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CIIAS. JONES, Editor and Prop'tor. XanBXD at Tm FonOmin t cusuma, N. a. AS 8B001TD-CL1S3 MATTKB.1 TUESDAY, FEB. 28, 1882. GARFIELD MEMOBIALConcladed. Hou3e when he entered, and was but seven years from his college, gradua tion. But he had not been in his seat sixty days before his ability was recog nized and his place conceded. He step ped to the front with the confidence of one who belonged there. The House was crowded with strong men of both Earties; nineteen of them have since een tranf erred to the Senate, and many of them have served with distinction in the gubernatorial chairs of their re spective States, and on foreign missions of great consequence ; but among them all none grew so rapidly, none so firmly as Garfield. As is said by Tevelyan of his parliamentary hero, Garfield suc ceeded "because all the world in concert could not have kept him in the back ground, and because when once in the front he played his part with a prompt intrepidity and a commanding ease that were but the outward symptoms of the immense reserves of energy, on which it was in his power to draw." Indeed the apparently reserved force which Garfield possessed was one of his great characteristics. He never did so well but that it seemed he could easily have done better. He never expended so much strength but that he seemed to be holding additional power at call. This is one of the happiest and rarest distinctions of an effective debater, and often counts for as much in persuading an assembly as the eloquent and elabo rate argument. The great measure of Garfield's fame was filled by his service in the House of Representatives. His military life, illustrated by honorable performance, and rich in promise, was, as he himself felt, prematurely terminated, and ne eeaaarilv incomplete. Speculation as to what he might have done in a field, where the great prizes are so few, can not be profitable. It is sufficient to say that as a soldier he did his duty brave ly ; he did it intelligently ; he won an enviable fame, and he retired from the service without blot or breath against him. As a lawyer, though admirably equipped for the profession, he can scarcelv be said to have entered on its practice. The few efforts he made at the bar were distinguished by the same hieh order of talent which he exhibited on every field where he was put to the test, and if a man may be accepted as a competent judge of bis own capacities and adaptations, the law was the pro fession to which Garheld should have devoted himself. But fate ordained otherwise, and his reputation in history will rest largely upon his service in the House of Representatives. That service was exceptionally long. He was nine times consecutively chosen to the House an honor enioyed by not more than six other Representatives of the more than five thousand who have been elected from the organization of the govern ment to this hour. As a parliamentary orator, as a de bater on an issue squarely joined, where the position had been chosen and the ground laid out, Garfield must be assigned a very high rant. More, per haps, than any man .with whom he was associated in public life, he gave care ful and systematic study to public ques tions and he came to every discussion in which he took part, with elaborate and complete preparation. Jtie was a steady and indefatigable worker. Those who imagine that talent or genius can supply the place or achieve the results of labor will find no encouragement in Garfield's life. In preliminary work he was apt, rapid, and skillful. He pos sessed in a high degree th power of readilv absorbing ideas and tcts, and like Dr. JohDSon, bad the art )i getting from a book all tnat as or value in it by a reading appareiiiiy so quick and cursory that it" seemed like a mere glance at the table of contents. He was a pre eminently fair and candid man in debate, took no petty advantage, sto) ed to no unworthy methods, avoided personal allusions, rarely appealed to prejudice, did not seek to inflame pas sion. He had a quicker eye tor the strong point of his adversary than for his weak point, and on his own side he so marshaled his weighty arguments as to make his. hearers forget any possible lack in the complete strength of his position. He had a habit of stating his opponent's side with such amplitude of fairness and such liberality of conces sion that hi3 followers often complain ed that he was giving his case away But never in his prolonged participa tion in the proceedings of the House did he give his case away, or fail in the judgment of competent and impartial listeners to gain the mastery. These characteristics, which marked Garfield a3 a great debater, did not, however, make him a great parliamen tary leader. A parliamentary leader, as that term is understood wherever free representative government exists, is necessarily and very strictly the or gan of his party. An ardent American uennea tne instinctive