The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-07-14

fuences and tendencies that threaten and imper'
s'raint ana removal Of them We invoke t the
immediate, strenuous and continued ald
Of good men every - WI where as+,., tn nst
cutcheon, We recognize in the sorrow and 1ndgna.
ton of our whole people over this event that
broth fo9 ana unity nnce .sev that
hereby record our thanks to Almighty Coo
for his great goodness in preserving tho l1e OF our
hop eO that hat We '> arc now permitted to cher
IL T. Su.!tss nd hi;
Garfield and his family the assurance OF our re-
spectful and most tender sympathy With them IN
the condition of danger and suffering through
OHIO VETERANS
CAMP BURNETT, July e.-The Soldiers and
Sailors Veteran society at meeting to-day
adopted the following:
sau't on tie president of our county, Co Try
feelings of those who have faced the bulle
of open and honorable foes, who are bound " with
our honored president in the tie Of comradesh'p
Resolved, That We exec-ate the cowardly and
treacherous assassin and condemn his act
as the most atrocicus and causeirss
in all the record Of crimes tuat in opinion the
criminal laws applying TO such cases should be SO
changed that attempt on the life OF the chief
executive any public officer whose sudden
death would endanger the safety and good order or
be punished such; that his suferilgs have our
sympathy, while in his fortitude and courage we
recognize the high qualities which have ever mark
ed him soldier and citizen: that the more favora
BILE tidings at this date lead us to frrvenrly
hope that our ruling providence who holds our
president in the hollow of his hand will preserve
him for wider usefulness and more perfect service,
and that dreadful this event now seems, we may
yet look back upon it as blood sacrifice mat
washed away the last yestige of sectional hates and
factional bitterness and ushered the natlon into
the light and peace OF more perfect day: that we
extend to President Garfield and all the members
of his family, sympathy and love, with an earn
est prayer for his complete recovery.
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC CONFERENCE
sGss, 5o The J pS9s S1: the session of the
Northern Pacific Conference of Congregational
and Union churches, at Glyndon, the following
resolutions were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That we extend to beloved chief
magistrate, Gen. James A. Garfield, deepest
and most heartfelt sympathy for him in this, the
honr of his suffering and distress: and do assure
him that in the insane act which has stricken him
down We feel that blow has been aimed at
our own lives. We beg to assure him also
that our earnest and united prayers go up TO al
mighty God for his speedy restoration to health
and soundness and that he may be spared yet many
years to be blessing and All honor to country
Resolved That COPY of the foregoing resolu-
ions b. signed by the moderator ana c'erk OF TIL:
Paul PIONEER PREss and Minneapolis Tribune for
publication. Q. NJ. Smith. Moderator.
Thos- w. Dunlap, Clerk.
AvIGoRoUs VOICE FROM IOWA
Special Correspondence of the Pioneer Press
Dies MONIES, July 6.-The excitement and
indignation of the people in this State over the
attempted assassination of the president was
never before equaled, not by the assassination
war, and the threats against the leaders of the
New York party who are responsible for this,
are full Of meaning and general. Every patrl-
otto American citizen who has given voice TO
liz -, 1oll %ho% -I,ofa
be taken of the assassination and the
causes that led to it, that the New York faction
are directly responsible for it; and if the signs
Of the times and the public pulse are not de-
ceptive, the names OF Gulteau, Arnold, DAVIS:
Toombs Conkling and Booth will go hand in
hand down through American history.
THE CLEVELAND DEMOCRATS
CLEVELAND, July 9.-The Democratic cou-
vention of this county, in session today.
unanimously and heartily adopted the follow
ing. offered by Hon. J. P S;'aulding'
Resolved. by the Democratic convention, this
9th day of July assembled, that, locking upon
IL inei president Garfield ssd ebe the e1ee9ra o
to deprive him of life as one of the most heinlous
character; that the president be rendered on deep
est sympathy with himself and his family in
that under kind providence he
is likely to be restored 10 health: that we recon-
mend to the enactment of laws for the pro
lection of the persons Of our executive officers It
the seat of government.
THE LONDON PRESS.
LONDON, July Ohio attempt on President
Garteds life forms the leading topic Of dis
cussion in the principal weekly journals which
comment in the sympathy strain.
TIE VOICE OF THE PRESS.
CONSERVATION OF THE spoILs SYSTEM.
Springfield Republican,: The assassination
OF President Garfield by a disappointed office
seeker is the contamination of the spoils system
Gu;teau is a miserable ne'er-do- we'll, who
shares tho common feeling that all the Offices
are in the dispensation of the president of the
United States, and that he has claim upon
that functionary for patronage. He is in sym
patty with Arthur and Conkling in the strug-
gle over the New York custom house. Hi.
wits have become only degree more disor-
dered than those of Conkling himself, and be-
ing much weaker man his vengeance has
taken the direct and vulgar form Of pistol
shot rather than the more refined form Of re-
signing the seats of the Republican majority in
the United States senate and demanding . viu-
dication from the State of New York
This presidential assassination, therefore, in
the broad view. means that VIC. as PEOPLE, are
drunk with ofice-seeking. and it will sober us,
1t will teach us the danger of associating With
every presidential election the chance of revo-
need to interpose between the president Of the
United States and the greed for these Offices.
tho restraints Of system Of appointment and
promotion which will save him from the per-
a. now distributed The vicious system
by which the ma ority OF nation
al convention nominate the president
and throw the vice presidency as sop to the
minority always necessitates q shock and in
vites change Of policy when power passes
from one to the other. Mr.: Hayes was happy
in his vice president and never developed q
quarrel with Mr.. Wheeler: Gen. Garfield had
not been in Office month before gap opened
between him and Arthur Arthur has de-
nounced the appointment of Collector Robert
son, dragged his own high Office to Albany to
lobby for the reelection of Conkling and Plat,
and has disgraced himself by the utter abandon
with which he has taken service to ConklinS.
New Orleans Times: The course of Hon. Ros-.
coe Conkllng and the course OF Mr.. Guiteau OF
Chicago have proceeded on the same ideas
have been inspired by the same motives, are
outgrowths of the Same system. That shot in
the Washington depot is picket-shot to warn
Come what will. it is = shot to warn! Can We
not ransom the highest Office on earth from its
degradation? Must the PRESIDENT of the imperial
republic be employed to carry offal to wolves.
Shall the wolvea turn and rend him when the
offal won't go round? Call it "civil service re-
some way found out Of this dirty mire into
which we have sunk the land which degrades
the presidency to q klngship over buzzards,
and tempts every foul beak, untitled and dis
fury. He lies to-day the center Of an empires
tears and prayers! The victim Of miserable
assassin? No! The victim of = peoples will
ing degradation! The victim Of the detestablo
and foul system of spoils which that people
have allowed to be fastened upon it TO it's
shame If the poor wretch's pistol shot wakes
tho land to that shame, President Garfield will
have suffered, be the ond what it may. - tho
savior of his country
Courier Journal: The mission Of the repub-
lie is not ended; it enters through much tribu-
lation on a career which should be rich with
blessings for all mankind. Hope for the best,
but, best or worse, let us take courage Tho
sorely wounded president speaks thus to US by
his own heroisn1, courage and endurance. We
/ should see to it that hereafter this country is
more worthy Of admiration and imitation Let
us fires the people from the curse of partyiem,
destroy the power Of faction, hold life more
sacred, compel strict obedience to all Law, and
| protect our lives and our homes, not by per-
| sonal violence or by armed force, but by an
elevate public sentiment, and purer public
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