Our Martyred President As A Man PDF Download

Excerpt from Our Martyred President; As a Man, the Niblest and Purest of His Times, as a Citizen, the Grandest of His Nation, as a President, the Idol of Fifty Millions of People: The Life and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield, Twentieth President of the United States T is the pride and boast of America that this is a country of self-made men. However humble may be the position Of a man, it is within his power, in this land of equality and Republican Institutions, to attain the highest honors within the gift of his fellow-citizens. Our history is full of the names of men who, without friends or fortune to aid them, have risen by the force of their own abilities to the proudest position in the Republic - washington, Jefferson, Marshall, Clay, Lin coln and their glorious compeers, were all self-made men, and carved out their great successes by their own unaided efforts. Their example shines out brightly to encourage and cheer others who are struggling onward in the road by which they climbed to greatness. 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.