warmth of pa- tiotism when he offered the toast, "Our country, always right, but right or wrong, our country." The parliament ary leader who baa a body of followers that will do and dare and die for the cause, is one who believes his party al ways right, but right or wrong, is for nis party, jn o more important or ex acting duty devolves upon him than the selection oz the held and the time for contest. He must know not merely how to strike, but where to strike and when to strike. He often skillfully avoids the strength of his opponent s position and scatters confusion in his ranks by attacking an exposed point wnen reany tne righteousness of the cause and the strength of logical in irencnmeni, are against him. lie con quers often both against the right and i,ne nwayy oauanons; as when young Charles Fox, in the days of his torvism. carried the House of Commons against Justice, against its immemorial rights, against his own convictions, if, indeed, A. A,t i 2 J 1 ... at that period Fox haoYconvictions. and: in the interest of a corrupt administra- tion, in obedience to a tyrannical sov- ereign, drove Wilkes from the seat to which the electors of Middlesex had chosen him and installed Luttrell in defiance, not merely of law but of pub lie decency, nor an achievement of that kind Garfield was disaiialifiH disqualified by the texture of his mind, Dy tne nonsiy ot ins neart, Dy his con- science, auu uy ovcijr instinct ana aspi ration of his nature. The three most distinguished parlia mentary leaders hitherto developed in this country are Mr. Clay, Mr. Douglas, andThaddeus sevens, j&acn was a man of consummate ability, of great flameatness. of intense personality, dif fering widely, each from the others, oii vat with a signal trait in common the power to command. In the give and take of daily discussion, in the art nf cnntrnllincr and consolidating reluc tant and refractory followers; m the 'ab-ni frt nvormmfl all forms or opposi tion, and to meet with competency and courage the varying phases ofunlook ed for assault or unsuspected defection, it would be difficult to rank with these a fourth name in all our Congressional history. But of these Mr. Clay was the frSSSt It would, perhaps, be impos Sibletofindin the Parliamentary an nals of the world a parallel toMr. Clay, in 1841, when at sixty-four years otage he took the control of thebig party from the President who had received their suffrages, against the ;POwer oi : Webster inthe Cabinet, against the elo quence of Choate in the Senate, against the Herculean efforts of Caleb dishing and Henry A. Wise in the House. M j unshared leadership, in the pride and i nliii!tiiil nr nnwpr lifi hurled usrainst John Tyler with deepest scorn thmass of that conquering column which had swept over the land in 1840, and drove his administration to seek sueuer oo hind the lines of his political foes. Mr. Douglas achieved a victory scarcely less wonderful when, in 1854, against the secret desires of a strong adminis tration, against the wise counsel of the older chiefs, against the conservative instincts and even the moral sense of the country, ie forced a reluctant Con gress into a repeal of the Missouri com- promise. mi mauacuo ou:vciir iu uu contests from 1865 to 1868 actually ad vanced his parliamentary leadership until Concress tinl the hands of the President and governed the country by its own will, leaving only perfunctory duties to be discharged by the Execu tive. With two hundred millions of patronage in his hands at the opening OI tne COmest, aiuuu uy wie iii;wYo iuiuo of Seward in the Cabinet and the moral Sower of Chase on the Bench, Andrew ohnson could not command the sup port of one-third in either House against the Parliamentary Uprising of which Tnauaeus Stevens was tne ani mating spirit and the unquestioned leader. From these three crreat men Garfield differed radically, differed in the quali ty of his mind, in temperament, in the form and phase of ambition. He could not do what they did, but he could do what they could not, and in the oreaatn of his Congressional work, he left that which will longer exert a potential in fluence among men, and which, meas ured by the severe test or postnumous criticism, will secure a more enduring and more enviable fame. Those unfamiliar with Garheld s in dustry, and ignorant of - the details of his work, may, in some degree, measure them by the annals of Congress. No one of the generation of public men to which he belonged has contributed so much that will be valuable for fu ture reference." His speeches are num erous, many of them brilliant, all of them well studied, carefully phrased, and exhaustive of the subject under consideration. Collected from the scat tered pages of ninety royal octavo vpl umes of Congressional Records, they would present an invaluable compen dium of the political history, of the most important era through which the national government has ever Passed. When the history of this period