The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1881-10-12

months by that heroic bed. They have
sunk partyism in prayer for the loved Ire fs
4 In the language of Frank Pixley: We
Emourned the murdered Lincoln with anger
in our hearts, but over the grave OF our
dead President all these mad passions are
4 hushed, all angry resentments are buried
all unkind recollections are forgotten. In
South and West, in North and East, In all
Glands where civilization dwels, IN all
kparties, and in all divisions OF parties,
There is only deep sorrow and profound
kregret over the untimely death OF ouI
murdered President. Fifty millions Of
united hearts beat in mournful refrain
around his dead body. The flags draPeo
lin black, hanging at half mast, are the
Eemblems of q common sorrow the SIN
Ecere and heartfelt grief of united peo
pie. We step in measured tread to the
ksad music of the funeral dirge, and II
FINDS no echo in the Nations heart thar
Ethat of the profoundest grief.
S What JAMES A. GARFIELD could not do
s perhaps, while living, he has done ROUNDED
DUNG. deadi He has brought the country
North and South have seen, as
Eneyer before, the necessity of abating the
Hfury of faction, the great sin OF sectional
Estrife. They have clasped hands over that
Hheroic bed. A blind, disabled Confederate
Hsoldier voiced the common feeling OF the
kSouth when he sent his touching telegram
Epraying for the life of sour President to be
Hspared to our Nation" That soldier saw
land the South, at last, also sees, that his
.former foe was not his enemy; that there
lis no longer a North and q South, but a
5common country, a Nation, of which we
Z are all proud to be called citizens.
y 5. Let me turn back the pages of our Ma
etion's history little that may make you
Iasee my last thought more clearly:
Il 1t is April, 1865. The war-clouds which,
Ffor four long years have overhung our
5land, dropping their bloody rain, are be-
8ginning to break, and to be "rolled up like u
fscroll. . when suddenly, thunderbolt fell
Z out of that departing stor1n-cioud; 1t
estruck down our choicest one: ABRAHAM
s LINCOLN fell, stricken down by the hand of
an assassin. How the wires quivered as
2they carried over the shuddering land the
/ fatal news How mems faces paled, and
! all loyal hearts were wrung with agony
In New York city, as the news ran from
Eheart to heart, great crowd surged into
7 Wall street, with cleaning eyes, COM
pressed lips, set teeth, and blanched faces /;
with vengeance in every heart, with
dread, and terror and fearful foreboding
as they thought of the future-the crowd
became mob Suddenly strong man
pushed his way through that surging, hv-
Ting sea, climbed some steps, and stood be
4 fore them. Something in the face and
manner of JAMES A. GARFIELD as he stood
! there Quoted that mob though no one
knew who he was; a death-lIke silence
1 fell upon them; all eyes were turned to-
ward that strong face, as if pleading for
4 help And not in vain. One single SEN
tence from his ringing voice filled each
soul with courage and hope. Drawing
himself up, he said: "GoD REIGNs and
ths Government at Washington still Tires ~ So
IL say to you to-day: "God reigns Fl
thanks be to His name, and all Is well
! The President is DEAD but the NATION
LIVES, never SO strong as now. The Re-
public is peace. The Government is law.
! The Union is secure and rebaptized into
nationality and human rights. The peo-i
I pie are brothers. The one flag floats from.
sDelow the Gulf to either Portland" Our
institutions are imperishable. Sure as
! the professions of the seasons, strong
4 as the purposes of Deity, country, liberty,
progress and civilization go on. God rules.
j" HIS purposes of love Tor those made in
! His image will not be worked out world.
] wide, till the Angel who shall stand with
! one foot on sea and one foot on land, shall
swear by Him that sitteth or the throne
and who liveth forever, with the voice of
sOmnipotence and the warrant of con-
scluded purpose, that Time shall be no
longer"
40, We of little faith !" Fear not. Gods
eplans never fail.
JAMES A. GARFIELD is dead! We cannot
yet measure our loss He was grander
man than the world thought him to be.
But the succession OF good men is never
wholly broken. The gaps which are made
Sby Death are filed. The ranks close up
] and the world moves on. Yet, in a hun
bred years there has been but one WASH
1NeroN, one LINCOLN and one GARFIELD.
/ We know not if in hundred years to
come there will be other men like them.
God grant that there may be, and that led
I and governed by such men, the Nation we
3love may be Nation whose God is the
Lord, and which shall never perish from
1.-THE face of the earth"