The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-09-20


Tmuch in human life. General Gar
afeld had reached the summit of
worthy ambition, and has died a
death that immOrtaliZes him in the
worlds history. Judged from this
standpoint, loving remembrahces
and enduring fame, the President
had little to regret in the hour of
SdiSSolutlon, and his immediate fam
Y no greater cause for violent grief
sthan those who stood about the bed
sSide, friends stricken in the ordi-
mary way, bidding farewell to
searthly hopes and ambitions, at the
gend OF torturing pain. The bitter
sneSS that prevailed early in the
shlStory of this tragedy has given
Fay to a truer sentiment OF grief.
Jwhe President had grown dearer to
the people with every weeks suffer
ing In every household he had
been taken close to the hearts of
\ young and old, and bulletins from
4 the sick room marked in the daily
life of the people periods of agita-
ton, anxiety, hope or despair.
Through all these weeks the Presi-
dent was scarcely out of the
thoughts of the people, and
Jail turned toward him with
tender sympathy and loving
| regards. The death of no public
man in the history of Cover nment,
save that Of Lincoln, has been so
generally regarded as a personal be-
Ireavement. To say this and to
ItruthfullY say it, is praise that no
one need care to have exceeded in
the hour of his own dissolution.
From the New York Herald. In
/ his death the warm hopes and sym
spathising aspirations of the whole
people for his recoYery-so warmly
cherished for so lOng-add now TO
1.-THE pangS of public regret. All
Americans, of whatever religious
faith, and whatever pOlitics-demO-
scrats, who opposed, republicans
8who reluctantly supported his
: electiOn-ShOcked alike by the
sblOOdy deed which laid him low
have watched during these tedious
weeks around the bedside of the
patient and accomplishing sufferer
with admiration for his cheerful,
manly patience, and with prayers
that he might be restored to
vigor and his official status;
land, indeed, the whole civilized
world, has watched and prayed
with them. But it was not
Ito be, and yet the long
period of the Presidents illness has
mot been lost. The people have
learned precious lesson in these
days Of sympathy and doubling
8hope. Above all, it has prepared all
flor hearty aequieScence in the fat
81 which removes the President and
brings in his successor. Thus, the
change which two months ago would
Ahave been received by many with a
considerable degree of unfriendly
Aand even hostile feeling, will now
abe conSummated with the entire as
4sent of all parties; but while we do
mot rebel at assent to an admins
8 New York, midnight, 19.-At this
hour New York is as thoroughly
i awake as at noon usually. Extras
z are being cried through the streets
land the whole town is evidently
awake to the cry. There is no
g doubt that the news was received
as a thunderbolt in the clear
3 sky. For the past few days
S men have been employed in the
Church steeples and fire alarm bell
towers to await the decisive event,
Mand when the solemn news came at
S last it found the people abed and
Sasleep, which fact really added to
athe sOlemnity of the occasion, be-
acause nobody was prepared for the
s worst and could not possibly have
&6een.