Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-03-06
The New President.

Monday afternoon President elect Garfield and family bid farewell to their friends and neighbers al Mentor and started for the national seat of government. Delegations from sur rounding towns and villages were present to bid the notable party God speed. 4 farewell address was made by Hon. A. L. Tankers, of Paines- vile, to which General Garfield re- sponded as follows:
 Fellow-citizens and neighbors Of Lake county: thank you for She cordial and kindly greeting and fare well. You have come from your homes, than which no happier are known in this cOuntry-from this beautiful lakeside, full of all that makes country life happy-to give me your blessing and farewell. You do not know how much 1 leave behind me of friendship and confidence and homelike happiness, but 1 know 1 am indebted 10 this whole people for its acts ot Kindness, of neighboriy friend ship, of political confidence in pubic support that few men have ever en- joyed at the hands of any people. You are part Of thls community of noJtheIn Ohio which for so many years has had no desire but the good of your country, no wish but the pro- motion of liberty and justice, have had no scheme but the building of all thatis worthy and true in our Republic. If l were to search all over the world 1 could not find better model of pol itical spirit, of aspirations for truth and right, than 1 have found in this community during the eighteen years Its people nave honored me with their confidence. 1 thank the citizens of this country for their kindness, and es. pecially my neighbors of Mentor, who have demanded so little of me and who have done so much to make my home refuge and joy. What awaits me 1 cannot speak of, but 1 carry 10 to the discharge of the duties that lie before me, tue problems and dangers l may meet, a sense of your confi- dence and your love, which will al- ways be answered by ny gratitude. Neighbors, friends, constituents, fare well. [Great applause.l
 The train moved of at one o'clock in the afternoon, amid three rousiug cheers for the new President. The party will stop at the Riggs House in Washington until the inaugural
 Parhaps no Executive has ever en- tered upon his dUucs under sueh favorable auspices as will President Garfield. An era ot unprecedented prosperity is daWniBg upon he whole country, and peace and plenty exists throughout the length and breadth of the land. The people are advancing from the dark shadows of political chaos into the glorious prog essjve- ness of republican rule and order, and the destructive elements of the recent unpleasantness are fast being laid aside for the regenerating influences | of right and justice.
 To-day our country stands upon a frmer basis of correct principles 1 than ever before in Its brief history. ! With the election of General Garfield ! to the most important position in the l gift of II aukind, all the great dangers l 10 our nauon's welfare have passeG ! away. The '' bloody chasm has l been bridged by a people who love l peace and labor for prosperity, and l the extended hand Of the toiler Of the ! North will meet the palm of the | Southern planter, and both will bend l the knee in renewed fealty to the glo- 1 rious stars and stripes.