Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1881 — Garfield’s Treatment of an Enemy. [ARTICLE]

Garfield’s Treatment of an Enemy.

Gutb In New York Trlhane. Once he burst out at the age of fortynine: “Isuppose I am foolish, but I can't* bear to go around with enmities to any- - body. There was one man who treated me so that I thought my self respect would compel me never to speak to him again. Accordingly when I was passing down - street a week ago, and he turned the corner I was approaching, and camqup the sidewalk, I raised mp head, anfl felt my nostrils swell, and made ready togo past him, till, just as I came opposite him, something took hold of me, and I crossed over and exclaimed: , you old * scoundrel, how are you?” It may be singular, but if I bad seen bim go up aud break a giants back like Samson, he could not be so vivid to me as when he told that incident. It in mind the m ystandapl portrait of him, ' £