The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-09-28


4 pathy that has flowed and still flows from al
kother lands as well as our own towards the
*bereaved family-for the practical expression
fof kindred sorrow from the widowed Queen o.
n England and the many millions of her sub
Elects, and from all in every condition of life,
Throughout the world who have testified their
$respect for our fallen chieftain, and theiI
fsympathy with his afflicted household. Above
&all we thank and praise thee for tnat good
4hope through grace which from early life
Sustained him in the discharge Of
: duty, in the endurance of trial, in the
resistance of temptation during his brief but
<eventful ife-which deprived death of its
Z sting, robbed the grave of its victory and
Furnished the foretaste of the glory that has
}now been revealed to him while he rests from
This labors, while his works do follow him
Z May we and all who in like manner mourn the
3loss of this great and good man, be followers
Sof him, who now through faith and patience
thus inherits the promises. May his official
successor be guided by divine wisdom and
goodness in the choice of his future council
J alors. And may his administration be such in
3all respects as shall under thy hand and watch
3ful Providence conduce to the welfare of the
3nation-to the perpetuation of universal. peace
Ito the propagation of the everlasting gospe.
3and the salvation of the human race.
The Weber club, under the leadership Of
John Morgan, gave beautiful chant Thy
Twill be done''
Mayor Senter then introduced
BISHOP HEALY.
Your Honor and Fellow Citizens,-The
5sun has this day risen upon nation in
2mourning-in his course OF this day he has
looked down upon successive cities, towns
3and hamlets, and everywhere shone upon the
Ssigns of national sorrow. And in this city
gand hall the passing stranger would recognize
THAT We were bowed down, humbled under a
3great calamity.
1t is not simply that we have lost an illus
atrious citizen, whose early career had been so
3truly American in its struggles and its
striumphs; not simply that we have lost a
statesman dear to friends, respected by politi-
zeal opponents, and from whom great things
3were expected; nor even to demand, what the
State of Maine does not inhict, the prompt
3and rightful punishment of the murderer; +; but
THAT in our country so justly proud of its
1liberal Institutions and traditions, the chief
Il magistrate, the honored President has per-
2ished by the hand of an ignoble assassin.
While we were pitying nations that live
3under other forms of government, and perhaps
4hearing with indifference of attempts made
3upon the lives of their rulers, for the second
ztime in twenty years our own President has
Ebeen stricken down; for second time our
flair fame is dishonored, our boast of national
Sorder and individual security has proved to
5be an illusion. We meet to-day under q
7 3grievous humiliation, and yet, thank God
7not without well founded hopes.
AS the thunderstorm leaves behind it {
4purified atmosphere; as certain outburstine
diseases leave the physical constitution purgeo
aof noxious humors and filter for new life
8so do political and moral catastrophes fire.
squently contribute to the publication and
future strength of body polite.
The struggle against secession was great
calamity, and yet it purified our political
atmosphere. 1t effaced forever, and as an
Incidental effect, the foul blot of slavery; and
moreover, it made us alive to the weak places
bin our national fortress and moulded us more
than ever into one people, having not only one
flag but also one polity and one heart.
And even here to-day, in presence of a
8national calamity l hope to see a great and
beneficial result, and that result will be q
5return to the principles which underle all
authority, return to the words of the old in
5spired Book, whose name is often on our lips,
] but whose teachings are too often forgotten,
II may be thought old fashioned when | say
THAT all power of one man over another is from
sGod; that parental, municipal, national
5authority springs from the same source; and
sthat to me,-to those who are with me in
3faith-the ruler, by whatever name he may be
scailed, whether king or prince or president, is
}the representative of Gods authority; and
lwhoeyer lifts hand against him. Lifts his
IA nation but against the Lords anointed; for
lit is written: 'Who shall put forth his hand
against the Lords anointed and be guiltlesss n
The people by constitution and laws may
determine who are to be the depositaries of
power; but it is from God that power is
|given. and this was the old New England
doctrine and practice, before the wild theoriesl
!of pretended philosophers entered amongst u.s.
Your honor must remember with what rev.
'erence and obedience we were taught in our
youth to speak of the law, and with what
awe we looked upon the representatives of
|world. In those days simple constable
|would have marched unresisted through any
1crowd in the execution of his duty.
May venture to hope that the event which
1--WE now deplore will have the wholesome ef-
feet of "turning the heart of the children to the
fathers" of increasing our respect and obedi-
3ence to those who bear lawful sway; Of max
ing US ready to uphold those in authority by.
Jour prompt and earnest concurrence. There
fore let us take courage; for if by his short
|and memorable administration, if by his tragic
death, the lamented President should arouse
Jour hearts and minds to these great truths, he
would not have lived in vain; and his death,
sad as it has been would be a sacrifice fraught
with blessings to the country he loved and
served so well.
venture to hope also for another good re-
ssult, that in view of the dangerous channel
Through which the ship of state has passed
$50 quietly and promptly, the sons of Maine,
as they are to rely upon the skill
sof the pilot, may nevertheless recognize the
guiding Power from on high; and reverting
ito their early teachings, may say from their
shearts, "God save our country
HON. C. W. GODDARD.
Nothing that we may say here can add to
sthe fame of him who, by the might of an ex-
salted purpose and the inspiration of free insti-
buttons, rose from poverty and obscurity to the
sropmost pinnacle of earthly honor, and became
sthe most conspicuous parsonage in the world
iThe record of his faithful public service, mill
9tary and civil, needs not to be recounted; II
scovers twenty years and adorns many an
seventful page of the nations history.
The assassin's bullet impaired a crowning
4glory to his noble career by revealing cheer
Sful courage, an heroic endurance and Christian
unsurpassed by patriot, philoso-
spher or martyr.
Though falling prematurely, at the zenith OF
shls renown, at the noon of his greatness, he
zhad fought a good fight, he had finished his
scourse, for he is
- freedoms now, and fames's,
One of the few tn immortal names
That were not born to die.
In the language of the Roman orator, "he
Elived long enough for himself, or for glory
snot long enough, alas! for us and for the
country" We mourn the nations irreparable
sloss, we sympathize with the grief of his
safflcted family, and we execrate
The deep damnation of his taking off.
4 While he has gone, we trust, to his reward
land his body is passing to the repose of tae
stomb amid the tears of fifty millions of his
Scountrymen and the regrets of mankind, may
1--we not profit by the lessons which the sol
2emn occasion is fitted to impresss
During the first seventy years of our ma
Stion's constitutional existence, we had almost
persuaded ourselves of our immunity from the
fperils which had assailed the monarchies Of
Europe. But the experience of the last two
decades has proved that a republican form of
government, absolute freedom Of speech and
zof the press, and unexampled national pros
Iperity, were powerless to avert civil war, dis
Eputed succession and repeated assassination,
4 Not by exemption from trials, but by the ca
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