shall be impartially written, when war legis lation, measures of reconstruction, pro tection of human rights, amendments to the constitution, maintenance of public credit, steps towards specie re sumption, true theories of revenue may be reviewed, unsurrounded by preju dice and disconnected from partisan- ism, the speeches of Garfield will be es timated at their ti ue value, and will be found to comprise a vast magazine of fact and argument, of clear analysis and sound conclusion. Indeed, if no other authority were accessible, his speeches in the House of Reprrsenta- tives from Decemoer, isoa, to June, 1880. would give a well connected his tory and complete defense of the im portant legislation of the seventeen eventful years that constituted his Par liamentary life. Far beyond that, his speeches would be found to forecast many great measures, yet to be com pleted measures which he knew were beyond the public opinion of the hour, but which he confidently believed would secure popular approval within the period of his own lifetime, and by the aid of his own eflorts. Differing, as Garfield does, from the brilliant Parliamentary leaders, it is not easy to find his counterpart any where in the record of American pub lic life. He perhaps more nearly resem bles Mr. Seward in his supreme faith in the all-conquering power of a principle. He had the love of learning, and the pa tient industry of investigation, to w hieh John Ijuincy Adams owes his promi nence and his Presidency. He had some of those ponderous elements of mind which distinguished Mr. Webster, and which indeed, in all our public life have left the great Massachusetts Sena tor without an intellectual peer. In English parliamentary history, as in our own, the leaders in the House of Commons present points of essential difference from Garfield. But some of his methods recall the best features in the strong, independent course of Sir Robert Peel, and striking resemblances are discernible in that most promising of modern conservatives, who died too early for his country and 'his fame, the Liord George Bentick. He had all of Uurke s loye for the sublime and beau tiful, with possibly, something of his superabundance; and in his faith and his magnanimity, in his power of state ment, in his subtle analysis, in his fault less logic, in his love of literature, in his wealth' and world of illustration. one is reminded of that great English statesman of to-day, who, confronted with obstacles that would daunt any but the dauntless, reviled by those whom he would relieve as bitterly as by those whose supposed rights he is forced to invade, still labors with serene courage for the amelioration of Ireland, and for the honor of the En glish name. Garheld s nomination to the presiden cy, while not predicted or anticipated was not a surprise to the country. His prominence in Congress, his solid quali ties, his wide reputation, strengthened by his then recent election a3 Senator from Ohio, kept him in the very high est rank among 'those entitled to be called statesmen. It was not mere chance that brought him this high hon or. "We must, says Mr. Emerson "reckon success a constitutional trait, If Eric is in robust health and has slep wen and is at the top or his condition and thirty years old at his departure irom Greenland, he will steer west and his ships will reach New Foundland But take Eric out and put in a stronger and bolder man and the ships will sai six hundred, one thousand, fifteen hun dred miles farther and reach Labrador and New England. There is no chance in results." As a candidate, Garfield steadily grew in popular favor. He was met with storm of detraction at the very hour of increasing volume and momentum un ma uouiiuauou, unu it continued witn til the close of his victorious camDaicrn: Nor might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; backwouodlng calumny The wnltest virtue strikes. What king s strong Can tie the gall up in the slenderous tongue. Under it all he was calm and strong, and confident; never lost his self-possession, did no unwise act, spoke no hasty, or ill-considered word. Indeed nothing in his whole life is more ' re markable or more creditable than his bearing through those five full months of vituperation a prolonged agony of trial to a sensitive maD, a constant and cruel draft upon the powers of moral endurance. The great mass of these unjust imputations passed unnoticed, and with the general debris of the cam paign fell into oblivion. But in a . few instances the iron entered bis soul and he died with the injury unforgotten if not unforgiven. One aspect of Garfield's candidacy was unprecedented. JNever before, in the history of partisan contests in this country, had a successful Presidential candidate spoken freely on passing events and current issues. To attempt anything of the kind seemed novel, rash, and even desperate. The older class of voters recalled the unfortunate Alabama letter, in which Mr. Clay