The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-09-21

BY 1Aftn. and mith Alone. embrace.
Believing where we cannot prove.
Thine are these orbs OF light and shade;
Thor madest LIFE In man and brute:
Thou madsst death: and 10. thy foot
Is ON the skull which thou hast made
Thou wilt not leave Us in the dust
Thou madest man. he knows not why;
He thinks he was not made 10 die;
And thou hast made him: thou art just.
In 2fsmOriam
From the New York Herald.
All Americana, of whatever religious
faith, and Of whatever politics, demo.
Gratis who opposed, and republicans
who reluctantly supported, his election,
were shocked alike by the bloody deed
which laid him low, and have watched
curing these tedius weeks around the
bed Of the patient and accomplishing
sufferer. with admiration for his cheer
full, manly patience and with prayers
thai, he. might be restored to vigorandh his
Official status; aud, indeed, n whole
civilized world has watched and prayed
with them. But II was not to be.
From thu New York sss-
The death OF no public man In the
history OF the government save that Of
Lincoln, has been so generally regarded
ass personal bereavement. To say this
and to truthfully say 1t, Is a praise that
no one need TO care to have exceeded in
the hour Of his own dissolution. No
exhibition Of grief, no public manafes-
tation Of sorrow, can be too great ut the
loss Of such q man. His life, his SER
vices. his long and painful struggle for
life and his untimely and distressing
death, combine to make the event one
Of supreme and universal sorrow. Let
no unkind word mar 1t; let no thought
less expression jar upon the general sad
ness. but with tolling bells and mufied
drums, let all that Is mortal Of james
A. Garfield, be borne TO its last resting
place, amid the tears and prayers OF
millions. who, shocked and suffering,
gaze upon the plying spectacle.
From the Atlanta Chronicle aud cDnstifution.
With anguish We announce that the
worst fears have been confirmed, and
James A. Garfield, president Of the
United States, is dead. By the hand Of
q fanatic. of the most disreputable sur
roundings. whom it would bea stretch
of charity, to call a mailman. this great
and good president, this fond husband,
this. loving father, this noble gentleman,
has been slain. Strange that the bullets
Of brave foemen should have, in a fair
fight, spared him for such q fate. Sad,
indeed, that such q glorious being, so
useful, 30 powerful, SO manly. 80 excel
lent, should become the victim of SO
vile 4 reptile. We bow to the dispen-
atoms Of God, and question them not.
To Him we leave indications and ends
Of Justice The heart of the south
bleeds for the stricken mother and wife
and children of the president. Upon
his dead body We lay al immortelle, a
wreath OF truest sorrow and regret. In
nocent OF the murder Of Lincoln, the
south suffered for %another's crime. In-
nocent Of the ASSASSINATION Of Garfield,
the south, fearless Of the future, and
forgetful Of the past, stands beside the
rclics Of the president, and prays that
the storm sped spirit shall have the rest
Of the righteous and q sanctuary In the
eternal Heaven where. luIled to slumb-
er, grief forgets to mourn.
From the Chicago Tribune.
General Garfield died as Washington
died, mourned BY a nation Of freemen,
loved by his countrymen for all the
qualities that constitute a great man.
even among'tte great men of the earth.
He died as Lincoln died. the grief Of
his countrymen intensified by the hor-
Yible circumstances Of his murder. He
died as the pure and upright Christian
would prefer to die, with an unblemish-
ed record, wholly unmindful Of person
al pain and of the abrupt termination
Of the highest political destruction,
grieving only for the cherished wife
and children, whose love and affection.
made his home an earthly heaven.
Around his bedside the American peo-
pie have for weeks gathered in sympathy
and in prayer; and to-day, the same
people will mingle their tears with those
Of the venerable mother and wife and
children, as members Of common fam
fly, mourning q common loss, a nation
al calamity, . world wide bereavement.
During this long suspense, the voice Of
faction has been silent, and there has
been no variance Of opinion uttered.
Each man has held the stricken ruler as
= friend; the dying statesman and orator
Is o past Of his country's glory; and the
suffering scholar, son father and bus-
band, as Of his own kindred. Honored
during his most memorable life, by the
piaudits and free choice Of his country
msn, his pathway from childhood, as
student. teacher, soldier, statesman, or
stor and patriot, has been one succes-
sion Of honorable victories won by lis
brnycry and by his purity Of life. But
more honorable. even, than his illustri-
ous life, has been the great victory won
upon the death bed, the victory Of the
Christian father and husband over tor
turing pain. paralized ambition, worldly
boncfs and the heart rendiDg agony Of
domestic lore and devotion. BE was
conspicuous a. the most acceptable Of