The weekly Arizona miner., 1881-09-23

mDufu1Jl occasion. The uea1 or tilc uallcu. the representative of the people has been stricken down by an assassins hand. Rever- euce for the memory of the good and great IS one Ot the noblcst attributes implanted III our breasts. and CHe most benetcent III Its developments and results. It IS the testI- mouv which nature bears to its own charac- ter-the ehusiUn of her gratitude to that
 Power which stamped that character upon
 her Not A despot has fallen, but our own representative
 Before tee inauguration of our Republic
 power had resided iii the ruler claimed b. dlvine right. but generally attained and held
 by force 60. fraud. With the birth of OUT
 RegHbiic5commenccd the era of the whole
 rulng power being vested in the people
 This WIS great era In human rights, the
 reoplc becoming the sovereigns and the ruler holding and yielding such powers
 a.,ly as had been attorned and delegated to hini by the people. Thus we become the
 responsible actors. Whether conscious of
 IL or not, whether We realize it or not, we
 are now acting our part in the great drama ol ci,ll liberty and rights of mankind, and our acts are to help to form the social state and n,o.al condition of those who shall sue c1oa us, and those who in all coming time ] crorv condition the whole consequences of
 the manner in W hich VIC discharge our trust. On the 2nd day of last July, at the Capi tsl of the Nation, only four short months
 after that Capital had blazed with the illunii nations and reverbersted with the rejoicing acclaius of the thousands upon thousands
 who greeted his inauguration, our Chief Yaerstrate, the great tribune of the people, .rs..rrr.-f-rrTFsa no t,io,rs rulor in the world was stricken down by the hand of a vile and wretched assassin. That a. s.-sin has obtained immortality of iniamy. Had not christian charity forbid we were ready to exclaim:
 ..I. there not some hidden curse,
 Some cEsscn tllaaEeF in the stores of heaven, Rcd with uEcommou wrath,
 To bizzt the wretch
 who could perpetrate the dreadful act. The blow was struck, and horror and gloom pervaded the land. All partissn s,fife and clamor vas silenced on the in-
 srant Not only political parties, but re- .ecious classes and all classes joined with equal fcrvUr in the vail of horror that went over the land. Then came the long suspense,
 with it's ebb and flow of apprehension and hope. hour after hour, day after day, week after week, and month after month, till not only the people of this land, but those of | the whole civilized world hung with bated breath over the quick succeeding bulletins ! that filled the press of this and other lands ] During this long and anxious suspense We 1 have seen the venerable mother of our stricken President at her home, in Mentor, | waiting, hoping, praying, agonizing for good tidings from her noble son. We have seen
 the devoted wife rising from bed of sick ness. and during all these weary and anxious days and weeks and months of suspense, con stautly. day by day, and night by night, Hitting guardian angel around the bed of her i wounded husband. Our nder sympathy pathy has gone forth to the children whose ! familiar and afectionate intercourses with 1 their father has been rudely and suddenly l terminated The family of our Chief Mag stI1te was a model for us all. But the sus- pensc IS ended This day has brought to us ] ts tragic and sad termination. Our Presi- dent has died as our. the nations repre- sentative, not as an individual man. No doubt this people will raise broad and high ! the memorial tablet to his memory; but the name of James A. Garfield, pot the Chief | Magistrate or the people only. but the good 1 son. the noble and true husband, the good 1 and judicious parent, the noble and great man is enthroncd m the hearts of the Amori- 1 caE people.
 Obelisks and monumental stone, hoveyc CT highly reared. may tottor and fall in the courses of time. or crumble back to common earth. but the memory of Garfield. the good
 man, will not fail. It will endure and grow brighter with the lapse of time and live for
 ever in the hearts of the people.
 EEHtEKs OF HON. NUBAT siAsTERsoS. Hen. Murat Masterson was next called
 upon to make few remarks. In rising to address the meeting he said that there were
 occasions when speech fails to adequately
 express the emotions cf the heart and
 that this WAS one of them. Truly has
 It been said by the psalmst that speech IS
 silver and silence golden. The very si-
 lence that peryades our meeting. and the gloom that spreads it funereal rail over our
 mountain city, speak in more eloquent
 tones than those of a Demosthenes CT
 Cicero God m his inscrutsbie mercy and
 wisdom has chastened our people and has
 taken away our noble President from our
 midst To-day our nation IS draped in
 mourning and our people are stricken with
 gl1ef Our President Is dead; he has passed
 into the realms uf eternity in the fdiuesS
 Uf his noble virtues and magnificent Iusr- hood. Ills name shall ever remain green m
 the hearts of the people The speaker then
 Iaid an eloquent tribute to the Presidents past record and then retired amidst applause.
 REMARKS or HON. CLARK CBURHILL.
 FELLOW CITsZENS, LADIES AND GENTLE
 NlN:-A great and good man has fallen by
 the hand of the assassin. The nation n"urns, aud thIs mourning Is conhed to no particular class, but IS participated in by all classes, all parties, sects and creeds alike
 IhIs IS justly so, for he whose loss We mourn
 was an injegral-component part-of our
 beloved nation. It IS to this country, as to the loss of a father to hls family While tie widow grieyes and the children weep. wc, who only knew him as the Nations Chef Magistrate, are stricken down with profound sorrow, and deploTc the loss of the
 first citizen of America. ln a nation where the most humble may, by their own ia- dustry and talents, be raised Co the hjghes; positions in power, wealth, rei.own or social 1 position there must be the most profound | devotion to the government. Without it ! no such government can long survive This ' government IS naugh: but the embodiment | of public opinion. II the public sentiment were adverse to its existence, It would | surely fall; and hence It IS that when the '! hand of the assassin IS raised against its Chief Magistrate the people regard the blow as directly aimed at the Nation life. Public opinion placed MT Garfield in the office of i President. He, who would. by violence remove : hIm from that position, outrages that opinion. 1 and thls outrage IS felt alike by those indiyidu- als who were opposed to, well as by those 1 who aided ln hls election. because IL IS an !