The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-22
EAST DOWN BUT NOT DE
STROYED

Watch which the nation has kept at the
bedside of is sick Executive through.
eleven weeks OF agonizing suspense is
over; the measure of suffering, which,
bv the dispens ,tion of an inscrutable
Providence IL was given The President
10 endure, has been fnlfilled, aud the
brsvc soul which shrank not even in the
dread presence Of the King Of Tcrrors
has escaped frnal The house Of IFS earthly
tqbcrnaclc aud mounted upward 10
taste the joys OF an eternal estate,
whose glories eye hath not seen norear
heard. and the fiillness Of which it hath
NJ; entered into the heart Of man 10
conceiyr.
The President is dead! These are the
words. which, passed IRON lip to lip
have brought sadness To every home IL
The land and bowed fhe nation in thu
presence of a great sorrow. The anguish
= which this intelligence brings 10 every
loyal heart is bitter to be borne, but ye
1 IT is not so appalling as the dumb terror
which possessed .he country ON the fatal
day when the dreadful announcement
dashed across the wires that the Chic
Executive had been stricken down n
the full zenith Of his regal powers, by the
hand o: an assassin. The weary days
and weeks elapsing since the memorable
morning of the second day of July
, 1891, have not been devoid
of blessing 10 this people amid all their
! bitterness and bane. When the i'm
pending calamity OF the Presidents
. death first over-shadowed this land, mems
, hearts failed them for fear of those
things which seemed to he coming upon
? them, and which, for Il time, threatened
: 10 precipilatr upon the country issues
/ which appeared 10 involve the defenscs
of the government aud the perpetuiiy of
our Republican institutions. But as the
nation recovered from the first great
shock which paralyzed its heart when
the bullet of Guiteau was sent on its
swift and deadly mission, the equipoise|
Of the great American people
began TO assert itself, and theI
manner in which the country has borne
Itself in u crisi, which would have in
VOWED in political chaos any government
less securely grounded ihsn the young
republic whose corner stone is the im
pcrishablc principle Of popular liberty
yindica,es ~ nothing else could have
done, the grand experiment If scli-gov
crnmcnt. aud has demonstrated TO the
world the power Of Il free and cnlight1
cned nation 10 possess itself in patience
in the mids, %! the iiercest trials.
The pages of history afford no parallel
Ia the wonderful drama which has been
enacted in America during the
weeks. which have covered the
period Il the stricken Presidents
suffering. Morally, the states compOs1
ing the Republic have been standing for
four score days about the bedside of
their wounded chief, and in the presence
of his matches patience and sublime
heroism they forgot their historic an.
gers and sectional quarrels, every mar.
row consideration being swallowed up
in The absorbing desire for the restora
tion 10 health OF one so richly endowed
for the accomplishment of the mission
10 which the people had called him.
That the prayers which have unceas
ingly assembled to heaven for the preser
walton of the Presidents life have moi
been answered, is one or those mysteri
Gus providcnccs which We may moi
faihom. 1t Is not for man 10 ques
ton God Why this be
loved servant of the people, with such
rich faculties OF head and heart, will
such generous motives and seasoned
powers to honor himself and his confidinl
countrymen, should have been permitted
TO mount To his commanding station
simply 10 die, like Moses, in full view
of the inviting future 10 which he seem
cd commissioned To conduct them, may
moi be revealed 10 the generation of mel
which lives to-day But in the midst o
the great and universal griet which ha
overwhelmed tho couutry we may cher
ish the filth thar the God of naIinns vii
not forget the people to whom He LA
been in the past a pillar of cloud b.
day to lead them by the way, au'
by night II pillar of fir
to give them light, even rs He went be
fore the children of Isreal of old, whel
they iourneyed in the wilderness. Gar
field, lying upon his bed of languishinl
and pain awakened sense of American
fellowship which even the consumma
ton OF the grand policy forcshadowet
in the achievements of his brief admins
traiion could not have comprised
Garfield dead may consummate wha
Garfield living could not have done
To harmonic the discOrdant clement
which existed in the country when h
was called to the executive char was nj
especial aim on his part when he as
sumed the duties Of the Presidency, ant
it may I've that heaven has sanctioned tn
aim aud permitted the only method 70
its achievement.
Certain II is that the costly lesso
which has shamed the people out o
bigotry and partisSnship has made ther
hearty coadiutOrs, and has drawn togetI
cr in one common bond of sympath,
and SORROW the chastened millions VIII
mourn today the death Of their bellows
President.
The President is dead The grea
hearted, kindly, loving man. who's
warm and genial nature had made fift
millions Of people his personal friends
has fallen victim to the shot OF al
assassin. The life which seemed so full
OF promise for the land has gone Out
The golden fruition Of plans and puI