New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-31
GARFIELD'S GREATNESS.
SENATOR HoAR ON THE DEAD PRESIDENT

MAN AND MARTYR.
WORCESTER, Mass, Dec. Ex-senator George
+. Hoar tonight delivered a eulogy the late Prcsi
dent Garfield, by invitation before the City Council in
Mechanics Hall, which filed to overlooking.
Mayor Kelley presided, and among those the plat
form were Governor Long; Chief Justice Gray and
Justice Devens OF the Supreme Court Judge Nelson Of
the United States Court; Justice KnOwlton of the Su-
perior Court and many prominent citizens There
preliminary exercises, Mayor Kelley, who made his
first appearance since his recent serious Illness simply
introducing Senator HOar, who spoke as follows
l should indulge myself in a strange deIuson IL
hoped say anything OF President Garfield which is not
already well known to his countrymen to add further
honor TO name to which the judgment NJ the world,
with marvellous unaninity, has already assigned its
place. The public and love have found utter
ance II not adequate yet such speech, and silence,
and funeral rite and stately procession and prayers and
tears could give the Goth day of September the day
OF the funeral, feeling stirred mankind as
never before in history. That mysterious law by which,
in great audience, every emotion is multiplied in each
heart by sympathy with every other, laid is spell on
universal humanity. At tho touch which makes
| the whole world Bin, all barriers of rank,
party, State. Nation disappeared Dis
Ohio, the State of his birth and of his burial New
England, from whose ons came the sturdy race from
which he descended; whose college gave him bis cdu-
cation, can claim no preeminence in sorrow. o.
! the soldier of the Union. over lsherumEs nut ana
iT3ntieTsmans cabin Is spread gloom because tho
dead and palace and castle are IN tears As thG humble
Campbcte disciple is borne 10 his long home the music
ancient synasogucs On the colin Of the canal boy
queen lays her wreath As the bier lifted word comes
| earth are rising and bowling their hes 3.
IGc1 many eme ryn many no h6d and
sudden emotion, gathering and breaking IKE wave IL
! ready perfectl1 known and familiar II there be any
persons who fear that religious faith that science
has shaken hold of the moral law upon the minds OF
let them take comfort in asking themselves any
base az ignODe passion could so have moved mankind
Modern Science has called INTO fe those lnghy SER
wants the and telegraph who have created nerve
which joins together all human hearts and pulses sin
ultaneousy over the globe 10 "l GonqucIor 70
tyrant what selfish ambition, 10 what mere intellect
ual greatness would not have re fused response Inc
powcrn the universe that makes evil and the power
In the universe that makes for rGhicousnesS measure
single human life is stricken down. and throb OF
| Divine love thrills planet. go
and adventurous spirits who were Its early settlers; inc
nonwealths are builded The history Of the settlement
Massachusetts. of Central New York and OF ONO, Is
the history OF the Garfield They were TO- borrow
fehcous phrase hungry for the horizon" They were
natural 1rontiersmcn OF the seven generations born IN
America, including the President, not one 9neuM a9
| born in other than frontiersmans dweLmg.
Two OF them iatheI ana SON. caMe over wa" III, P
in 1880 Each OF the six generhlos " no IN MiS
sachusetts has left honorable record sun preserved
Some were nghters in the Indian II is not IN IN
dian wars Fisher Ames well says, that heroes are
breaking OF the Revolution the male representatives
of the family were two young brothers one, whose
name descended the President In arms at Con-
cord Bridge surprise April 10 The other, the Pres
idents grea-grahdfather dwelling thirty miles on,
his way to the scene OF action before noon
Wnen the Constitution, rejected by Massachusetts IA
his fellow citizens of the little town OF Westminster
voted unanimously for the rejection and put on record
their " II is our opinion that no Consutuuoh
whatever ought to be established TIL previously thereto
bill OF rights be set forth and the constitution De
framed therefrom. that the lowest capacity may be
Hbe determine his natural nights, and Judge OF !he
equitabeness OF the constitution thereby AS to the
Constitution itself the following appears to us eNoel
tOnable, viz the fifth article, excepting negroes iu
prves portion of the human OF their natural rights
on of their color, which, in our opinion, no
ought to be expunged from the Constitution No reiis
intolerance descended In the CARRIED race but Ve
creed OF this Westminster cttecsn they seem never 10
Wben he war was over the same ancestor took his
Young family and penetrated the forest again lie cs
ablisled ms home in Otsego County, in Central New
York at the period aud amid the scenes made familiar
by Cooper in his delightful tale, The Pioneers" Again
the generations moved Westward I'm the march OF civil
GARFIELD was born in o humble Ohio cabin where he
left fatheress in his infancy In new seltlenent the
To say father who had himself been left an or
phan infant, left his son athcross IN IN
fancy, is 10 say that the family was reduced 10 e1ees'
| poverty.
