The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-07-30
sxyvDoS LETTER.
Prom our Regular Correspondent.
I1oxBos, ESGLASD, July Il, 1881

AtfHatttt, EsN4HA4HD- july L. 1851
Editor Lake Charles Echo:
Great anxiety, though not unmixed
with hope, continues 10 be the feeling
universally experienced in this country,
as well as throughout the civilized
world, at the latest news respecting
! the condition of the sore-wounded
American president.
Her Majesty, the Queen, was among
the very first 10 express her heartfelt
sense of .shorror and deep sympathy
at this awful crime" and from every
capitsl Of Europe kilograms bearing
similar messages have been dispatched
to the sorrowers by that bedside al
Washington. The British Parliament
always representative of any pro-
fonnd emotion which stirs popular
sentiment IN this eountry-gave utter
ance to the national SORROW last night
IT, both chambers, and the English
people will cordially echo Lord Gran
ville's statement that public sympathy
increases every hour in intensity with
the President and his family. and the
people of the United States" The
Prime Minister had little to tell the
House of Commons last night as 10
the condition of General Garfield, and
that little was of a somewhat unfavor-
able character; bnt in letter which
the Premier had addressed to the Hon.
James Russell Lowell. the American
Minister, occurs sentence which will
at once commit itself to public feel
ing in England as being simple and
elogeent statement of an undoubted
truth. ''TlIc heart of this country"
so writes Mr. Gladstone, evil be deep
~ moved with sympathy for Mrs.
Garfield"
Continued opinion on this deeply
painful event has been stirred almost
as profoundly as in the United King
dom itself 1t was only natural that |
from all the capitals of Europe tele-
grams of coincidence and sympathy |
should at once be despatched, but the |
ontspoken and spontaneous sorrow of |
the foreign press and public is graft
flying feature. Abroad it is pointed |
ont that the act Of Guiteau is not, in |
all probability, the outcome of poll |
teal conspiracy. but the personal fury |
of a maniac. The result, Of course,
TO the distinguished victim is equally
disastrous, but at the same time it is a |
relief-as foreign Journals express it
that no deeP-seated organization for
the assassination of the great of this |
earth is at the bottom of the detesta-
bic crime which has just been com
mitted. European opinion is always
peculiarly sensitive at any iidings |
which remind it of the awful regieidal /
events that have taken place on this
side of the Atlantic. That an American
president should be shot at--cllicf of I
the nation and the country to which
al the discontinued and poverty
stricken in Europe turn longing ewes
IS an event which brings home to Euro
Deans the real solidarity existing
fnong peoples under whatever form
Of government they carry on their daily
existence. Within living memory the
of Germany. of Austria. of !.
Russia. of France, of Italy, of Spain,
laye all been sought hy the weapon of
he assassin: two, at least, of these
rarely escaping with their lives, albeit
erribly wounded, while the most pow
'rful potentate in Europe actually fell
'nly few months ago, by means of
he bomb hurled at him hy a Nihilist
anatic With such rceollections, for
igners may well feel sympathetic
motions when they hear of the last
tenn in the miserable catalogue of at
cmpts TO murder rulers OF States. But
D England the sentiment of horror
J deeper still. For the next few hours,
nd it may be days, everyone will be
nxiously awaiting further and it is
D be hoped, favorablc-news from the
Ick mans chamber at Washington.
bulletins, alternating between hope
nd fear, will be scanned by eager
yes, and the slightest symptoms of 4
stunning health and strength will be
'elcomed almost as joyonsly in the ,
lother country as in New York itself 1