Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1881-09-23
Death of the President.


President Garfield, has given a deeper
solemnity to the glsom, an additional
sadness to the sorrow, and keener polgn-
ancy to the grief, which has settled upon
the American people since the cruel act
of the mad assassin was made known, two
months and half ago. The shock which
of the miserable Guiteau, had been to
some extent counteracted by the hopes
which had been based upon the skill OF
the distinguished surgeons, and the eff
cacy of the numerous prayers which were
addressed to heavens high chancery in
behalf of the hunored sufferer These
hopes were increased by the calm and no
BILE fortitude with which the distinguished
patient bore his great sufferings, and the
confidence with which he relied upon his
recovery. But all tEese fold hopes ard
earnest prayers of a sorrewing people, the
eminent surgical and medical skill of the
ablest surgeons in the world, and the no.
BILE fortitude and marvellous vitality of a
brave and good man, were unayailing in
staying the terrible consequences of the
mad act of one depraved creature. After
seventy-nine days of intense suffering,
President Garfield died, the victim OF
base assassin. He was tha twentieth Pres
ident of the United States, and the second
who has died by the assassin's hand.
1t was well, perhaps, fer the affairs of
the country that the patients great vital
iiy resisted so long the assassin's foul
stroke, as it has prepared the minds of
the people for the political change which
it will involve. 1t has also served to give
the Vice President time to deliberate upon
the line of policy he will inaugurate. Mr.
Arthur's conduct, during the sad suspense
into which the country has been kept for
the two and a-half months, has been most
decorous and proper, and it is only to be
hoped that the same moderation and cir
cumspection will characterize his admin
istration.
One of the most impressive and charac-
teristic manifestations in connection with
the assassin's crime, was the spontaneous
and general expression of genuine sympa-
thy and sorrow which the sad event Great
ed throughout the Southern States of the
Union. This has operated in a wonder
tul degree to convince the more liberal
minded Of northern people of the falsity
and injustice of the cry of sectional strife
with which designing politicians endea-
vored to prosecute the last campaign =
This loyal condemnation of The outrage to
the Republics chosen executive, and sym
pathy for him in his affection, furnishes
conclusive proof that, though the South
is ''sol;d" in its. manly profession of its
inherited political creed, and its views Of
governmental policy, it is equally solid in
its loyalty and devotion to the Union Of
the Fathers.
Mr. Garfeld's life was forcible exem
plifcation of the sentiment conveyed by
the poet, that, "Honor and fame from no
condition rise" and will convey to the
mind of eur youth a sanitary lesson
When we watch the progress OF the ener
getic youth from servile occupation on
a canal, through TIE embarrassments Of
self procured education, the successive
l~,ners of college presidency, general
ship in the army, distinguished career
in Congress and a fair succession to the
Chief Magistray of the Republic, we can
but be profoundly impressed with the
great blessings of equal liberty secured to
all by our excellent free government.
The result of the autopsy, showing re
suits entirely at variance with tie unan-
imously accepted theories of the eminent
attending surgeons, goes to show the in
trinity of human skill and science, even
in the present enlightened age.