Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-21
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
IN MEMORIAM.
RESPECT FOR THE DEAD.

Local Tributes to tho Late President.
On our first page will be found full &C.
count of the citizens meeting in the court
house last evening.
At the largely attended meeting of the
Grand Army Of the Republic yesterday
afternoon, Senior Vice Commander Edw.
Bookmyer in the chair, Comrades A. C.
Reinoehl, John Black, jr., VIM. D. Stauf-
fer, Marriott B,Osius and H. r. Breneman
were appointed at committee to draft resO-
lutions and reported the following, which
were adopted :
"The members of George II. Thomas
Post, No. 81, assembled to give express
ion to their feelings at the death of their
honored and beloved comrade, James A.
Garfield, late president of the United
States, hereby present their testimonial of
respect to his revered memory.
In James A. Garfield We recognize the
rare type of a man, 4 soldier, a Christian,
and president. AS man he possessed
tho qualities of purity, honesty, energy
and integrity, which, like the polar star,
will shine for ages on the path of every
poor and Fl i;endlcss American boy, strug-
Cling up from the shadows of a dark pres
ent to the hopes of a bright future.
GAS 4 soldier he was type of the self
sacrificing and conscientious citizen who
forgot private interest in the peril to his
flag.
GAS q Christian he ennobled manhood
which was model for the nation. As a
husband his boundless love and devotion
to wife whose worth was beyond rubies,
and as a father his affection and sympathy
for children worthy of a noble sire, will
make tho home Of the American citizen
hereafter moro sacred and widespread in
its influence.
Gas president he had entered on an
administration full Of promise for the
future prosperity and peace of the whole
country, and in the courageous exercise of
his prerogatives as chief executive, and in
tho mild, patient and yet firm manner in
which he met every question with which he
was confronted, he showed to the country
that he was indeed worthy to be called
president, and to him ins.inctively the
whole people turned with hope and conf
dence.
"To his wife so full of matchlcss love, of
tireless devotion in all the bloody hours
that followed the fiendish act of tho brutal
spokesman, SO great in tho heroism of a
Christian woman, and. in tho rare patience
and dignity that made her worthy to be 4
presidents wife, to the fatherless children,
We tender the sympathy OF comrades of
Garfield.
"To President Arthur, called by the in-
scrutable providence of God to succeed the
choice of the people, We extend the good
wishes and tender the cordial support of
citizen-soldiers, in the belief that he will
take up the great work so we'll begun by
the grand leader OF the people, and by a
wise and patriotic administration, secure
to the whole country the blessing of pure
government. May he, and all of us, heed
we'll the lesson of the hour.''
Brief and fitting addresses were made
by William Roehm, Judge D. W. Patter-
son, E. X. Martin, esq, M. Brosius, esq.,,
Capt. w. D. Stauffer and Major A. G.
Reinoehl.
The proceedings were solemn and i'm
pressive, and the hall was ordered to be
draped in mourning.