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WAR PREPARATIONS IN THE NORTH.

STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS . FROM A DAGUERREOTYPE TAKEN IN 1852.

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dragging himself to the ordinary labors of life from some terrible andrecent bereavement.

We talked of our personal duty, and though both Garfield and myself hadyoung families, we were agreed that our activity in the organization and sup-port of the Republican party made the duty of supporting the Governmentby military service come peculiarly home to us. He was, for the moment,somewhat trammeled by his half-clerical position, but he very soon cut theknot. My own path seemed unmistakably plain. He, more careful for hisfriend than for himself, urged upon me his doubts whether my physicalstrength was equal to the strain that would be put upon it. “ I,” said he, “ ambig and strong, and if my relations to the church and the college can beloosened, I shall have no excuse for not enlisting; but you are slender and