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JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD 191 series on Indian Affairs, covering a period of several years; one on the Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion (March 2, 1869) ; two on the Census (April 6 and December 16, 1879) ; one on Civil- Service Reform; many addresses on the silver question; and one on National aid to educa tion (February, 1872). He found time to make frequent orations and addresses before societies and gatherings outside of congress. His address on College Education, delivered before the literary societies of Hiram college (June 14, 1867), is an admirable plea for a liberal education, and on a subject in which the author was always deeply in terested. On May 30, 1868, he delivered an address on the Union Soldiers, at the first memorial service held at Arlington, Va. A eulogy of Gen. Thomas, delivered before the Army of the Cumberland, November 25, 1870, is one of the happiest of his oratorical efforts. On the reception by the house of the statues of John Winthrop and Samuel Adams, he spoke with a great wealth of historical allusion, and all his memorial addresses, especially those on his predecessor in congress, Joshua R. Giddings, Lincoln, and Profs. Morse and Henry, are worthy of study. But in all this series nothing will live longer than the simple words with which, from the balcony of the New York custom-house, he calmed the mob frenzied at the news of Lin coln s death: "Fellow-citizens: Clouds and darkness