Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-28

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Let ms, then be up and doing,
| With a heart for every fate,
Still achieving, still pursuing.
Learn to labor and to wait"
T Next came the quartet " Rock OF
! Ages" sung by Mrs. Bender and Miss
Parkinson and Messrs. Mason and
Chesley, Miss Parkinson and Mr.
Mason rendering the solo part splen-
didly.
Col. A. c. Ellis was next introduced
and delivered the appended eulogy:
1t has been said by Pericles, the
greatest of Athenian orators, that happy
is their lot who have gained most
glorious death. Accordingly it was in
troduced into the laws of the Grecian
Republic that an Grafton should De de-
livered over those who are buried after
falling in battle.
| But what shall be said to-day of one
who has passed on to Immortality, who
has "journeyed to happier shore,
where danger, death and shame assault
no mere ?''
The Romans observed an aphorisn-
De mortuis nil aisi bOnun,-but the
kindly spirit and the philosophy which
prompted this custom, while it finds an
echo in the hearts of the whole people
need not be invoked to-day that we
may speak sincerely and truthfully.
The occasion of our assemblage to-day
is unusual, but not unparalleled. These
walls, and this stage, dedicated to mimic
tragedy, are to-day hung with the
embems and trappings of mourning for
the death of Garfield, the first citizen
of the Republic, President of the United
States, the chosen of a majority of our
felIow-citiZens to discharge the highest
trust in the gift of the people-a tragedy
of real life, startling in the incidents of
its cruel preparation, and bringing re-
suits which, while tender and touching
in their domestic phase, yet teach %
lesson to the prtri0t aud statesman of
the mutahlity of all human affairs, and
introduce drama, the conclusion Of
which we all hope may hrin" no meas
ure Of shame or misfortune - 0ur COM
mon country.
The curtain has horn rang down
upon the first sad -rrnc-thc first act
is closed The st,>!n and hi, victim
have been consigned to their respective
cne ,hiVoring Gnd coWardly
To the dungeons cell, Who-e only COM
panion is his conscience, whose prompt
ings bid him take counsel Of his morbid
fears Of unerring and swift retribution,
and whose promised fate is condemna-
ton and the Potter's field, followed by
the eXecratiOns of mankind, and with
the hope that in an immortality Of in
fanny he may "dwell full in the sight
of Paradise, bcholdng heaven and
feeling hell.
The other has been gathered to the
bosom of his fathers in the full fruition
of his hopes, in the midst of his useful
ness, in the meridian of his glory. He
took his fight from the summit Of the
highest pedestal to which the suffrages
Of his feIlow-countrymen could elevate
him, and but that "human aid and
human Soiace terminate at the grave"
he would gladly have been upward
borne on nations outsprcad hands,
y and with the blessings of millions
md the prayers Of millions been COM
nended to the Divine favor" We
know to-day that the tomb has closed
over James 4. Garfield, that he has
Deen fondly laid npon the bosom of his
native state, that he was followed
rom the seaside to the place OF his
chosen sepulture by sorrowing thou
sands, that his obsequies have been at
ended, not by the pomp and pride and
circumstance of glorious war. but 10y
he spontaneous outpouring of sympa-
hetic hearts, where the golden sheaf
md civic wreath, the p.owshare and
he pruning hook were rather the SYM
)ols of the callings of the cortege than
he implements of sounding war.
We to-day in the far West, in our
titles and hamlets, beneath the folds
If our draped and dropping flag, and in
he shadows of our mountains are
to pay our last tribute Of re
;pect to the memory of the departed
victim in this strange tragedy, and to
give some expression, feeble though it
Nc, to our sympathieS and our hopes.
We have intelligence that all over our