Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1881-10-01
MEMORIAL SERVICES.
LEXINGTON OBSERVES THE DAY OF
PRESIDENT GARFIELD'S
BURIAL.
Business Suspended-Funeral Pro
cession-Services in the Church.

| DOh1Aos
Business Observation-Disclosures Pro
cession-Services in the Church.
Mourning in the Hearts Of the Masses
No Sects, No Sections, No Partie
Divide the People.
The Streets Alive-The Houses Of Wor
ship Cowded as They Have Never
Been Before.
On last Monday afternoon. at Cleveland
Ohio. near his home, and in u beautiful city o
the dead, all that was mortal of James Abran
Garfield was hidden beneath the sod. For fou
months he had been president of the Unite'
States, when Guiteau's bullet struck him down
What had been the character OF his administre
tion up to that time, it is unnecessary here t
review. 1t had been good In many things,
wrong in ahy, and had evoked hostility princi
pally from faction of his own party. which
majority OF the people are not disposed to regar'
with favor. The most hostile criticisms OF hi
| administration came from this faction. while
| as is natural. there were comments more orles
unfavorable made upon it by the press and th
public men OF the opposing party. But will
| the smoke of the assas5in's pistol the attack
within and without his party foated of, as ha'
been proven by the result, into ether-they dis
| appeared. 1t was not that honest, conscienciOu,
and sincere men any the less believed wha the,
/ had said in the past to be true, but it Was ths
shock and the horror of assassination being uses
| as political engine In country such rs onrs
The masses in all parties are honest; the heart o.
the people il an honest heart, and it makes few
| mistakes in its sentiments. 1t was necessary tC
| teach demagOgues that the American people
will never condOne assassination of its rulers. In
| the slums of vice, where idieness. lust and in
temperance foment doctrines 80 hellish that they
are more fit for darkness than for light, evenin
this land of liberty, assassination, in5endiar-
| ism, the dagger and the torch. are advocated ss
ft means 10 right fancied or real political
wrongs 1t was necessary for the American
people, in their might and majesty, to show. ut
home and abroad. to friend as we'll as foe, that
such teachings must find no Judgement here.
And nobly have they done it. If any lesson has
grown out Of the sad calamity it is this one.
No political faction or party. however viruleni
in Its tenets, has dared to attempt, to stem the
mighty current Of the pleople, g wrath and sor-
row. This generation will have to pass away
before the lesson Will be forgotten. May the
day never come when Providence will find il
necessary again to teach it at so great a cost.
Thus it was that all over the country, all
churches. all denominations. all creeds.
men of all respectable political parties,
came together last Monday. to do honor to the
distinguished dead, mourn with his loved ones,
and protest by their acts anu words igainst
murder as apolitical weapon. Inithis just and
patriotic work Lexington was not behind her
sister cities AS near as was prscticableGthe
programme printed in the Intelligencerg last
Saturday, WIS carried out. e- =. 70 Iuu
At l O'Clock, sharp, the procession swas
formed on Main street, opposite the courthouse.
by the two marsals, Messrs. .Robt. Eauhman
and A. A. Lesueur, In the following order: ~,
Lexington Guards Band. rs.,,7..
Lexington Guards. Fi-,.f,.
Uniformed PatrIarchs.
Independent order of Odd Fellows. ss.
Lexington Leiderkranz.
Lexington Turnyerein. -,
Michael Davitt Land League, No. 1, of Lex
ingtOn.
The Knights Of Tabor, colored.
The United Sons Of Protection. colOred.
The COOred Masonic Fraternity. IA
The procession when In column was over two
full squares In length, and with It's banners
draped, the arms OF the military reversed and
The band rendering at intervals appropriate
music. it presented an Imposing appearance.
