Excerpt from Life and Public Services of James G. Blaine: Embracing a Sketch of His Childhood and Youth; His Education; The Beginning of His Public Career; His Rise as a Statesman; His Part in the Administration of Garfield; His Literary Work, and His Nomination for the Presidency of the United States Mr. Blaine is a civilian. His tremendous influence over the Opinions and actions of his fellow-men proceeds wholly from his abilities as a statesman. Thoroughly loyal to the soldier, his own activities have been exerted in the manage ment of civil affairs, the direction of legislation. Albeit no soldier himself, he has been the soldier's champion in the arena of fierce conflict, and has won for the defenders Of the Union victories almost as renowned as those which they themselves achieved in the bloody field Of war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.