National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-26
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place to Which James s Rbmm GaT ThIS' was called
IN the fact that he the product OF our free In
stilutiQns The American people. did not make
MIN great. HAD they never selected him TO occupy
inc presidential chair the man had been the same
Ana we may well ask IL God did not give him the
place and his brief career in i only that the
people might love him better, and take his name
and his memory more into their hearts forever
The highest product OF American national life Is
neither patrician nor. plebeian. IL blends and
with the plcbeian heart. Washington stands at the
head OF one type, Lincoln at the head Of the other
DO we err when We intimate that Garfield Illus
trates them both2 plcbean, common man in
az his sympathies; patrician II the quality Of
his mind and the extent Of his culture. President
Garheld's honOrs came to him unsought. They
came so fast he could not keep up with them.
while THIS messenger Of The peopile, was speak.
that it was the time was so short.
The greatness which he achieved he did not strug
gle for, but grew into. Life laid her honors at his
ieet. Place after place cried out for him He
stood up IN a great convention to advocate the
claims Of another. lie became at once the cynosure
OF all eyes, he rnvlShed all ears lie could not be
true to anothcrwithout being his own best self.
Il was nothing new; II had been so all his life
long. There he stood how could the people help
taxing him2 His nomination was an inspiration.
II was foreordnined, like the consummate bloom
OF the flower This mans power nevcrdegcncrated.
ne was reverent of good things by nature, and to
MN ni good Things were great. lie had no tippant
nings torthe religion of his mother. He revered the
great New England teacher; and when the assassin
mIst sought MN IL was In the sanctuary OfGod. lie
finished his education IN New England. 1t was
fitting that New England hands should place the
capital on this column, which was to go into the
temple of freedom side by side with Washington
aud Lincoln; that he who began his studies where
he heard the language of the Great Lakes should
conclude them where he could listen to the hymn
which the Pilgrims heard when they laid our first
foundations lie was the united the cOnsummate
flower of the New England of tho East and the
New England of the West. Do you ask me why he
was so rudely and cruelty takenY Not for his own
sake, we may be very sure. He was our President
our representative. In shifting him God has
smiitcn us. Do not our relations TO God need fresh
readjustmcnt2 Have we kept the covenant we
made with Him when lie walked with us in the
furnace of iire2 Have the men in our highest
TO the Indian question, as to MOrmOnism, rs to
traiilc on liquors. Are we true to themP II IL II
at the wheel is stricken down the Ship
Of State moves mRjcsticaly on; that
the footsteps of God are IN the seas before her.
Such Government as this cannot die It does
which made Garfield President Indicated his sue
ccssor. We turn away from Garfield dead not to
forget him Ifhe has made mstakes-ns who OF
our greatest have not, and have we not forgiven
them let Us remember that his hand was
scarcely familiar with the helm of state that he
was yet III the narrows of his administration, and
that his greatest mistake must always have sprung
from great loving heart that feared no ~ be;
against than SHINING. In taking one, God has
given another. The man whom the people named
second God has now named first. No unlincal
hand takes the sceptrc; but Il man of character
and purpose true and tried; man who has
walked In the shadow Of one great eclipse with
pathetic discreetness which has won all hearts,
and whose first official acts and utterances give as
surance that with these unsought responsibilities
has come to him peculiar grace from God. If he
has made his mistakes we bury them in that still
open grave of his predecessor. May we not close
with the lines In which the poet Tennyson finishes.
the poem Mort dArthur:
The old order chnngeth, yielding place to her,
And God iunlls Himself In many ways
Lest one good custom should corrupt world
And so to bed; where yet In sleep seemed
To sail with Arthur under looming shores.
To me methought
There came a bnrquethat flowing forward. bore
King Arthur. modern gentleman
OTStateliest part; and all the people cried
Arthur IL come again; he cannot diet"
When the Nation awnkens from her grief may
she find the parable true Then shall be fulfilled the
prophecy: Thou shalt be no more called FOrsaken.
Neither shall thy land be termed any more Desc.
late: But thou shalt be called HcphZibah and thy
land Bculah. For the Lord delighteth in thee"