The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-27


he became ripe scholar. As president OF
the United States he showed himself fully
equ-l TO al emergencies rs they arose, and
regardless Of parties or fsetions he deter
mined 10 uEearth all frauds that he'd been
committed against the government and
proved by his conduct that he was not the
president of party but OF the whole people
of this great nation.
He has tAllen martyr to principle. And
while we express or grief and minge our
tears with the people of every sec
ton of our country we fully
believe that the great sutierings and death OF
President Carried has done more to unite
the people of every section of the union than
all other causes combined since our late civil
war. Truly the blood OF Garfield hiss ce-
mented all hearts. For the life and services
Of this erea, and good man the American
people are indebted to his mother, whose
memory will be cherishedas long AS that OF
the mother Of Washington.
COL J. SIMPSON.
It6ink il was sixteen years ego when a
mighty msss of people surged and swayef
around the city hall of New York. Their
blood WAS hot, and il swept through their
veins like that of tiger when IFS wbeln lies
slain before it Abraham Lincoln, president
of tho Unted States, had been stricken
down BY tho hand Of the assassin, stricken
At that supreme moment of victory, when "a
government of the people, by the people and
for the people" had achieved success on the
earth. Brilliant speakers had addressed this
vast concourse OF men. passions, deep and
deadly, had been stirred TO their utiermost
4. n.,la,a. vonu-tp.r tho prtfNpp,
of msior-general Of United States volun-
teers, stepped upon the stand. The words
he uttered then Of Lincoln, | utter to-day Of
him: God reigns, and the republic of
Washington still lives. While funeral
bells are tolling the heart throbs Of the nsN
ton, while every flag on the land and the
sea is drsped in mourning, while tho re-
public bows down in grief, there is one con-
ISOLATION shat comes to us, a consolation dear
to the heart of every lover of liberty
throughout the world, "the republic still
lives. "Mr President, it is peculiarly fitting that
on an occasion like this, that taose of US who
wore the gray, who followed the cross and
bars that went do Nn in the dust and blood
under Lee, should offer with eSrnestDess and
| truth their heartfelt tribute of sorrow at the
death of our president. l would be recresnt
to my profession, u my people and to myself
were | to foil to tender to the stricken wife,
to the venerable, gray haired, loving
mother, our most respectful, our tenderest
sympathy. Our hearts 90 out TO them with
| o holy ant. reverent sorrow, with aregret too
full, too deep, too heartfelt for words. As
the embodiment of the dignity and respect
of the republic, we regret him, as the exem-
| par OF tho knightiest manhood of the high
est character of American citizenship we
| regret him, as u loving husband, lender
sou, and brave soldier do We bid him a
lasting farewell.
He offered his life md hia all upon the
altar of his country, unanimsted by the
clamor of contest or the shock of battle, and
until the pail of oblivion shall fall upon the
glories Of the past and the greatness oftbe
present will the life snd character Of james
A Garfield be embslmed in the respect and
affection of the American people.
Great deeds heroic words, thoughts sublime
and beautiful strike responsive chords in all
hearts, aud these be gave US to exalt and
ennoble our race, to inspire, mould and sway
present and future generations. MANY
eloquent and truthful eul0gies have. like
fragrant immortelles, been placed upon his
Chehbb utTO kO-Nh1' plhCt iuilio tuolc WIN
the humble Rud reverent hope that this
sflliotion may bind us together as one people
and lead us on to a higher, purer and nobler
national life.
COLONEL GEORGE W. HYNSON.
Mr.. president and gentlemen, | thsnE sou
for the honor you have done me in calling
upon mo for an expression Of my feelings
and sentiments to-day. know my inability,
my inequality TO the undertaking of even do
ing semblance of justice in the way Of
eulogy or panegyric to tho great and goCu
man to-day laid away forever underneath the
sods of the valley But he needs neither
eulogy or psnegyric; he needs neither
sculptured marble or engraven brass 90 per-
petuate what he was, what be achieved The
hearts Of the people is the proudest urn
that could be shaped for his memo ,;
the grandeur and the glory of
his achievements, the tale of which W asst
as time lasts, is moro glorious than col
umn or slab that human hand &C" erect.
To-day q nation mourns nation Jss, and
had the power. in so far as human efforts
and human testimonials are concerned, |
would see that monument arose above his
grave, grave consecrated as it ia by u
nations tears, so lofty that tho first beams OF
the morning sun as it clsmbered above the
eastern horizon would greet It and the last
glow of that same sun rs it sank TO rest amid
the golden and crimson glovies of the west
should halo it rs With crown of eifugenCe.
A nation to-day mourns a nations
loss,and while we have tears and sympathy for
the president that is dead, for the widow who
mourns him ss only woman widowed indeed
can mourn, while his children, in the fresh
bloom of their youth and of their childhood,
know only now the shadow of an unspeakable
sorrow, while the aged mother, whose eyes
can almost SEQ the summer forests, the purl-
ing streams of the sweet beyond, and yet is
bowed down with the anguish Of Sret,an be
cause all this is so, We have sympathy, we
have coincidence, we have An unutter,
able kindness and love for those of
his family who are so sorely
stricken, and we have reverence for his
memory, for his grand achievements
that time, nor circumstances nor even fate,
fell ~ Il may be, can change. 'We all do
know that in his great life he hath borne his
faculties so meek, hath been clear in his
great Office, that his virtues will plead like
ANGELS, trumpet.tongusd, against tho deep
dsmnation of his taking off; and pity, like
naked, newborn babe strdiug tho blast, or
heavens cherpoim, horsed upon the sightless
cou-iers Of the sir, shall blow tho horrid
deed in every eye, that tears shall drown
the wind | say now, Mr.. President and
gentlemen, and it makes my heart swell With
the grandest emotions within me, II the peo~
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