The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-09-11
The President.

Profound sympathy tor the Presi
dent and MS wife is mingled with 10
lversal admiration tor the manly
courage with which he has borne
himself throughout the prolonged
doubt and struggle Whatever the
event, MS name will be always men'
toned by Americans with gratefu
pride as an illustration of these quail
ties which they are fond of believing
to be peculiarly American, and which
charm the popular heart. Like Mr..
Lincoln, President Garfield is noble
representative of the true American,
OF those whom Lincoln himself called
the plain people. By that phrase be
meant those who honestly make their
own way without the aid of fortunate
circumstances. and by the force OF
their own intelligence. This includes
the great multitude of Americans.
They are the people who composed
the town.meetings century ago,
who. without fury or extravaganza OF
any kind, but with the most patient
endurance and persistent heroism,
overthrow the Kings government,
and organized themselves into a ma
ton. They had noble leaders. but
leaders must have something to lead,
A true leader is but an advanced
figure of men of his own spirit. Pres
colt did not win at Bunker Hill by tei
ling his men to withhold their fire
until they saw the whites of the Brit
ish eyes, but by commanding men
who were capable of doing il.
As the President has lain en- his
bed, between life and death, bis
strong body, unspoiled by excess,
tsvoring at every point the healing
energy OF his nature, his strong. mind
eheerfully weighing every chance,
and playfullyU encouraging every
one around him, has been as grateful
a figure to his countrymen IS any OF
those older heroes whom they Justly
and gladly honor. The daily and
almost hourly bulletins from the bed
side at the White House have stir
red every heart as they are stirred by
heroic poetry and tradition. Every
generous man is instinctively proud
OF hero. His heroism is a tribute to
the common humanity. A man is
exalted by seeing what he may also
be and DO. We do not live-or die -
to ourselves alone.
The universally of the feeling is
one of the striking incidents of this
NEST critical time. The Chief Msgls-
trate OF great nation lies wrestling
with death. But amid the general and
sincere grief there is no terror or fore
boding. Stocks do not Waver or de-
cline. Nobody has the vague fear
which followed the disasters OF the
war, and especially the assassination
of Mr.. Lincoln. The reason is that
the blow is not that of one party
against another, which would tend 70
show that we had reached the end OF
the republic. the bloody prescriptions
of Sulla and Marius. 1t ls the result,
indeed, of an intense and malignant
faction; but the cause was at once
seen, and knowing the cause. the
patriotic good sense Of the country
can deal with it. The assassin is OF
the Presidents party, but he believes
that the President has Wronged him
and the party by his distribution OF
patronage. That is the bitter root
which breeds faction within party.
and fans the fires OF party spirit to
fury. The remedy lies. Of course, in
extirpating the root.
Senator Ingalls,, Of Kansas. in a
address at Williams
College, which it was expected the
President would hear, announced
that the substitution of proved fitness
for mere favoritism ia un-Americsn.
It ia painful 10 hear Senator OF the
United States stigmatize opening the
public service to every qualified citi-
zen as uu-American, because i: im-
plies that in bis judgement the
present despotism of patronage,
which excludes an immense proper
ton of Americans from any chance
whatever of entering the public Ser
vice, is peculiarly American. Before
Senator Ingalls, spoke. however, it
had been supposed that If there is
peculiarly American, it is fair
play, or, as Jefferson said, equal and
exact justice to all men"-a justice
which is absolutely denied by the sys-
tenn which Senator Ingalls indirectly
and by implication defends.
Bot as the President lies low, Dem
,crats and Republicans equally share
he sorrow. Indeed, the Legislature of
Georgia which,is democratic. at once
declared its sympathy and horror,
nod in the Republican Legislature of
New York the Democrats, even before
he Republicans, forcibly expressed
heir deteststion of the deed. Dsmo
rats and Republicans alec agree upon
be significance ofthe crime and upon
he proper remedy. One observer
ays that the pistol of Guitsau has
ataIly wounded the spoils system.
However ahat may be,.it has imperst-
vely drawn the attention of the
to the necessity of abating
The fury OF faction by obvious and
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