Orleans County Monitor

"GIVE THEM HAIL COLUMBIA."

Colonel Garfield had been fighting five hours, with 1400 men against 5000. It has been a bloody and desperate contest, with the advantage now on one side and now on the other. Night was coming on, and so was help under the gallant Sheldon. It was a moment for supreme action. Throwing his coat off, which caught on the limb of a tree, Colonel Garfield placed himself at the head of his men and exclaimed, "Come on, boys, we must give them Hail Columbia." And they did, winning one of the most brilliant little engagements of the war.

President Garfield has taken off his coat. Whether it hangs on a peg in the White House or on one of the fragrant magnolias, it matters not. His coat is off. For two months he has been dallying with the Senate, and the Senate with the public business, to the annoyance of the Administration and the damage of the public interest. Just when the deadlock has been broken and the prospect promised a victory for business and progress, the Senate caucus hung up the most important nomination made since the Cabinet was announced; or, what is the same thing, put it into the power of any Senator to hurry it up by his single objection.

Nobody knows what the President thought at this juncture. Nobody knows exactly what Colonel Garfield thought at the close of that midwinter day in Eastern Kentucky when he looked and saw the odds against him and the dead and dying around him. We know what he did. He took off his coat and out rang the order, "Give them Hail Columbia." The withdrawal of Woodford, Tenney, and Payn was only treating the Republican caucus to a little "Hail Columbia."

It was showing the mettle of a man no matter how great the odds against him. It meant a grapple and a pitched battle with the giant of the Senate over the prerogatives of the President of the United States which have been long and insidiously encroached upon. It meant that the Senate should learn to respect its antagonist as General Marshall learned to respect his on Middle creek in old "Kaintuck." It was a call to the country—a "Come on, boys"—to follow a leader at the head of the nation who has never yet been led to defeat.—Nashua Telegraph.