Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-10-02


thereby with Jefferson and Madison and |
John Quincy Adams Every college and |
university in the land was proud of him at |
the head of the nation. Men of letters |
everywhere received him into their republic. |
He was pre-eminently the Glandstome of
America among all our public men,
President Garfield was great statesman.
He loved his country with an intense and
holy affection. Its history, its memories,
its institutions, its government, its material
greatness, its progress, its honor among the
nations and its infinite future-these were
the sanctities of his heart, the inspiration
of his whole life and the golden splendor of
his royal finished career. No narrow policy
of human rights, or education, or local JUS
tice or sectional development and advantage
ever was conceived in his hesrt or found ad-
vocacy at his lips. In bis conceptions of
the pubic good he was as broad as the ter
ritory over which floats the flag or flies the
eagle of the Union. Though of party, as
every President and statesman of our entire
history has been, and must in the nature of
the case be, he was no partisan no pent up
Utica confined his powers; no sectional
visions blinded the eyes of his judgment,
counsel or vote. He was not politician of
the modern school, and as such he has
hONCA DOCA IILACl W AA1Ohu VI Aoo- LID
country in it's unity and entirety, its pros
perity and advancement, its honor and its
| peace--to this end he consecrated every
| impulse of his heart and every effort of his
official life. Charged with patriotism and
full of kindling conceptions of his country's
greatness and opening glory was his every
| speech before schools and colleges, on our
State stumps and national Platforms in our
legislative halls and, most notably, that
eloquent, patriotic, peace-breathing in
augurai, which fell like benediction on
the land and captivated every citizen of the
republic.
Radical yet conservative, broad minded,
watchful, fearless, self .centered, unselfish,
incorrupt constant such was Garfield the
statesman, and as such among all our public
men will he pass into permanent American
history.
President Garfield was great in moral
character. He possessed in an unusual de-
gree those sterling qualities which made
Washington great
Great not like Caesar, stained with blood,
But only great as he was good"
The American people everywhere admire
men of profound convictions, strong faith,
resolute WILL firm self-reliance, patience
that never tires, purity, earnestness, sim
plicity and honor, fidelity to duty, and
moral bravery, and Garfield certainly pos
; sessed these virtues of grandest manhood In
pre-eminent degree. With the devotion
and constancy of hero he illustrated them
) in private life, and in public life. as a
, teacher, as counsellor, as a soldier on the
/ field of battle, and as soldier, how grandly
, when during those eighty days Of mortal
conflict he marched with such intrepidity
down the valley of the shadow of death.
Among The strongest of the strong, the
bravest of the brave, the truest of the true,
no stain upon his honor, no flaw in his in
tegrity, no living scandal on his name. Like
Tennyson's Sir Galahad,
He had the strength of ten
Because his heart was pure"
And like England's Iron Duke, emhalmed
; in the Laureates immortal ode,
"Who never sold the truth TO serve the
hour,
: Nor paltered with Eternal God for power,
q Who let the turbid stream of rumor flow
Through either babbling world of high o.
low,
= Whose life was work, whose Language
rife
With rugged maxims hewn from life"
? President Garfield was universally beloved
. in every sphere and relation of life. I'll
n possessed those deep rich soul qualities
) which gather about one ten thousand friend
y and hold them forever. He had a grea
# warm, loving heart, royalty endowed witt
t sweetness and tenderness and sympathy
j. never closed in selishness ever yelling VI
h and breaking forth in spontaneous goot
2 will and affection towards everybody. HI
h was everybody's friend and everybody
IN brother. When boy his manliness an
IS magnanimity drew all his playmates to hi
| Si6a and Wban in illiop,S Collar
he was idolized alike by students and fac
s, ulty. As teacher and college president i
If the West he held his three hundred student
/. to him by hooks of steel. Almost every
i body-men, women and children-kne'
re him by face and hand-shake in the famOu
ID old 10Th district of Ohio. What he was il
l. his home, how noble and affectionate, hoy
of thoughtful and tender, the model kindl
father, the dutiful son, the knightly hus
tn band, the whole country knows. That Ga,
q field home, with its purity, culture. sweet
" ness and love, has gone like magic int
is every household of America, and like a
e. influence from heaven it will refine an
lie sanctify them through lasting days, "a thin
Of of beauty and a joy forever"
ID In the congress of the nation he was Ell
to deared to all who knew him. and by non
lie was he more esteemed than by those VIII
d, differed with him in sentiment an
to section, and from none have
st read more beautiful and touchin
he testimonials of attachment and devotion
SIS Says leading Democratic ex-senator of th
West, "When he LETT the House of Repre-
is sentatives he had not among them all Sill
x gle personal enemy" In our America
Of councils, where he was so long the leader {
M his party, he was ever peace maker, a
4, ways pouring water on the troubled water
D. ready with concession and apology, nev'
y, bitter or denunciatory, never scornful
l. vindictive, never glorying in another dow
III fall, or in his own superiority or promotion
le How beloved he was by the whole Amer
81 can people this past week has overwheln
n ingly shown. He was in every sense of tt
II. word a typical American, and the very ma
N the people like to own and crown. He hs
he sprung from them. He was poor boy, Il
a. son of a widowed mother, who God BILE
re her the proud mother of the big boy
es still lives. He had struggled up through to
5h and poverty and hardship and WEAKNESS
N tow boy, farm hand, a country schoo
re- teacher, working his way into and throue
he college, and by his own good right har
er carving his heroic way to greatness and r
lily nown. In the prolonged, bitter campaie
ur which ended in his election, no argumel
told SO persuasively on the sympathies al
of suffrages of the people as the romance of b
a life, the story of the poor boy strugglir
nd and buffeted through his early years, den
on ing himself every comfort and helping his d
= pendent mother, working early and lat
TO- and while his conlpanions slept toiliI