There towers to the sky a monument of four million pairs of human fetters taken from the arms of slaves, and I read on its little headstone this, 'Sacred to the memory of Human Slavery'. For forty years of its infamous life the Democratic Party taught that it was divine; God's institution. They defended it, they stood around it, they followed it to its grave as a mourner. But here it lies, dead by the hand of Abraham Lincoln; dead by the power of the Republican Party, dead by the justice of Almighty God. Don't camp there, young man. That is no place in which to put your young life. Come out, and come over into this camp of liberty, of order, of law, of justice, of freedom, of all that is glorious under these night stars.


An Appeal to Young Men (1879)

James A. Garfield Quotes

There towers to the sky a monument of four million pairs of human fetters taken from the arms of slaves, and I read on its little headstone this,...

There towers to the sky a monument of four million pairs of human fetters taken from the arms of slaves, and I read on its little headstone this,...

There towers to the sky a monument of four million pairs of human fetters taken from the arms of slaves, and I read on its little headstone this,...

There towers to the sky a monument of four million pairs of human fetters taken from the arms of slaves, and I read on its little headstone this,...