The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-01

ABOUT lSUU ncu WcTc Ill llIlt, 90,
pnpls OF the public schools, with teachers
about 1000 in all, wearing badges of mourn
ing, and with appropriate banner, marched
around and inlo the square to the monument
The stand was occupied by the Ottawa Mu
steal Association and distinguished guests o
the city and officers OF the courts The exer
cises were opened by a selection by Bach
band, followed by the address of Judge lie
land, as president of the day, rs follows:
Fello,o Citizens: 1t has been considered
eminently lit and proper that we assem-
BILE together to render our tribute of re-
spect to the memory of the late Presi-
dent of the United States, and that TO
this end there should be a solemn flu
neral procession, words of eulOgy and
coincidence spoken, and appropriate re-
ligious exercises. | do not propose TO
speak at length In eulogy Of the de-
ceased, nor to utter many words OF con-
dOlence for the bereaved family. All
this will be more appropriately and bet
ter done by another. James A. Gar
field, like Abraham Lincoln, was pecul-
iarly representative of republican in
stitutions. Both were elevated from the
ton in the republic, and both were men
whom the people admired for their Ca
pacity, respected for their prObity, and
loved for their philanthropy, and both
were justly entitled to this admiration,
respect, and love Of their fellow men.
How inscrutably strange 1t is that these
two men, of whose nature unkindness to
others seemed not to be an element, and
whom all should have striven to cherish
and protect, should have been so cruelty
murdered. We are unable to compre-
bend it. We submit with resignation to
the inevitable. OF the incidents in the
life Of the deceased, as a civilian and a
soldier, and of his public and private
life generally before he became our Pres
ident, of his manifest ability to have
sponsible duties of his trust il his life
had been spared, and of the honest and
sincere desire he had to do the best he
could to promote the welfare of the peO-
pie he loved 80 we'll, 80 plainly perceptl-
bic during the short time he remained
in office, l will merely say that in all the
trying situations in which he has been
placed he has been adequate to the Occa-
sion, that whenever he has been
tried in the balance he has not been
found wanting, and that during his life,
ana more particularly during the sad
der portion thereof near the end, he has
shown himself to have been q man
whose accomplishing heroism under in
tense suffering, whose kindness of heart
'for Others woes, unmindful Of his own"
and whose excellent traits of character
generally have gained for him the ad-
miration, respect and love of the people
of all the nations of the earth and that
the whole world now sincerely mourns
his loss. Speaking for others as well as
myself, am sure that may be permit
ted truthfully to say that as with alter
nate fear and hope we watched with
ever-increasing and all.absorblng solicit
tude the ebb and flow Of his tide Of life,
we became more and more attached to
the patient sufferer, and that when came
at last the sad and melancholy end we
mourned as for the death of a relative
and friend who was near and dear to us,
and refused to be comforted." The
conduct of his faithful, devoted and be-
loved wife has also been such, during the
short time she has been generally known,
aof6 endear her to the whole people, not
DIV ia her own, but in other lands. To
6ef aud to her children, and to the aged