was supposed to have signed his political death warrant. They remembered also the - hot-tempered effusion by which General Scott lost a large share of his popularity before his nomination, and the unfortunate speeches which rapidly consumed the remainder. The younger voters had seen Mr. Greeley in a series of vigorous and original addresses, pre paring the pathway f or-his own defeat. Unmindful of these warnings, unheed ing the advice of friends, Garfield spoke to large crowds as he journeyed to and from New York in August, to a great multitude in that city, to delegations and deputations of every kind that call ed at Mentor during the summer and autumn. With innumerable critics, watchful and eager to catch a phrase tnat might be turned into odium or ridicule, or a sentence that might be distorted to his own or his party's in jury, Garfield did not trip or halt in any one of his seventy speeches. This seems all the more remarkable when it is remembered that he did not write what he said, and yet spoke with such logical consecutiveness of thought and such admirable precision of phrase as to defy the accident of misreport and the malignity of misrepresentation. In the beginning of his Presidential life Garfield's experience did not yield him pleasure or satisfaction. The du ties that engross so large a portion of the President's time were distasteful to him, and were unfavorably contrasted with his legislative work. "I have been dealing all these years with ideas," he impatiently exclaimed one day, "and here I am dealing only with persons. I have been heretofore treating of the fundamental principles of government, here I am considering whether A or B shall be appointed to this or that office." He was earnestly seeking some practi cal way of correcting the evils arising from the distribution of overgrown and unwieldly patronage evils always ap preciated and often discussed by" him, but whose magnitude had been more deeply impressed upen his mind since his accession to the Presidency. Had he lived, a comprehensive improvement in the mode of appointment and in the tenure of office would have been pro posed by him, and with the aid of Con gress no doubt perfected. But. while many ot the executive duties were not grateful to him, he was assiduous and conscientious in their discharge. From the very outset he ex hibited administrative ability of a very hieh order. He grasped the helm of office with the hand of a master. In this respect indeed he constantly sur prised many who were most intimately associated with him in the government, and especially those" who had feared that he might be lacking in the execu tive faculty. His disposition of busi ness was orderly and rapid. His pow er of analysis, and his skill in classifica tion, enabled him to dispatch a vast mass of detail with singular prompt ness and ease. His cabinet meetings were admirably conducted. His clear presentation of official subiecta. his well considered suggestion of topics on which discussion was invited, his quick decision whenall had been heard, com bined to show a thoroughness of men tal training as rare as his natural abili ty and his facile adaptation to a new and enlarged field ot labor. With perfect comprehension of all the inheritances of the war, with a cool calculation of the obstacles in his way. impelled always by a generous en thusiasm, Garfield conceived that much might be done by his administrtaiorrto- wards restoring harmony between the different sectiens of, the Union. He was anions to go South and speak to the people. As early as April he had inef fectually endeavored to arrange for a trip to Nashville, whither he had been cordialy invito d,and he was again dis appointed a few weeks later to find he could not go to South Carolina to at tend the centennial celebration of the battle of Cowpens. But for the au tumn he definitely counted on being present at three memorable assemblies in the South, the celebration at York town, the opening of the cotton exposi tion at Atlanta, and the meeting of the Army of the Cumberland at Chattanoo ga- ... He was already turning over in his mind his address for each occasion, and these taken together, he said to a friend, gave him the exact scope and verge which he needed. At 1 urktown he would have before him the associations of a hundred years that bound the South and North together in the sacred memory of a common danger and com mon victory. At Atlanta he would pre sent the material interests and the in dustrial development which appealed to the thrift and independence of every household, and should unite the two sections by the instinct of self-interest and self-defense. At Chattanooga he would revive memories of the war on ly to show that after all its disaster and all its suffering, the country was strong er and greater, theUnion rendered indis soluble, and the future, through the ag ony and blood ot one generation, made brighter and-better tor all. Garheld s ambition tor the