The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-07-09

attempt to murder the President is
hnt the legitimate outcome of events
that have occupied a great portion of
the public attention since the 4th of
March last.
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
tPresident Garfield, with all his |
faults and his shortcomings, is below
cd by the American people. He has
been tried in the fire of fierce and |
hitter presidential campaign and out
from it he has come with the respect
Of his enemies and the affection of
his friends. As we contemplate all
fine possibilities that would follow
his removal. there is occasion for
deep thankfulness for the report that
his wounds are not believed to be
fatal. We do not care at this time to
speculate upon the feelings which
we're excited in Albany by this occur
renee. 1t may be conceived that
some of those who move amid the
slime of that sink ofcorruption heard
it with regret, while others perhaps
regarded it with anything but deep
sorrow. We may, however. venture
TO hope that there will be found
among the whole body of men at
that place enough of sense of deem
cy to enable them to perceive that
public sentiment will not kindly ac-
ctpt, after this assault, a continuance
d struggle which is nothing more
!gOr less than battle for and against
2he President"
The Philadelphia Times says: eff
one so beloved and respected as James
A. Garfield can be murdered under
the very shadow ofthe Capitol, when
peace and plenty abound throughout
the land, when the passions of sec
tional strife have been stilled, when
the waves of party conflict have been
claimed, and when only the murmur
of the spokesman could be heard in
discord with the general tranquility,
then indeed is the gloom that encir-
cled the nation impenetrable."
The Philadelphia Press says !:
"Tlis crime, which plunges whole
nation into sorrow, is the deed of one
maddened fanatic, crazed, it may he
by political excitement, and wrought
into a morbid state by imaginary
wrongs, but representing nothing but
his own insanity"
Washington Critic: 1.-THE tragedy
appears to be the work of maniac.
The theory of political conspiracy is,
according to all present advices, too
absurd to be seriously considered.
Wilmington (Del.) EUery EUening
and Commercial "The attempted
murder of our President is enough,
but back of it lies a new source for
passionate regret in the fact that if
Garfield dies Chester A. Arthur will
be President of the United States"
The Boston Traveller says: "It is
unutterably shameful and ineXpreS-
sibly sad. Every friend of reaction.
every enemy ofliberty, every champ.
ion of strong, absolute government,
will take encouragement from this
Ubiquitous deed. 1t is a plea for the
rule of the RO.nanoffS and the Bon
apartes presented at the bar of history
from the land of George Washington.
Every citizen of the republic will
feel to-day the hot blush of shame
on his face and deep sense of irrep-
arabic wrong at his heart.
The New York World says: "The
whole American people, without dis
tinction of parties, will breathe more
freely this morning to know that
their elected Chief Magistrate, who
was Saturday stricken down by the
hand of an assassin, still lives, and
that some reasonable hope of his re-
c0very will still be entertained. But
if the worst is already over at Wash
ington, let us not underestimate in
our thankfulness the weight of the
blow that was Saturday struck at the
perman Ance of free institutions, and
therefore at the honor, the glory and
the greatness of the United States.
For that blow was struck not by the
wretched assassin who now awaits
the just punishment of his crime,
but by the people of the United States
themselves. Whom but themselves
can they righteousIy hold account
able, if the person of the American
Executive has ceased to be more
sacred in the eyes of vulgar and
brutal seeker after place and pay
than is the executive Office itself in
the eyes of the myriads of respect
able and prosperous citizens who
have abandoned politics to the ma
chine.'"
The New York Sun says: mo
event since the assassination OF Abra-
ham Lincoln has created such "A shock.
The sensation of profound sorrow Is
universal. The American people
have but one heart to day, ana 1t IS
overwhelmed with grief at the sud
den, unexpected and tragic striking
down of their Chief Executive Mag
iStrate.
The New York Times says: "The
Presidents life was assailed by a
wretch who represents as distinctly
the evil in our system as President
Garfield represented the good. For
though the murderer was obviously
of disorded mind, it is impossible to
ignore the causes which led imme-
diately to this act-which directed
his ill-regulateG will to its final aim.
He was disappointed office.seeker.
and he linked the bitterness of his
present disappointment with a pas
sionate animOsity of faction, in
famed and intensified by the assaults
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