Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-20
)URNAL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1881.

tween the sections The mischief makers and ir-
reconcilables on both sides are crippled II not
crushed, and an era Of national good feeling has
set In that we hope will never again be broken"
CHARLESTON NEWS AND COURIER: "There
could be no doubt that Guteaus dastardly act
would be heartily denounced in South Carolina,
indignation on account Of the exalted position
which General Garfield holds It could not have
been foreseen, however that the outburst Of sym
pathy and condemn alton would have been uni
versal in Its manifestation affection and tone and
national in spirit. South Carolina does more
than reprobate assassination. The people Of the
state, the whole people, resent the deed because
the victim is the president Of the United States,
the chief magistrate of our country, and because
the democracy Of South Carolina, In the few
months which have passed since his installation
have learned to think well Of him, and to have
confidence in his patriotic intentions. The pro-
cess Of reunion had gone on with rapidity which
few appreciated All the elements of cordial
friendship and Of national good will were there
1t needed only the threat Of common misfortune
to give shape and voice to the recreant but sturdy
love Of the republic"
NiOhSbUhd ilfhhlsDs NO president Since tnp
war has so gained on the good feeling Of the
southern people as President Garfield. While he
belongs to party that is not popular in the SOUTH
1t 10 admitted all hands that he is acting Justly
and fairly by this section, and is anxious to Sc
cure the commentator OF the southern people.
Laying all wretched party feeling aside in this
time OF national disaster, the southern people
hope and trust that his valuable life will be saved
The attempt to assassinate a president OF the
United States is horrible; the success of such an
attempt would cover our citizens with grief and
fill them with the gloomiest forebodings. How
times change, and men change with them? II,
six months ago, one had told the southern people
that by this time they would be praying and
hoping for the life OF James A. Garfield, they
would never have believed 1t. Now the first ex-
preston one hears greeting fellow-citizen is,
. I trust to God he may live No name is men,
toned, for all are thinking Of the patient martyr
in the White House. The southern heart is fred
no more; 1t is wrung with sympathy. 1t prays
that the president is stalwart enough to live"
GALVESTON NEWS "In all the sorrow and
mourning that have followed the attempted as
sassination Of the president, no expressions more
genuine, warm and heartfelt have been extended
than by the people Of the south. And yet they
had nothing to gain by the accession Of Mr.. Gar
field to the presidency, and nothing to hope from
his continued occupation Of the office. The sur
viving prejudices of the war were strong enough
to prevent the election of a president represent
ing the idea of the complete fellowship and the
ungrudged equality of the southern states. Yet,
despite this, the intelligence OF an attempt upon
ha nft ha bao a1r Na I'D
the wires before a universal cry of Indignation,
grief and horror goes up through the whole length
and breadth of the south, accompanied by sin
cere and touching words of sympathy and fervent
prayers for the recovery of the stricken president
The south in this way attests not alone her regard
for the man, but her fealty to the Union her
loyalty to constitutional government and consti-
tutional methods, her deep concern for the inter
ests Of order and stability and her detestation of
an act that at once aimed blow at these in
terests and furnished despots everywhere an ar
gument against free institutions"
NOTES AND INCIDENTS.
II the president lives a year and day, the
charge of murder cannot be brought against
Guiteau.
A KENTUCKY editor sends this message to the
secretary of state eve tender hope for the pres
ident; hemp for the assassin"
COLONEL ROCKWELL says the president has
only once spoken Of the assassin. lie merely
asked his name and what had become of him,
and then said Guiteau must have been crazy.
THE Providence Star voices growing public
sentiment when it says that the president will
grow more than quarter of million dollars
worth in the estimation Of the people il he de-
clines the Field fund.
THE president having expressed a desire to see
the newspapers, Rockwell said they were all be-
ing saved for him. GAN of them, Rockwell %
he asked. eyes" "Well, then, perhaps 1t
would not be best for me to get we'll"
THE friends of Mr. Edward W. Doherty, the
Marblehead man who chastised the scoundrel at
Washington who glored in the shooting Of the
president, have raised money with which to pur-
chase gold-headed ebony cane to be presented
to him.
THE following dispatch was sent to Mrs. Gar
field by Frances T.. Willard on behalf of the Ma
tiona Woman's Christian Temperance Union:
Our hearts and hopes. our prayers and tears,
Our faith triumphant DER our fears
Are all with thee, are all NTH thee.
DR. BLISS says the physicians have been ex-
tremey careful in making up the bulletins. Their
statements regarding the condition aud symptoms
have been carefully weighed, and instead of max
ing them rose-colored, have stated the case with
as nearly as possible precise accuracy
THURSDAY was generally observed in Arkansas
and Kentucky as a day of fasting and prayer for
the recovery Of General Garfield, having been set
a mai Inv (oyarnnra Churchill and nlank hur for
that purpose Religious services were held in all
the churches and all state offices were closed as
well as prominent business houses
GOVERNOR L. A. SHELDON of New Mexico was
sitting in his office at Santa Fe when he received
a dispatch saying that his old friend and COM
mander, the president, was shot. In few mo-
ments the general and Mrs Sheldon were on
railway train, and have travelled the two thou
sand miles to Washington without stopping.
SAYS Dr. woolsey of New Haven: "The people
just beginning to find out respecting President
Garfield's life and noble Christian character what
have known for a long time ! earnestly hope
and pray that he may recover | think there are
more people praying for the president to-day
than there ever were before in the history of our
country"
Mr.. HORTON, of the clerical force of the White
House, is preparing separate scrap book for the
newspaper accounts of the shooting OF the presi-
dent and his dangerous illness. The different
accounts are cut up and pasted in scrap book
The editorial remarks and comments are scis-
sored and put in alongside the teegraphc ac-
counts Accounts OF the public meetings held
are also preserved, The literature of this char
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the president some time to peruse after he is able
to read