success of his administration was high. With strong caution and conservatism in his nature, he was in no danger of attemp ting rash experiments or of resorting to the empiricism of statesmanship. But he believed that renewed and closer at tention should be given to questions affecting the material interests and commercial prospects offifty millions of people. He believed tb at our continental rela tions, extensive and undeveloped as they are, involved responsibility, and could be cultivated into profitable friendship or be abandoned to harmful indifference or lasting enmity. He be lieved with equal confidence that an essential forerunner of a new era of national progress must be a feeling of contentment! in every section of the Union, and a generous belief that the benefits and burdens of government would be common to all. Himself a conspicuous illustration of what ambition and ability may do un der Republican institutions, he loved his country with a passion of patriotic devotion, and every waking thought was given to her advancement. He was ah American in all his aspirations, and he looked to the destiny and influence of the United States with the philo sophic composure of Jefferson and the democratic confidence of John Adams. The political events which disturbed the President's serenity for many weeks before that fateful day in July, form an important chapter in his career, and, in his own judgment, involved questions of principle and or right which are vitally essential to the constitutional administration of the Federal Govern ment. It would be out of place here and now to speak the language of con troversy; but the events referred to, however they may continue to be a source of contention with others, have become, so far as Garfield is concerned, as much a matter of history as his hero ism at Chickamauga or his illustrious service in the House. Detail is not needful, and personal antagonism shall not be rekindled by any word uttered to-day. The motives of those opposing him are not to be here, adversely inter preted nor their course harshly charac terized. But of the dead President this is to be said, and said because his own speech is forever silenced and he can be no more heard except through the fidelity and the love of surviving friends: From the beginning to the end of the controversy he so much de plored, the President was never for one moment actuated by any motive of gain to himself or of loss to others. Least of all men did he harbor revenge, rarely did he even show resentment, and malice was not in his nature. He was congenially employed only in the ex change of good offices and the doinz of kindly deeds. B There was not an hour, from the be ginning of the trouble till the fatal shot entered his body, when the President would not gladly, for the sake of re storing harmony, have retraced any steD he had taken if such retracing had merely involved consequences personal to himself. The pride of consistency, or any supposod sense of humiliation that might result from surrendering his position, had not a feather's weight with him. No man was ever less sub ject to such influences from within or from without. But after most anxious n Al l hp raturn anH tha nnAiAof a - all the circumstances, he solemnly be- lieved that the true prerogatives of the jKiXecutive were involved in the issue which had been raised, and that he would be unfaithful to his supreme ob ligation if he failed to maintain, in all their vigor, the constitutional rights and dignities of his great office. He be lieved this in all the convictions of conscience when in sound and vigorous health, and he believed it in his suffering and prostration in the last conscious thought which his wear ied mind bestowed on the transitory struggles of life. More than this need not be said. Less than this could not be said. Jus tice to the dead, the highest obligation that devolves upon the living, demands the declaration that in all the bearings of the subject, actual or possible, the President was content in his mind, jus tified in his conscience, immovable in his conclusions. Th,e religious element in Garfield's character was deep and earnest. In his early youth he espoused the faith of the Disciples, a sect of that great Baptist Communion, which in different ecclesi astical establishments is so numerous and so influential throughout all parts of the United States. But the broaden ing tendency of his mind and hifctctive spirit of inquiry were early apparent and carried him beyond the dogmas of sect and the restraints of association In selecting a college in which to con tinue his education he rejected Betha ny, though presided over by Alexander Campbell, the greatest preacher of his church. His reasons were characteris tic ; first, that Bethany leaned too heav ily toward slavery ; and, second, that being himself a Disciple and the son of Disciple parents, he had little acquain tance with people of other beliefs and he thought it