The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-16
GARFIELD'S POWER.
A Thrilling Incident in New York


From the Cincinnati Gazette
The following Renaissance of Gen
eral Garfield's power during the great
est crisis the country ever passed
through, has been furnished us by dis
tinguished gentleman who was present,
and shows the intellectual and moral
power of the Republican nominee for
the presidency over a surging and mad
dened crowd:
saw General Garfield. 1t was the morn
ing after President Lincoln's assassina-
ton. The country was excited to its
utmost tension, and New York City
seemed ready for the scenes of the
French revolution. The intelligence of
LincOln's murder had been flashed by
the wires over the whole land The
newspaper headlines of the transaction
were set up in the largest type, and the
high crime was on every ones tongue
Fear took possession of mems minds as
to the fate ofthe government, for in few
hours the news came on that Stewards
throat was cut and that attempts had
been made upon the lives of others of
the government officers. Posters were
stuck up everywhere, in great black let.
tiers, calling upon the loyal citizens of
New York, brooklyn, Jersey City and
neighboring places, to meet around the
Wall Street Exchange and give ex-
preston to their sentiments. II was a
dark and terrible hour. What might
| come next no one could tell, and men
spoke with bated breath. The wrath of
the workingmen was simply uncon-
| trollable, and revOlvers and knives were
in the hands of thousands of Lincala's
| friends. ready at the first opportunity to
take the law into their own hands and
avenge the death of the martyred presI-
dent upon any and all who dared to ut
ter word against him"
ELEVEN O'Clock a. M, was the hour
| sci. for the rendezvous. Fifty thousand
| people crowded around the exchange
| building, examining and tanning the
streets, and wedged in tight as
m6n could stand together. With q few
| TO whom special favor was extended,
went over from Brooklyn, at 8 a, m, and
even then, with the utmost difficulty,
found way to the reception room for the
| speakers in the front of the exchange
building, and looking out upon the high
and massive balcony, whose front was
protected by heavy iron railing. We
sat in solemnity and silence, wanting for
General Butler, who, it was announced,
had started from Washington and was
either already In the city, or expected
every moment. Nearly i hundred gen
erals, Judges, statesmen, lawyers, editors,
clergymen, and others, Were in the room
waiting Buffers arrival. We stepped
out to the balcony to watch the fearful,
| ~ solemn and swaying mass Of people
Not hurrah was heard, but for the
most part dead silence, or q deep, omin-
Gus muttering ran like rising wave up
the street toward Broadway, and again
down toward the river on the right
At length the batons of the police were
seen swinging in the air, far up un the
left, parting the crowd aud pressing it
back to make way for At carriage that
moved slowly and with difficult joys,
through the compact multitude. Sud.
denly the silence was broken and the
cry of Butler! Butler! Butleri" ran q
out with tremendous and thrilling effect,
and was taken up by the people. But
not a hurrah! Not once! 1t was the
cry of a great people, asking to know
how their president died The blood
/, bounded in our veins. and the tears ran
like streams down our faces. How it
was done forget, but Butler was pulled
through, and pulled up, and entered the
room, where We had Just walked hack to
meet him. A broad Grape, a yard long,
hung from h;S left arm-terrible contrast
with the countless flags that We're waving
thelnations victory to the breeze. We first
realized then the truth of the sad news
: that Lincoln was dead. When Butler
entered the room we shook hands Some
, spoke, some couldn't. All were in tears
The only words Butler had for us all al
the first break of the silence was; Gentle
men, he died in the fulness of his fame q
and as he spoke it his lips quivered, and
| the tears ran fast down his cheeks.
, ''Then, after a few moments, came the
speaking. And you can imagine the eff
feet, as the Grape fiuttered in the wind
= while his arm was uplifted. Dickinson
? of New York state, was fairly wild The
! old man leaped over the iron railing Of
the balcony, and stood on the very edge
oVerhanging the crowd, gesticulaiing In
the most vehement manner, and mex
thing to bidding the crowd burn up the
! rebel seed, root and branch while by
: stander held on to his coat.tails to keeI
/. him from falling oyer. BY this time thu
; wave of popular indignation had swellet
> to its crest. Two men lay bleeding or
; one of the side streets, the one dead, the
E other next to dying; one on the pave
ment, the other in the gutter They haC
q said a moment before that 'LincolI
q ought to have been shot long agor
y They were not allowed to say it again
Soon two long pieces of scantling stooC
out above the heads of the crowd, cross
ed at the top like the letter Y, and
Topped halter pendant from the junction
a dozen men following its slow motion
: through the masses, while vengeance! =
}. was the cry.
r "On the right, suddenly, the shou
!. rose. The WOrldr The Worldr 'Th,
Worldr The office of the World
. World! Worldr and movement of pei
haps 5000 or 10000 turning their face
in the direction of that building began
to be executed. 1t was a critical mo
J. ment. What might come no one coulC
g tell, did that crowd get in front OF tina
office. Police and military would hav
Il availed little or been too late. A Telegram
:, had just been read from Washington
o Seward is dying Just then at tina
iuncture, a man stepped forward with
e small flag in his hand, and beckoned t.
a the crowd. Another telegram from
n Washington And then, in the awfu
/. stiffness of the crisis, taking advantag
of the hesitation of the crowd, who's
steps had been arrested a moment,
, right arm was lifted skyward, and
a voice clear and steady, loud and distinct
!, spoke out: Fellow citizens! Cloud
" and darkness are round about hint Hi
pavilion is dark waters and thick cloud
r of the skiesl Justice and judgment ar
o the establishment of his thronel Nero,
e and truth shall go before his facet Fel
y low citizens! God reigns, and the GOV
eminent at Washington still livesp
r THE effect was tremendous. TIL
n crowd stood riveted to the ground il
) awe, gazing at the motionless orator, an
IT thinking of God and the security Q
the government IN that hour. AS tn
70 boiling waves subsidies and settles to tn
a sea when some strong wind beats
70 down, so the tumult of the people san
" and became still. All took 1t as a d
> vine omen. 1t was a triumph of ED
quence, inspired by the moment, such a
le falls to but one mans lot, and that bU
u once in a century. The genius of Wei
e ster, Choate, Everett, Seward, neve
81 reached it. Demosthenes never equalle
i it. What might have happened ha
the surging and maddened mo
1r been but loose, none can tel
n, The man for the crisis was @
II the spot, more potent than Napoleon
NJ guns at Paris. | inquired what was h
n name The answer came in a 10
whisper, 1t is Garfield, of OhioP"
Of HOUSE PLANTS.
&c The question so often raised by OF