17 of the stars.- Let us think that his dying eyes read a mystic’ meaning which only the rapt and parting soul may know. Let us believe that in the silence of the receding world he heard the great waves breaking on a further shore, and felt already upon his wasted brow the breath of the eternal morning.” | In 1881, after the death of President Garfield, he resigned the Secretaryship, and spent two years in preparing his “Twenty Years of Congress,” from Lincoln to Garfield, a fair, able, and most interesting book. In June, 1884, by the overwhelming voice of the people, James G. Blaine was NOMINATED FOR THE PRESIDENCY. Those who witnessed in Chicago, the joy of the thousands in that great Exposition Building, will never forget a scene which baffles description. Fpr nearly twenty minutes after the nomination was known, men shouted and swung their hats, tore the banners from the hall and waved them aloft, drowning alike the music of the band and the booming of cannon. The voice of the people was at last heeded, and the idolized leader placed at the helm. At his home, in Augusta, Maine, in the midst of his family, he calmly received the news. Unsought, the whole people, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, named hum as the standard bearer, and nobly will he lead to victory. “I think that I am able to judge whether a man is honest in public life or not, and I should be false to my duty and to the truth if I did not declare my solemn conviction that there is no man in public life whose public and private character is more free from stain than Mr. Blaine’s. I believe him to hav«- been actuated by the purest motives in all his public acts.”—Senator Dawes, Massachusetts. “We shall have another Republican President, and with him a government that will command respect at home and abroad; and none will rejoice more than those who have most at stake in the welfare and destinies of the country.”—Governor Long, Massachusetts. “Mr. Blaine’s was the first voice raised in the National Legislature in behalf of Irish-American citizens immured in English prisons on mere suspicion.”— General Burke, Nevo York. “The descendants of Baron Steuben, of Germany, will be honored guests of fifty million Americans, a vast number of whom have German blood in their veins, and constitute one of the most worthy and valuable elements that make up the strength of the Republic.”—-James G. Blaine. “The question of closer relationship between the United States and the Central and South American States has become one of the questions of the day. The election of Mr. Blaine to the Presidency will be a guarantee for its practical solution, since it was with him that the idea originated to unite more closely North and South America.”—Buenos Ayres Paper.
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