Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-20

honor and commend him for the honesty
and sincerity of his convictions and his
eminent desire to discharge his public
trusts conscientiously, and, as he be-
lieved, for the best interests of the coun-
try He did not belong to the trucking,
time serving class of politicians. He was
an Abolitionist when the cause was I'M
8popular-when men were seeking politi-
Zeal preferment by trimming their sails to
! the breeze, he was straightforward and
sconsistent He never wavered in his
faith in the perpetuity of the government.
sWhen, after the assassination of Lincoln,
Che stood before a bowling mob in Wall
street, he largely quoted them by his
1 memorable utterance,
& "Thamk God the government at Washing.
ton still lives"
And now in this hour of national sor-
row, when strong men are bowed down
with grief, his words ring back with a
talismanic, reassuring peal, which recalls
! the fact that however great the national
and personal affection, the government
of the country is beyond the reach of the
assassin's deadly aim.
4 A great man has fallen Great in him
! self and his own mental attributes, but still
zgreater because he was the chosen head
sof the nation. He has fallen because he
was placed IN the commanding position
: he held and not because of any personal
luminosity cherished by the assassin. This,
: of itself, awakens special feeling of ten
sderness in the breast of every lover of
: his country. He was foully murdered
because he stood as the representative
man of all the people, and fifty millions
stand personally bereft by the great
5crime 1t is pitiable that one despicable
wretch has succeeded in producing such
an affection.
The aged mother who 80 proudly wit
messed the Inauguration ceremonies of
4her eminent son. the heroic wife and
mother, who has so faithfully watched
: oy the deathbed of her distinguished
s husband; the now fatherless children in
that stricken household, are bearing a
I burden of grief which no words
can assuage. But from every home
I in all this great country, a sympathy goes
zout for the stricken family which Ian
guage cannot express. Every home feels
: 1.-THE impress of this affection upon the
Presidents family, because it is fully
realized that this son, husband and father
: has been torn from his weeping and sor-
rowing relatives for no other offense than
that he was the national representative
of every Preside in the land. If it was
! possible to lift the great grief from the
Borrowing family of the late President,
millions would volunteer to bear the bur-
den. But in their silent grief world of
tender sympathy will insensibly mingle,
and the tears which flow at Elberon to-
6day will find trickling responses in Amer
lean homes from ocean to ocean.
Death under such circumstances oblit-
crates all political animosities and there
I is no break in the ranks of the national
smourners to-day. Political differences
are forgotten and we stand with bowed
heads in the presence of a national Ca
lamity.
I And in closing this imperfect personal
: tribute, there seems singular appropri-
ateness in adopting the lines dedicated to
the memory of another President, who
died at his post of duty while President
8Garfield was in his boyhood:
s'Follow now, as ye list! The first mournel
to-day
Is the nation-whose father is taken away
wife, children, and mother, may moan al
his knell-
He was clover and friend" to his country
as well
For the stars on our banner, grown sudden
ly dim,
Let us weep, in our darkness-but weep moi
for him
mot for him-who, departing, leaves millions
in tears
Not for him-whO has died full of honor
: and years!
mot for him-who assembled Fames ladder
so high
From the round at the topic has stepp'd to
the sky!"
EXTRA s ESSIuN OF THE Lh GISLA.
TERE.
! AS the GLOBE predicted, Gov. Pills