Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-09-29

crowds gathered at the newspaper Offices and
hotels to hear the fullest particulars obtain
able.
SrAUNToN, Va, September 2O.--DeeE
gloom overspreads the city. Bells were tolleo
this morning and minute guns fired. Busi
ness il practically suspended. The Supreme
Court of Appeals now in session here has ad
journed for the day.
SAN Francisco, September 2O.-The citi
zens are this morning busily engaged in
draping residences and places of business in
mourning. United States Courts and offices
are closed. Meetings of various public bod
les are announced to take suitable action.
THE VIEWS OF THE PRESS.
LOUISVILLE, September 20.-Mr. Waiter.
son says in to-day's Courier. Journal: 1.-The
President is dead, and all nations responding
to that touch Of sympathy which makes
the whole world akin, stand uncovered in
the presence of the calamity, for tragedies,
ever so calamitous, are doubly so when they
spring from murder and attach themselves to
the head of the State, the symbol Of power, the
representative of the people and Of law. If
ever mortal stood in these relations to his
country and his time this man did so. 1t
was the universal sense that he did so which
brought around his bedside his fellow citizens
without distinction of political opinion, and
caused women who had never seen him to
pray for him, and little children who con-
ceived not the emergency nor the magnitude
of the contingencies hanging upon his life to
ask each day after his well.being as if he were
father i'll and dying in some far.off place"
ATLANTA, September 20.-Tbe Constitu-
tion this morning says "The death of James
A. Garfield is twofold calamity. The coun.
try loses the services of President possess
ing the rarest qualifications for the perfor.
nance of all the duties that lay before him,
and the South loses friend capable of thor.
oughly sympathizing with the difficulties of
the problems which are the legacies of the
war. To succeed in American politics one
must needs to be politician, and it is not
an enchanting business to the finer minds
engaged in it, and it is disgusting to all who
depend on their merit for success. To the
sensitiYe mind the road to the Presidency is
long and dirty. In pressing it Mr.. Garfield
had the refuge of scholarship. He was a
partisan in politics to the extent Of earnest
ness, but he never, like some of his represen.
tative Republican rivals, made partisanship
policy. Whatever policy the President may
have mapped out previous to the attempt Oh
his life, we believe that he would have risen
from his bed with his mind free from the
slightest trace or vestige of partisanship. He
could not have ignored the attitude of the
South. His genial and sympathetic nature
would have taken advantage of the events of
the past few months, and for the first time
in twenty odd years we would have had
President in the full enjoyment of the con-
6dence and esteem of the whole country"
AUGUSTA, September 20.-The Chronicle
and ConstitutionaHst says: "With anguish
we announce that the worst fears have been
confirmed and James A. Garfield, Presi-
dent of the United States, is dead. Strange
that the halls of brave foemen should have
in their flight spared him for such fate.
Sad indeed is it that such glorious being,
so useful, so powerful, so mani y, so excellent,
should become the victim of so vile reptile.
We bow to the dispensations of God, and ques-
ton them not. To Him we eleave the vindica-
tion and ends of justice. The heart of the
South bleeds for the stricken mother and wife
and children of the President"
SELMA, September 20.-The Selma Morn
ing Times says: "In these first hours of grief
the fact stands out in bold, glorious relief,
we are one.' The sacrifice is an awful one,
but God in his infinite goodness requires it,
and, this morning from the depth of their
grief stricken hearts all Americans can and
will thank God that there is no North, no
South, no East, no West, but bound together
in one common sorrow, binding it in its vast.
ness, We are one and indissoluble. Sectional
lines have been obliterated by Garfeld's blood,
and the red handed assassin has placed the
missing stone in the structure of our Union"
WILMINGTON, N. c., September 2O.-The
Star says: ave do not now propose to con-
slider the effect of the Presidents death upon
the future of the country. We must hope
that the successor will disappoint his enemies,
put to naught all evil forebodings and prove
himself man, country-lover, statesman
in the broadest sense, and President Of free,
united, and prosperous country"
BosroN, September 20.-The Herald in
separate editorial on Mr.. Arthur says: "By
the will of God, through the folly of
political convention and by the action Of
the people, Chester A. Arthur is Presi'
dent of the United States. As such he is en-.
titled to fair chance to be judged by what
he does; ; not by what he has done; by what
he proves himself to be, not by what people
have justly or unjustly judged him to be by
his past actions. The people are willing to
think well of him. He has himself chiefly to
blame for any Limitations upon their trust,
and he will be one of the blindest Of the
blind, those who will not see, if he fails to
seize the opportunity now offered him to place
himself at the head of the nation, in fact as
we'll as name"
THE LIVING PRESIDENT.
ARTHIJR TAKES THE OATH OF OFFICE.