We stand to-day upon an eminence which overlooks a hundred years of national life--a century crowded with perils, but crowned with the triumphs of liberty and law. Before continuing the onward ...

Obverse: Bust of James Garfield facing right. Legend: 20TH PRESIDENT, U.S.A./ 1881-DIED/ ASSASSINATED/ JAMES A. GARFIELD. Reverse: "TEACHER PRESIDENT"/ "NOT A MAN OF IRON, BUT OF LIVE OAK"/ MAJ. GEN.

HANCOCK AND GARFIELD. Share full article. Feb. 19, 1886. ... that he intended to go to Washington to attend the inauguration of President Garfield: View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

General Garfield is eminently a practical politician, and we need not fear that he will make a visionary administration, reaching out after the impossible, or trying to take ten steps at once.

Inauguration Day is less than three weeks away. ... President Chester Arthur took the oath privately following the death of President James Garfield and again two days later in the Capitol.