The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-09-30

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ment could there ever have been a Jackson
Clay, Lincoln or Garfield. Then, le
every young man, however poor and humble
in life, be encouraged; let them learn t,
labor and wait; let them determine to b.
governed by the one leading principle.
determination to do right; let them bint
upon their hearts in letters of living ligh
the lessons taught by the lives Of thes'
great men, with an abiding assurance tina
whatever abilities God has given them will
be recognized and rewarded in due time.
4 When the partvpof which Genl Garfield
was an honored member met in convention
last year in the city of Chicago, to select
candidate for president, it was generally
thought that Gen'l Grant or James G. Blain,
would receive the nomination. as it was
thought in 1860 that VIM. Fl. Seward woult
then be selected; but in the first instanc,
the choice fell upon Abraham Lincoln, ant
in the last James A. Garfield, and thus i,
would seem
''That there is q divinity that shapes our end.
Rough hew them how we will"
The choice fell npon these men in eacf
instance because they were from among the
people, and of the people: they were each
made president, (the highest position that
any man can occupy in the way of earthly
honors, in vindication of and to represent
the ideas embraced in the declaration of
independence, and they each fell the victim
of that malignant spirit of oppression, oi
rule or ruin-which, whether generated in
a nation, in u party, in a faction, or in a
man, is the moving cause which produced
the revolutionary war, the rebellion, and the
assassination of president Lincoln and presi.
dent Garfield: and such miserable reptiles
as Booth and Guitteau are born of the slime
| of these political cess-pools OF death.
| Assassination is at all times and under all
circumstances henious crime; but the
murder of the president takes on a darker
| hue than any that has ever been recorded in
| the history of criminal jurisprudence. There
| is no excuse no mitigation, no pa!liation of
| this great crime. 1t stands out on the page
of history prominent in its hideous deformi-
| ty, and devilish malignity.
While we mourn over the untinely death
of our president, we seek for consolation in
the thought that his noble example will live
| forever. for how little there is of the great
| and good can die. Washington died but his
spirit still pervades the whole republic, and
when the sons of his own native state were
led away after fallen Gods, his spirit was
ever present, demonstrating and pleading
with them until they returned to their al
leigance, and are to-day with us, gathered
around the tomb of our beloved president,
sincere mourners over his early grave.
t'Our brother is not dead but sleepeth, !"
and the wei come and the blessed now gaze
and bear the silent into rest.
Judge Kelsay then addressed the meeting
at some length but we were unable to report
him and have only few of his remarks
which we give below.
desire to say few words on this sad
occasion. Party spirit sleeps this day
fbro &bo1 o,,I Of
vast nation. Man, the lord of creation, is
the sport of every wind that blows and every
wave that flows. He is beset by ten thous-
ands of dangers, both seen and unseen, along
the short road of life. He is like the grass
of the field which grows up, is cut down and
withers before the sun is set; or like the
dew of the morning which sparkles in the
sunlight ON the flowers and is soon exhaled.
President Garfield but a few weeks since
was in the noon of his life and prosperity,
filing the first office in the gift of the Amer
lean people, and then and there, without the
slightest intimation was mortally wounded
by an assassin, and passed flom this life a
few days since.
His ascending spirit let fall the spotless
mantle of purity to gild with unfading
beauty that imperishable pillar of our coun-
trys fame which. stands like a towering
beacon on the coast of human destiny, ex-
hibiting to surrounding n1tions and empires
the chart of American liberty. We can see
a man better just after his sun is set in the
twilight as his day declines along the hills,
amidst the cross-h lights and shadows of that
hour, than at any other period, for there is
no envy or malice that reaches beyond the
grave. President Garfield has been added
growing constellation of presidential stars
which float below the horizon of time, and
like our natural sun after he has set, throws
his light down upon us by refractfon and re-
fecti0n. So will the light come to us and
our race through all succeeding ages.
He was assasinated not for the causes
which led to the assassination of Dion, the
tyrant of ancient Syracuse, or Julius Cesar,
who crushed out the Roman commonwealth
at Pharsalia, but for doing his duty, with
ability and learning superior to any other
chief executive of our union, save Jefferson
and John Quincy Adams. The death of
president Garfield will cause no change in
our system of government. We will have
no usurpers as in ancient times. and no quar-
rels here as there was in England a few
centuries ago between the red and white
roses. The people of the United States will
ever respect the '.jewell of liberty in the
family Of freedom" Therefore we can go
home and mingle our feelings of sadness with
feelings of safety and security.
(The addresses of these gentlemen are not
given in full for want of space)
Rev. Mr.. Moss, also delivered quite an
interesting discourse relating few personal
"reminiscences of the dead president and his
family. Mr.. M. was minister of the
Christian church and was for a long time
personally acquainted with President Car
field during his early life.
F NJ. johnson Esq, after a few appropri
ate Introductory remarks, read a beautiful
and touching extract from the address of
the late President delivered in congress on
the occasion of the death of President Lin
coin. After an anthem by the choir the SER
vices closed with prayer by Rev. j. R. N.
Bell A large number were in attendance
from different parts of the county and all
seemed to feel that they stood in the pres
ence of death and each to feel that the
Nations bereavement was their own personal
grief.
BIG LEAF.-W. B. Hamilton placed on
our table last Saturday leaf from rhubarb
plant IS feet in circumference, raisa.l by Mr.. I
H. in his garden in this city. We thought
this large pieplant but our friend ]. L. says
that there is plant of the same variety in
Uncle George Spencers garden in the lower
part of town that whole family have camp