New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-31

years that IL was my privilege TO share with him In tho
public service for four OF which sat amoct by his side
Everybody who had thought brOugn. Il 10 him for
hospable welcome. Did science or scholarship need
anything OF the Government, Garfield the man to
whom they While charged with the duty Of super
ylsing the details OF present legislation he was always
foresceng and preparing for the future. In the closing
years OF the war, while chairman of the Committee on
Military AiTs he was studying finance. Later he nad
prepared himself to deal with the defects in the Civil
Service. l do not think the legislation Of the next
twenty years VIII more than ach the ground which he
had already occupied I'm his advanced thought.
General Garfield gave evidence OF vast powers or
oraoTy some very memorable occasions But he made
almost them as means OF persuading the peo
pie to conclusions when great public interests were at
stake Sincerity directnes full and perfect understand
apt illustration marked all his discourse. But few
great occasions, such As that in New-York when the
people moved almost to frenzy by the assassination
Of Lincoln the which moved the great human
ocean at the convention at Chicago he showed that he
could touch with masters hand the chords OF that
mighty instrument
To height Of uoDlest temper heroes old,
Aiming to battle, and instead OF rage
deliberate yglOr Dreathe,l, firm aud unmoyod
with dread OF d ath 20 flight or foul retreat
Nor wanting power 10 mitigate and 'suage
Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain
Frommortal or immortal minds"
When General Garfield took the oath Of Office Presl
dent, be seemed 10 those who knew him best though in
his eth year, still in the prime of splendid and Wig
orous youth. He was still growing. We hoped Cor him
eight years OF brilliant administrations and then in
form or place OF service an Old age IKE that OF Adams
whom, variety OF equipment alone 81 Presidents
he rescnbed What was best and pures and loftost in
thGtsprtOn of America seemed at last to nave ald its
oar country entered its Of peace and
prosperity, uobler bory, better friendship purer
justice, more lasting brot' crhood
Bat he called TO suOlimcr destiny. lie had as
cendcd along and the heights of service OF success Of
ranks Tor gallant aud mcrOTOus conduct on each field,
until by their sufugcs he stood foremost
But in tie days OF his sickness and
death he became the perpetual witness and example OF
halle the decds oi the field OF battle the house
hold virtues and simple family affections which all men
r. IA
lessons learned M motGers ices The h6nors paid to
Garfield the protest OF better age and better gem
Grafton against the vulgar herosnl- of the past Go
through thcr mau,oleums and under Their trumph.d
archca aud now the names Inscribed there shrink
aud shryel compared with that OF this Chrsau soldier,
Tose gnest 'rqes After ALL are OF ne @ r qa
OF America becomes the nero OF humanity
HIS GREATNESS AND SYMMETRY.
We justified then, in saying OF this that he has
been tired and tested in every mode by which the quail
y OF human heart and the capacity Of human intel
lect be dsclosod by adversely, by prosperity, by
poverty, by wealth. by leadership in debcratyo assem-
bc and IN the pcrous edge Of battle, by the heightL
~, M "Cl Ely, o ZANE, ne 49, "'7 - Do &
comes ont I'M" the sunl nt moro and more clearly does
il to H. their true asI full proportions only when he
lies IN The rcpOsc OF death.
As sometimes IN dead mans face,
To those that watch Il, more ana moro
Ahkcnos,, hardly seen before,
Comes out, TO some one ot his race
So, dearest, nos thy hrows cold.
thee what thou ~ {, and know
Thy likeness to the Wise below.
Thy kindred with the ;rolt Of old
Let us not boast NJ the funeral ~ dead. Such
temper would be- dOubly OiiOu- In the presence such
expressions OF hearty sympathy from governments OF
every form. But should be uuf1'thul 20 ourselves
asking for TINS ace ia the world gallery Of
ii,u,trous names We did not declare that or him
an example of the products OF Freedom. with steady
and even step hc walked from the log cabin and the
canal path 10 the school, the college, to the White
House the chamber OF death. Tho ear, iii which tae
voices " his ~ mailing hin the pinnacle OF
glory had scarcely died out, heard thc voice Of
the dread Archauge, and his copntcnaucc did not
change /, not that country worth dying Tor whose
pcasantry OF such strau l. not the Constitution
worth standing by under whose forms Freedom calls
such men To high places Il not the Union worth
saving which gives all OF US the property OF cOuErymen
IA sJCI a fame I