would make him more liberal, quotiDg his own words, both in his religious and general views, to go into a new circle and be under new in fluences. The liberal tendency which he antic ipated as the result of wider culture was fully realized. He was emancipat ed from mere sectarian belief, aad with eager interest pushed his investigations in the direction of modern progressive thought. He followed with quickening step in the paths of exploration and speculation so fearlessly trodden by Darwin, by Huxley, by Tyndall, and by other living scientists of the radical and advanced type. His own church, binding its disciples by no formulated creed, but accepting the Old and New Testaments as the word of God with unbiased liberty of private interpreta tion, favored, if it did not stimulate, the spirit of investigation. Its members profess with sincerity, and profess only, to be of one mind and one faith with those who immediately followed the Master, and who were first called Christians at Antioch. But however high Garfield reasoned of "fixed fate, free will, foreknbwledge absolute, he was never separated from the Church of the Disciples in his af fections and in his associations. For him it held the ark of the covenant. To him it was the gate of heaven. The world of religious belief is full of sole cisms and contradictions. A philo sophic observer declares that men by the thousand will die in defense of a creed whose doctrines they do not com prehend and whose tenets they habitu ally violate. It is equally true that men by the thousand will cling to church or ganizations with instinctive and undy ing fidelity when their belief in maturer vears is radically different from that which inspired them as neophytes. But after this range of speculation Hud this latitude of doubt, Garfield came back always with freshness and delight to the simpler instincts of relisr ious faith, which, earliest implanted longest survive. iot many weeks i fore his assassination, walking on thf banks of the Potonrac with a mend and conversing on those topics of per sonal religion, concerning which noble natures have an unconquerable reserve, he said that he found the Lord's Prayer ; nd the simple petitions learned in in l tncy infinitely restful to him, not merely in their stated repetition, but in their casual and frequent recall as he wentabout the daily duties" of life. Certain texts of Scriptures had a very strong hold on his memory and his heart. He heard, while in Edinburgh some years ago, an eminent Scotch preacher who prefaced his sermon with reading the eighth chapter or the Lpis tie to the Romans, which book had been the subject of careful study with Garfield during all his religious life. He was greatly impressed by the elocution of the preacher and declared that it had imparted a new and deeper mean ing to the majestic utterances of Saint Paul. He referred often in after years to that memorable service, and dwelt with exaltation of feeling upon the ra diant promise and the assured hope with which the greaff apostle of the Gentiles was "persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. The crowning characteristic of Gen eral Garfield's religious opinions, as, in deed, of all his opinions, was his libe ralitv. In all things he had charity Tolerance was of his nature. He re spected in others the qualities which he possessed himself sincerity of con viction and tranKness or expression With him the inquiry was not so much what a man believes, but does he be lieve it? The lines of his friendship and his confidence encircled men of ev-. ery creed, and men of no creed, and to the end of his life, on his ever-length enine list of friends, were to be found the names of a pious Catholic priest and of an honest-minded and generous- hearted free-thinker. On the morning of Saturday, July second, the President was a contented and happy man not in an ordinary de cree, but joyfully, almost boyishly nap' py. On his way to the railroad station to which he drove slowly, in conscious enjoyment of . the beautiful morning, with an unwonted sense of leisure and a keen anticipation of pleasure, his talk was all in the grateful and gratulatory vein. He felt that after four months of trial his administration was strong in its grasp of affairs, strong in popular favor and destined to grow stronger; that crave difficulties confronting him at his inauguration had been safely passed; that trouble lay behind him and not before him ; that he was soon to meet the wife whom he loved, now recovering from an illness which had but lately disquieted and at tynes al most unnerved him ; that he was going to his Alma Mater tq renew the most cherished associations of his young manhood, and to exchange greetings with those whose deeriening interest had followed every step of his upward progress from the day he entered upon his college course until he had attained the loftiest elevation in the gift of his countrymen. Surely if happiness can ever come