The peculiar feature of the column was the
record of Michael Davitt League, which WAS
borne In the line covered with Grape, in hunor
Of it's imprisoned chief. Tue column moved up
Nam to Third street; countermarched and pass
ed enst Us far rs Main Cross; thence to S0nth
street; thence east to College street;, thence
north to Franklin; thence west to the public
square, where each command marched OF te
the church to which it had been assigned.
AT TIE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
The Christian church was neatly draped in
| mourning, Over the pulpit hung large PIC
| ture OF Garfield, and 1t, together with the pull
pit, chandeliers, clock, &C.. were all draped.
The audience was the largest seen in q
church in this city. The aisles were crowded
with chairs, and every inch of standing room
was occupied. and hundreds went away because
thry could not get in. The Elizabeth Aull
Seminary. the Methodist Seminary and In.
Third Ward school occupied the east section ;
| the Odd Fellows and the Lexington Guards oc-
| cupied part of the west section. while the tive
| middle sections, and every part Of the church
| were crowded with an Intelligent audience,
E'seemingly anxious to catch every word that fell
! from the lips OF the speakers. There WAS re-
| markably good order, which speaks well for the
| intelligence Of the crowd. '-.5- SO .
At 2:lL O'Clock, the house being flled, the
choir. selected for the occasion, sang rl-fb !.
Jesus. lover of my soul. 80 Iuc .
Let me to Thy bosom fly,
While the pillows nearer roll, - = /
While tile tempest still is high .''I1h .
Elder Lucas then read the 18th chapter OF
Corinthians, and offered fervent prayer es-
pecially remembering the orphan children ol
| President Garfield. The choir then sang.
'Come. ye disconsolate. g
Elder Lucas m .de on address, of about fifteen
minutes, in which he spoke very highly of the
| christian character of Mr.. Garfield, and hoped
that his family would become the especial charge
| OF the nation. His remarks were heartfelt,
eloquent and fall of sadness. The choir then
sang :
''WaitIng and watching for Thee"
After which Elder Lucas introduced, as the
speaker Of the occasion, 70 a.. :
MR.. xENorHON RYLANp
Whose speech Was full of eloquence, good ad-
vice and sympathetic feeling. We give his
speech in full: sil a-s
La0lies ana Gentlemen: -, ~.
lit were not for the tears which hallow our
| hearth stones we would be unwilling to leave
| them and the souls OF men would never CIV out
Tor that home where God has SAID he would wine
away all tears from their eyes. -. Il.
There returns one to her home to-day who
| could well enough take up the language of one
OF the daughters of Bethlehem, and say to her
| nelghbors, 'Cali me not Naomi, but call me
Mara. for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly
with me. went out full aud the Lord hath
Drought me home again empty" We come to
lnlngle our tears with those of the mother,
widow and children OF our dead president,
| James A. Garfield. and to receive at the hands
Of the Almighty some of the lessons He would
| teach It's by this awful af1Iction which lie has
permitted to come upon us as a nation. "Oh,
Lofu' we Know that the way of man is not IN
himself; 1t is not in man that walketh to direct
his steps, 1--WE come to bury Cnsar not to
praise him." In the presence Of death, in the
| presence of the mortal remains of HIM who oc-
cnpied the highest Official position ever vet OBJ
tained by man-the chosen president OF fifty
million enlightened christian freemen, we call
| 10 mind that sublime truth so eloquently uttered
| ny the gentle Massillon at the bier of the grand
monarch o France, Louis XIV.-"GOd alone is
great. Forty years ago the father of an hum
Ole iahiiy was called to rest leaving TO the care
oil faithful mother four Ghildren-thc fruits of
| d happy union, the youngest of whom was
| james A. Garfield, only eighteen months old l..
without fame, without fortune, this mother,
relying upon tho husband OF the widow and the
ather Of the fatherless, devoted her life to the
task OF rearing these children. She saw this child
| grow Into the bare footed boy; She watched him
| with u mother's love us he tOiled In humble
station; she cheere'l him and sustained him in
| lsrpr ,,,ru nj of lua pI