Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-09-28
MEETING AT ELIZABETHTON.

hEEIlNG AT ELIZABETHTON.
At a meeting of the citizens of Elizabeth
ton, Tenn, on Monday, the 26th day of
September, 1881, on motion Col. J. l. r.
Boyd was called to the chair, and explained
the object of the meeting in a few feeling
and appropriate remarks. r. A. Smith was
chosen secretary and committee of nine
were appointed to draft suitable resolutions,
who, after retiring for a short time, re-
ported the following, which was unani-
mously adopted:
Whereas, 1t has pleased Almighty God to
remove from among US our beloved Presi-
dent, Gen. James A. Garfield We recog-
nize in him an example worthy of all imita-
ton by the youth of our country. Born of
parents poor in worldly goods, humble and
lowly in social position, but honorable and
without reproach among their fellow men.
Living in district retired from the centers
of intellectual culture and prominent incen-
tives to an ambitious mind, farm work in
summer and the carpenters bench in
winter engaged the time devoted to the
stern purposes OF his life.
These purposes were based upon the
highest qualities which exercise and ennoble
the mead ana nearC OF uldn.
His first ambition now was to aid, main
tain and comfort widowed mother. This
done, he next thought of his God-giv fac
ulties, and he looked beyond all difficulties
to the requirement of an education and
degree of mental culture which would fit
him for any position that might be in the
future in store for an American boy.
Trusting in God always, and knowing
nothing but his duty to himself, his fellow
men and that country whose institutions in
vited him to his noble career, he attained
his highest aim. A tow-path driver on
canal did not detract from his consciousness
of moral worth, nor did it abate the settled
purpose of his mind to be man of his day
and generation. We must behold him OF
high culture, commanding the respect and
confidence of the people of the entire nation.
Rising daily in reputation and renown, he Is
called to the Chief Magistracy of the United
States His career here is known to all.
Charity, pacifcation, the hand of fellowship
extended to his people of every section,
grade and nationality, and g. stern justice III
the administration of public affairs marked
his every act and indicated his patriotic
resolves.
Olives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints in the sands of time"
Resolved, That we recognize in his
death the loss of a true and steadfast friend
of the institutions of our Government and
as earth has lost one of her brightest jewels,
Heaven has received shining angel
Resolved, That as Christian legislator,
soldier and statesman, he commands our
fullest admiration.
Resolved, That as American citizens we
abhor the crime of assassination as repug-
nant to the moral sense of~our people and
demand speedy trial and execution of the
assassin.
A. r. Toncray, C. A A Pearce, F. G.
Boyd, W. L. Johnson, John n. Seffey, M.
F. Barnes, John F. Burrow, Jas. L. Bur
row, John. w. Cameron, John Harris,
(colored.) Committee.
1t was ordered that copy of the pro-
ceedings of this meeting be furnished to
the Knoxville CHRONICLE and Tribune and
the Elizabethton Mountaineer, and that they
be requested to publish the same.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
JAMES I. r. BOYD, Chm.