Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-29
NO. 80.

cellent executive, and do credit not only 90
his party bat the entire nation.
In this spirit and belief No stand ready
and willing % sustain him IN whatever be
may attempt 90 further the public good
and the national prosperity.
We know that General Garfield has
experience and ability, and VIC believe II
his intention to prcserve and promote the
welfare Of the country, regardless Of any
narrow party line.
And 70 we extend our best wishes TO
| President Garfield.
"In this faith We have rested since those
lines were written, with abiding confidence
IN the honest purposes Of Gen. Garfield
"And when ths grieVous news Of bic
wounding came upon Us IL fell with thrill
ing force. bringing freshly to mind his
manly and lovable qualities.
"Therc has been 30 much Of sympAthy
mAnitested throughout the world for the
President and his family and the Ameri-
can people ia this trying hour, that VIC
fear 10 attempt what other pens have
! handled 20 wisely.
"Thc Albany Argus, (thc representative
Democratic paper in this State expresses
- aptiy the views We entertain on the
painful subject that We quote the greater
portion Of its comments
Party lines disappear; party walls Of
division fall down the consciousness Of
manhood and AmericaBhood dominates
! the thinki' z and the words Of all, as our
nation stands, revercnlly uncovered bv
the bedside OF it, Ruler, and prays that
the cup Of death may not press his lips,
and that his people may not have their
annals sbamed again by the stain Of q
Presidential assassinAiion. Differ as men
have done, and may do hereafter, on a.
fairs, on officials and on policies, crime
like this, which flAckens the very pulse Of
n People, fuses their hearts into unity,
into love, into patriotism, and into a pray
or " Divine Power 20 save the President;
| 10 sustain the wife and children in their
hifiiciion; 20 guide the minds Of the sur
geons and nurses TO right endeavors, and
20 preserve, protect and defend the Union,
whose authority itself has been wounded
by the bullets meant 20 slsy him who i'm
Personatcs its power.
How trivial and transient our conien-
iious seem in the rush or hush Of an event
like this How much more il country
than party In the light Of this dispensAtion
| How impossible IL is 10 remember estrAnge-
ments, divisions and discussions, and how
impossible not to remember the things for
which he was pride unto his countrymen,
who made him their ruler lie came up
from poverty 10 power by diligence, pur-
pore and the steady training OF q gifted
! intellect He went TO eehool 70 hard work,
and manual labor carried him through the
institutions Of learning. He made his
Spartan mother ht 20 be d breeder Of
kings, his contdsnt and the partner Of his
purpose 10 win fame He married the
| wife of bis youth, and the birth angel, and
the death angel, have often equally sane.
titled bis home. He carly became a leader
Of the people, among whom he lived He
marched with the college lads whom he
taught, 70 the battles for the Union, and
and for eightesn years he WAS q cerebral
force in the halls Of Congress, until the
sudden choice Of the party he served nam
cd him for President Under the laws
and by the people, be was in truth elected.
And on this summer day, in pause Of
duty, on bis way 10 his alma mater, he il
shot down.
'All that he has given OF words 10 our
eloquence, of bravery 10 our battles, Of
dignity and power 10 our parliame1ts, Of
gentleness 20 our social life, Of thought
and fact to our literature, and Of mental
Indictment and example to our people, re-
wives 10 recollection, with his noble person.
his hearty manner, and bis free western
ways. All that is Of power and greatness
in the Presidency revives with this memory
of him, as that Of children 10 a father. as
he lies on his bed Of pain
And now that the President Is dead, not
only are political Animosites quenched but
there come 10 as, from the South the un-
mistsksble and welcome evidences Of re-
stored iraternal regArd-such fusing OF
hearts as ! believe this nation has never
known. Listen to a single quotation from
the many which come 60 us from all parts
Of the South, taken from the Selma (Ala.l
Tunes Sectional lines are obliiers.ed-
washed out in Garfeld's blood, and the red
hand Of the assassin has placed the last
stone in the Union structure" "
Standing upon the summit Of the Appa-
chian range, plainly in our sight to-day.
there are many points where The waters
divide, flowing westward 70 the Father Of
Waters and then 30 the Gulf. and eastward
20 the Atlantic. Citizens Of the Republic 50
stand We to-day. Back of Us into the past
flow the waters Of discord, Of party hate,
Of sectional strife and the bitterness en-.
gendered by eur late unfortunate fratcrnal
struggles before us, blessing the present
and glorifying the future, are the placid
waters Of peace, Of amity, Of frsternal re.
gaFu ana Oh q mutual understanding and
agreement The sad wounds indicted By
the exigenciea of war are 30 be healed bv
single wound made upon the body of
noble and 9 peaceful man who has borne
IN bis body, II may be, the Gins Of the ma.
ton. As We gaze into the placid waters
which now out from us into the future,
does there come 20 us and TO all who like
Us through the length and breadth Of The
land, mourn common bereavement, a de-
termination TO aid in this national nacii-
cation Are we allied with high and pa
triotic resolves Is We stand by the dead
and the grave which ovcrlcoks the lake
which washes our own shores Are We
ready to take up the noble mission which
W timely death leaves uafal6iled If
there come TO Us such determination and
such patriotic resolves A the lesson of this
bereavement, surcly--sarclys f1s hattie i
NOT lost
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