Daily globe., 1881-09-20
Comments of the Press.


1 CHICAGO, Sept 19-The Times has col
ssumn of editorial chiefly devoted to a sketch OF
sthe wonderful career OF the late President Gar
Field. Itsays: The most important incident
! of his five months administration, was that
! to which he owes his death-the contest with
Mr.. Conkling. Throughout his career
5he bore himself with a firmness and
gdignity which served to confirm the
public confidence and gave promise that in the
discharge of his high trust he would not fail
to remember what was due to his own self
respect and to the Office of chief magistrate.
In closing this brief review it is hardly worth
Ewhile to recall the fierce assaults made from
stime to time on his character. No public man
) I'm this country escapes such attacks. In most
cases it must unhappily be confessed they are
Swell deserved. To say General Garfield erred
Eat times is but to say he was human, but the
Sproof that his errors were corrupt or criminal
twenty-five years of public service,
most of them years in which
: the accumulation of wealth was easy, and The
Stemptations for public men were constant,
Eand that he was still poor man wheE chosen
spresident, must be accepted by the candid
Smind as conclusive proof Of
Shis integrity. He served his
gcountry we'll and faithfully according to the
flights of his conscience gave him, and will be
sheld IN grateful remembrance for that service
aand for the manifestation of high purpose
i (which he has not been spared to execute, to
srescue the executive office from the degraded
position into which it had fallen in the hands
Eof his predecessors. c
NEW YORK TRIBUNE.
NEW YORK. Sept. 2O.-The reaper of death
tbo
sstruggle which has kinded the admiration of
I the world for his heroic manhood President
sGarfeld has gone to the still heights where
scrime and pain come not. He looks down
Eupon a mourning nation which he
#hoped to help by a wise discharge of
kduty. Worthier men than Abraham Lincoln
: and James A. Garfield this country has never
Sseen in high station, and each was taken early
3in the term of power and in the prime of man
Ehood Time and poverty, hard life and iron
3 fol tune, had not put out the fire of their gen
erous natures. The deadly bullet of many bat
s sbut the shot of the assassin took
5 each from a sorrowing nation. The presl-
4 dents death will cause less of shock, but
Sfar more sorrow than If he had been shot
zdead the 2nd of July. There was time to learn
$ that the government cannot be shaken by the
death of any man, however high, great or
sgood, but there has been time, too, to learn
ehow great and good man was Garfield.
Elected to the presidency by the votes
8of the people last November the
%great nation holds him in its heart of hearts,
9and there he will live forever. He is president
Emo more. Only four months he held the
&helm, but the work done in that short time
Swill bless the land for ages. No other admin
sistration has ever done more for the good ui
#the country than this which had just begun
The cold and passionless verdict of history.
Ethough il may find fault, will place his name
! afar toward the highest in the list of human
Srulers.
NEW YORK HERALD.
q NEW YORK, Sept 19.-The Herald: In his deatt
THE warm hopes and sympathizing aspirations of tht
whole people all painfully disappointed, and th.
fexpectation of his recovery, Sc warmly cherished o
ESQ long time, adds now to the pangs of ths
public sg regret. ALI Americana, Of
whatever religious faith and whateye,
politics, Democrats who opposed, and Republicans
who reluctantly supported his election shocked sllbe
by the bloody deed whi laid hum low have watched
during these tedious weeks arousd the bedside o.
the patient and uncompaning sufferer, with cordia
with sincere prayers he might be restored to heaItl
and his official duties Indeed the whole civize worl
+ has watched and prayed with them. But it was nc,
to be. The hand Of the murderer was too deadly
aud at last his victim has perished and yet the LONG
period of the presidents illness has not been lost
&The people have learned precious lesson in these