Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-10-02
ORR MARryREp PRESIDENT
4 the National sorrow

Rev T. o. o. samuel /, 80: The beauty Of
Tex ;s siain upon the high places ho"
are are the mighty fallen esr. the Ameri-
dc Tbore is but one topic before lie nd mi
lne ao,,Ie today. The profound ana r uni
eau p oloom and sorrow give to aFo hoa van
'elsal ava theme. Voices nom Hu' "
Pr pu ICES from earth are speahin ~ nraver
anu '' Owe thought one feehnS' -, o.aI ~ ono
10Y. ao ont every other SI'
80 community in the i" 1 sro,,,afb;z;,o
e'e W.T. mean these 9o' az pphron 111
mn~ along our streets .neSo ~ ali a,,r
p n, these mourning go -nast theSs
. mUr these flags al nan nos aIothaJ ~
business business and public buildings u oao'neu -
hack these tollinS pens tAeso iln n:
Suna ,ab tbe land, carrying to their last resting
'ltousn 18th the lamented and illustrious re-
PM - 4ba nations Chief Magistrate, the
a tl.,IlS President of the United States of
,m1arisa Fifty millions of people are es-
Alrtra that burial procession. Every State
sol ~. 10 rnion is a pail bearer. Every man,
ma II ,no and obild is a mourner And on
,,a4 nassinp scene of silence and Of glory
IN sT" Utilized nations ara gazing with pro-
sorndest reverence and with united sorrow.
president Garfield is dead Did ever
calder tidings fall on the ears of the nation!
WI memorable day in our history was
w. rrasdavl On the million inhabitants
Of onr great cities the midnight bells broke
tba starry silence and told the tidings. None
rrboso sInmbers were thus broken will ever
forg4t the mournful sadness of those mid
MONT requiem bells and from city to city
on3 hamlet to hamlet through the broad
land from Elberon's Atlantic waves, where
tba great man died, to the far away West,
whore the Pacific reverberates, the sorrow
mi intelligence flashed On the wings of the
Gghtning, and business was suspended,
and the flags dropped, and schools closed,
and tears flowed down women's cheeks, and
the little children, the while, hushed their
sports, and strong men clasped their hands
in the pressure of unwonted tenderness,
snd stood barred and in silence, and the
day seemed like Sabbath from end to end
The like of it was never seen on earth be-
fore in this, or in any other land.
President Garfield is dead, and sorrow
and gloom fill the nation as it never was
Tiled before. The death angel has entered our
every home and we are every one of lis III
affection We stand together around d
common bier and look with crushed hearts
and wet eyes into common national grave
President Garfield is dead and liberty
nourns throughout the world. The patriots
of every land mourn. The struggling sons
of humanity and toll and hope mourn il
every cline and on every shore the wide
world over.
Six months ago l witnessed the grandest
spectacle ever beheld in this or any Other
land It was the Inauguration OF President
Garfield The magnificent civil and militia
~ pageant filled the Capitals broadest
avenue from end to end dozen times with
chiyalry and glory. The whole city was
afame with gorgeous attire. lnnumerable
bands poured forth in ceaselesS and COM
Iningling streams their loudest and mos
victorious strains, and at the head of it all
and in the midst of it all, upon him a La
TONS honors, and around him nations
prayers, rode IN triumph the hero of thu
day; the Chief Magistrate elect of the great
est republic on the globe. There come
back to ne again and again that glitterins
street thatmighty throng of men and soldiers
the deafenlng cheers of admiration and re-
Jolclng the laundering guns the thrilling
music, the waving banners, and the MAJ
on whom all eyes were fixed, around whom
the thousands surged, and on whose ear
fell, all along the line, the heartfelt bene
diction, God bless YOU" at the head G
that proud column, wearing his unsough
honors with such modesty, and who re
turned the huzzas of loyalty and pride wit
uncovered head, bowling in perpetual reco|
milton of the universal homage. No sue
spectacle and demonstration ever before
our country's history greeted President
Inauguration and bore him TO the place of h
executive dominion.
Six months have gone-six brief month
and what q change! That pageant {
splendor has become a cortege of deatl
Another procession moves along that victor
Gus street. The shouts of rejoicing hay
turned to sounds of lamentation. With bowe
heads men walk those avenues, and the no
iday glory has changed to the blackness
the tomb.
Was ever President inaugurated vii
higher visions, or with prospects of
brighter future before him! He was lay
fully elected. He was in the prime of h
life. The country was in profoundest peac
Universal prosperity blessed tt
land. He had reached the crown {
human ambition, and stood confesse
On the summit of earthly glory. He was
\ be, as no man before him had been, IL
gaatt0ns President; to know no North, Soutl
hSol, Dul llo CuObtu VI SOu
nrln8 IN upon our land the day of wide
soou WIN, unity and harmony among all IL
4 states; peace, brotherhood and happine
4 throughout all our borders.
-Four months of Presidential rule. with i
crushing responsibilities and tormenting G.
perlence of office and the man ,
"hom the country was so proud, and fro
"nom 1t expected SO much and to whom
WIN such boundless, almost child-lke co,
Huehce 1t had entrusted its care and destin,
iAlS and that on the very scene of his tt
4 Gmphs, and in broad daylight-not by fo
uiSease CT lingering sickness, but by tt
Sealthy assassln's hand, and another Pres
ueht passes INTO history and becomes e
rolled among the illustrious and immorta
The universal gloom and sorrow whiC
4 cover this land from shore to shore, and Il
inexpressible sense of personal loss and n
honal calamity everywhere manifested a
not due primarily to the telegraph wiz
which carry intelligence in flash throuI
the country, nor to the holy horror and
dlgnation with which patriotic people ]
gard the atrocious crime which struck t
PRESIDENT down. There are other and deep
causes than these, and they can be easi
explained, and to some of them | invite 70
attention.
( President Garfield was, in every sense
the word, an eminently great man. bv re
son of certain rarest endownantS .,
qualities, combined in extraordinary MI a
and rounded in exceptional cornpleten il.s
one of the greatest men this country has n
duced. | do not know single Presid,
from Washington to the present time IL
all in all, unites in regal symmetry ,
fullness SO many characteristics and
1 ments that make man truly great.
i President Garfield was physically or,