The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-07-15
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CLEVELAND, TENN.
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est traits of American character
II is a positive pleasure in thes,
otherwise uneventful times L
dwell upon them. The uniyersa
feeling oil sympathy aroused by
the event, so warm, so sincere
so prolonged, speaks volumes 70.
the great heart Of the country. i
will he many Il day before tn;
sp~ectacles we have witnessed ar,
forgotten. Those anxious throng,
constantly hanging about th,
bulletins and visiting the tele
graph aud newspaper Offices day
aud night to hear each report as il
comes in presents a study for any
observer, The joy is always ex'
~pressed'a as each encouraging mes.
sege, and which knows no party
creed or line, which has for time
being buried all party distinc.
tons and all sectional distinc
tons, and which has united all
americans ON a common platform
of hope, is Il beautiful and mem
orable Illustration of the Sensibil-
tiles OF our whole people. After
the wonderful demonstration
which has been made i'm the
Southern States, it will be a long
while before purely sectional ran
ear again disfigures the politics of
Z this united land. The South has
placed itself by a great spontane-
Gus movement right on the rec
ord, and who doubts the love OF
aer people for the Union and its
symbols and organized forms of
expression after what has recent
ly taken place in that region, is a
dull malignant, unworthy of the
? respect of any decent man. This
is a great gain to the country. The
sick bed Of James A. Garfield has
been Il sacred spot where all the
nation has come together. From
Maine and from Louisiana, from
Massachusetts, and from Texas,
from California and from Florida,
the token of a people, one in
heart, have clustered about that
couch, and shed light amidst the
gloom of such a calamity. 1t took
NO foreign war to bring us all to-
, gether, The bullet which prostra-
ted the President in the Balti-
more and Potomac depot did that
work. Down there in Alabama
and Georgia, as in Michigan and
and New Hampshire, the pulse
beats quick With the accounts of
those tender wemen, the wives of
She Cabinet officers, and the he
rOie little woman Who came by
lightning cxpressto her husbands
aid, nursing the stricken man
through all the watches Of night
and day with accomplishing for
tituae and an assiduity hat knew
no fatigue. 1t is q picture franz
ed i'm the minds of all. Not a
household but moves over it
Who can now doubt the popular
love OF the man who has been so
grievously injured, and the full
appreciation of his genial, gener-
oNs and noble disposition and
eharaetert 1t is no Gear who lies
vOnder with court officials to spec |
utate about the results Of his de
mise 1t is a great sOUled Amer
lean citizen who i'm the midst of
his OWN dire distress sees to his
wife's condition and commands
from a bed Of agony that she have
Meedful rest. This is the sort of
nan who ende&rs himself to the
people and they shower their az
lection upon him. Let it not be
forgotten, either, that whilst this
wonderful and suggestive specta
Gle Is in progress, the assassin
who has plunged a nation into
such ~c0lamotion is not igoBed in
the day time, h&S not been put
to the rack and does not even
SEEM to be 0lenaced by mob vio-
Eence. His measure has been Ia
ken. Efe is dismissed from
Thought Uutil the result of the
tragedy rs known. Here then we
have grouped together the out
pouring of a whole peoples afEec-
tSon, the lovely scenes of aevo-
rfNN I'm the White House. the
calMness and good sense Of the
country in reg@td to the precise
motive OF the attack on the Presi-
dent, and Its inspiring causes and
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