The tragical termination of his great life added but another to the lengthened succession of horrors which had marked so many lintels with tise blood of the first born. Garfield was slain in a day of peace. when brother had been reconciled to brother. and when anger and hato 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 no give it the grim visage of Moloch. the brow knitted by revenge. the face black with settled hate. Let him draw. rather. a decorous sanoothfIeed. bloodless demon. not so much an example of hnnn nature in its depravity and in its paroxysms of crime. as an infernal being. a fiend in the ordinary display and development of his character." From the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth till the uprising against Charles I. about twenty thousand emigrants came front old England to New England. As they came in pursuit of intellectual freedom and ecclesiastical independeneerather than for worldly boner and profit. the emigration naturally ceased when the contest for religious liberty began in earnest at home. The man who struck his most effhetive blow for freedom of conscience by sailing for the colonies in 1620 would have been accounted a deserter to leave after 1640. The opportunityhad then come on the soil of England for that great contest which establishedthe authority of Parliament. gave religious freedom to the people. sent Charlesto the block. and committId to lie hands of Oliver Cromwell the supreme executive authority of England. The English emigration was never renewed. and from these twenty thousand men. with a small emigration from Scotland end from France. are descended the vast numbers who have New England blood in their veins. In 1685 the revocation of the edict of Nantes by Louis XIV seat tered to other countries four hundred thousand Protestants. who were anion- the most intelligent and enterprising of French subjectsicrcehants of capital. skilled maunfacturers. and handicraftsson. superior at the time to all others in Europe. A considerable unuiher of these Huguenot French came to America. a few landed ia New England and became honorably prominent in its history. ]heir names have in large part become anglicized. or have disappeared. but their blood is traceable ini many of the most reputable families. and their fame is perpetuated in lonorable memorials and useful institutions.
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