from the honors or triumphs of' this world, on that quiet July morning Jas. A. Garfield may well have been a happy man. No foreboding of evil haunted him ; no slightest premonition of dan ger clouded his sky. His terrible fate was upon him in an instant. One mo ment he stood erect, stroDg, confident in the years stretching peacefully out be fore him. .The next he lay wounded, bleeding, helpless, doomed to weary weeks of torture, to silence, and the grave.. Great in life, ha great in death. For no cause, in the very frenzy of wantonness and wicked- Ladies, Gentlemen, Misses, Boys and C Idren ;. V " CANNOT SAIL TO BS SUITKP IN If IT -f " STOCK FOR THE YY JS guarantee tnat every pair of SHOK3 we sen money. Our stock has been carefully seieetea witn goods, of the very best Quality and all grades, from suit you and at the lowest possible prices, you cannot sepl3 ; nessi by the red hand of murder, he was thrust from the full tide of this world's interest, from its hopes, its aspirations, its victories, into the visible presence of death and he did not quail. Not alone for the one short moment in which, stunnedand dazed, he could give up life, hardly aware of its relinquishment, but through days of' deadly languor, through weeks of agony, that was not less agonv because silently borne, with clear sight and calm courage, he looked in nis open grave, vv nat oiigut ana ruin met nis anguished eyes, wnose lips may tell what brilliant, broken plans, what baflied, high ambitions, what sundering of strong.warm, manhood's friendships, what bitter rending ot sweet house hold ties! Behind him a proud, expec tant nation, a great host of sustaining friends, a cherished and happy mother, wearing the lull, rich honors or her early toil and tears ; the wife of his youth, whose whole life lay in his; the little boys not yet emerged from child hood s day of Irolic ; the fair, young daughter; the-sturdy sons just spring ing into closest companionship, claim ing every day and everyday rewarding 1 1 ' . . f- V-. r 'n 1 j' T r f 1 VI 111 f il CI . I in V. i r. a, irtLiici a iuyu a.uu taic, auu. iu 1119 heart the eager, rejoicing power to meet all demand. Before him, desolation and great darkness! And his soul was not shaken. . His countrymen were thrilled with instant, profound, and universal sympathy. Masterful in his mortal weakness, ne became tne center or a nation's love, enshrined in the prayers of a world. But all the love and all the sympathy could not share with him his sufiering. lie trod the wine-press alone. With unialtenng rront he raced death. With unfailing tenderness he took leave of life. Above the demoniac hiss of the assassin's bulet he heard the voice of Gjod. With simple resignation he bow ed, to the Divine decree. as tne end drew near, nis eanv crav ing fox the sea returned. The stately mansion oi power naa Deen 10 mm tne wearisome hospital of pain, and he begged to be taken from its prison - r tf V .1 V 1 11 . walls, from its oppressive, suning air, from its homelesaness and its hopeless ness. Gently, silently, the love of .a great people" bore the pale sufferer to the longed-tor healing or the sea, to live or to die, as God should will, with in sight of its heaving billows, withm sound of its manifold voices. With wan, fevered face tenderly lifted to the cooling breeze, he looked out wistfully upon the ocean s changing wonders ; on its far sails, whitening in the morning light; on its restless waves, rolling shoreward to break and die beneath the noonday sun ; on the red clouds of even ing, arching low to the horizon; on the serene and shining pathway ot tne Stars. Let us think that his dying eyes read a mystic meaning which only tne rapt and parting soul may know. Let us believe that in the silence of the re ceding world he heard the great waves breaking on a further snore, and relt already upon his . wasted brow the breath of the eternal morning. The eulogy was concluded at 1 :.J p. m., havme taKen just an hour and a tlf in its delivery. As Blaine gave ut- t ranee to the last solemn words the 'ectators broke into a storm ot ap !.uise, which was not hushed for some moments. The address was listened to :th an intense interest and the solemn lience was unbroken by any sound ex- eptbvasisrh ot relief, such as arises rom a lame audience when strong ten si on is removed irom their mmr.s, when the orator passed from his allu sion to the differences existing in the Republican party last spring. Bene diction was then offered by Rev. Dr. Bullock. Chaplain of the Senate.,. The Marine band played the GarOeld Dead March as the invited guests hied out or the chamber inhe same order in which they had entered it. The Senate was the last to leave, and then tne House was called to order bv th: Speaker. McKinlev. of Ohio, off red a resolu tion of thanks to 131 ine for his magni- licient addresH, which was unanimously adopted The House then adjourned. Senate. 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