boston where you were born, and Worcester where you took the early vows you have kept so well; of Massachusetts who knows she has no worthier son, and of the great and free country to whom you have taught…
Nov 15, 2021
This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.
We are here in the sweet silence of a summer morning, eighteen hundred years after such a scene, and able mentally to catch some glimpse of it; some echo of the storm that has left behind it so ineffaceable a mark.
Other voices in this conversation