| THE STRENGTH AND SECURITY OF AMERICAN STATES.
have given this narrative as the story Of mean
or ignobe lineage. Such men, whether OF Puritan, or
| Huguenot, or Cavalier stock, have ever been
| the strength and the security Of American States
From such homes came Webster and Clay, and Lincoln
and Jackson II Is o! Doors that has struck its
axes into the forests OF this continent These men knew
how 10 build tn emseves log houses in the wilderness.
They were more sLllful still to build constitutions and
statutes Slow, cautious, conservative sluggish, un-
| ready I'm ordinary life, their brains quick and
sure their rifles flash when great controversies mat
great interests that brook no delay are Of STAKE ana
battles that admit no INDIGESTION arc TO De fought
/ not anticipate these alert farmers. On The morn
ing Snn When Washington Was to be defended
/ IN 1861. the scholar or the lawyer. or the man
cOuntingfoom. and found ms company Of yeoinen walt
| ing for him. They over greatest in Adversely,
would not eryaue the material Of which other Re
pnlcs have been built The polished marbles Of Greece
And Itay have their own grace. But art
tain no more exquisite beauty than the color which this
split unhcwn granite takes from the tempest irwin
stands There was never race OF men on earth more
capable seeing clearly, of raspng, and OF holding
fast great truths and great principles which are per
manent sure ana SAFE IOr ihe government te Sonuuc'
OF uie alike III private and public concerns II there be-
or ever shall be in this country, Demos, hcBlc,
ght-mndcd, easily moved BIND, preludlced' incapable
! Of permanent adherence 10 what Is great or
what is true whether IL come IRON the encWinacy OF
wealth, or the skepclsln o. 5icky nhu sciS' ueI
poverty ana Ignorance Of great cities II Will Ind
itself pGwcrsss in t' iron So g@ s,pc voupc Garfield in
hpitad nS The unibeTs side The GmaIitIcs of the
| Hugucnots, those gentle, but not less brave or
LEFT t6eir beloved and beautiful France whose
memory will be kept green so long as Maine cher
slcs BOwdOin College, Massachusetts FGncul Han,
or NewYOrk the antique virtue OF John jay, or south
Carolina her revolutionary hstory-who gave lustrc
and glory to every place gnd thing they t2Icnoa Lnf
desnod to three, Te gg Te eso6r Without ehr
of whom nc would not have become fitted
for his distinguished These teachers were wise
Christian mother, poverty and the venerable college
president VINO lived to watch his pupil through nc
whole his varied life to witness hiA Inauguration amid
such high hypoa, and 10 lament his death.
To 10 nObler natTon did ever Roman hero trace LIS
origin Few Of the traditions of bis Puritan ancestry
could down to the young orphan. IL u said
there were things vita which his mother was spe-
ciay famiaT-the Bible and the rude ballads OF the war
of lsl2 The child learned the Bible AT his mothers
knee and the love OF country from his cradle hymns
I cannot, within the limits assigned TO me, re-
count every CIRCUMSTANCE OF special preparation winch
fitted Young giant for the great and various parts lie
was play in the drama OF our Republican life. IL
would be hut to repeat story whose patn0s and rO-
nance all known by heart by Ms cOuntrymcn: the
childhood IN the cabin the struggles with want, almost
with famine the brother proudly bringing up his first
dollar buy shoes for the te bare feet; tho labor IN
IL Il