Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-02

learning and ability carried him forward until he reached the highest of human ambition. This highway is open to every boy in our land, and to them we commend this noble example. As to James A. Garfield's moral attributes, there are none so bold in dishonesty of purpose as to question the uprightness ofhis character.
 His life is without stain-it stands forth as pure and as bright the noon- day sun. He lived and died man whose heart possessed all the clements of good ness. and his walk while living was through paths illumined by his own noble acts. James A. Garfield lived and died a Christian, full and faithful believer in the immortality of the human soul.
 In every position to which he was called in public life he was governed by his honest convictions of right, founded upon mature deliberation, and when his judgment was so formed he never swerved from the path of duty to court public applause or party reward
 He was never moved by popular prej- udice or passion. These were evils of the hour that found no place in his heart. In his private life, as we'll as in the walks of public service, he was gov erned by the same integrity: and now that he has forever passed from the scenes of this life, the universal voice of his country is, that James A. Garfield lived and died an honest man" the noblest work of God"
 No man in the nation had frmer hold upon the love of the American peo- pie.
 During his long and painful illness there came up from the north and from the south, from the east, from the west, from the very extremes of the Republic, ! the one and same hope and prayer: God spare unto this nation its beloved President" But alasl how vaIn are hu- man hopes. how uncertain are all human | eIpectatiOnsi
 Gods finger touched him and he oisd."
 Mir. Garfield, while he was still engag- l ed in the cause of education, at Hi ram Institute, united III marriage with | Miss Lucretia Rudolph, a well chosen bride, a wife worthy of such husband. | Gifted, noble, generous womanl fond and devoted to thy husbandi We sOr- row with thee in thy utter desolatiOn. May God comfort thee in this the day of
 thy great grief, and may he protect and comfort thee in this life, and bless and re- reward thee in the life to comel Oh, with what loving faith ndhOpe did she attend through the long days and nights, ex- | tending into weeks, by the bedside of | her suffering husbandi What patience, what suffering endurance, what mental anguish must have been hersl how her heart must have been torn, broken. and
 shattered when the last sad hour came
 when her all of this earth, her noble hus-
 band was taken from her, never, never
 more in this life to cast upon her the
 loving eye, never again to let fall upon her ears words of affection. Oh, what a
 scene was that Wife, children, by the
 bedside of dying husband and father
 and vet no word of comfort or counsel
 could fall from his cOid lips, fOI reason
 had departed its throne, and our beloved President, unconscious of human pres
 ence, unmindful of the approach of the
 messenger of death, passed quietly and
 calmly away.
 God protect those fatherlegs children
 and direct this nation to make them its
 wards, And this, all this the work of aI
 assassin-a miscreant whose life is as .
 feather compared to our loss. Why Inc
 should be thus taken-why he should
 have been so called from earth, in tho ripeness of manhood, in the fullness o
 vigor, hope aud promise, at the yerl
 time when his country most required his services, when his friends, his devot
 ed wife and loving children so greatly
 needed him, is one of the mysterious
 workings of Providence that mortal maI
 cannot understand. It is lefs to tn,
 future, the great Beyond to enlight
 en us.
 Fate steals along with silent tread.
 Found oftenest m what least we dread
 Browns in the storm with angry brow,
 But in the sunshine strikes the blow. This is a day of sorrow, of unmeasured
 immeasurable grief. The Republic Il clothed in habiliments of mourning every heart in the land beats tremulous ly with loving remembrance of the dead
 In this there is no division of public sen
 timent; the lamentation is universal-i is the outpouring of sad thoughts iron the hearts of 50M0,OO0 of people. To day, throughout our country, in ever. city, village, and home, the mOurnfu tolling of the death bell is heard Silent, noiseless millions, with uncOv 1; cred heads and stricken hearts, arr marching to the sad notes of the funera dirge.
 Noi no! All is not death that seem to die. James X. Garfield still lives Il the hearts of his cOuntrymen-the gOo' and great of his deeds survive him, an, ? these are now the heir-loOms of the Re
 public.
 He lives in glory and his speaking dus- 5 Has more of life than half 1t breathing moulds. Nol no, This is not death; for There is no death; what seems so is transition r | This life of mortal breath
 I Is but a suburb of the life elysian. ! Whose portal we call death.
 Oh, if it be true that when thes . bodies of ours shall dissOlve-when thi ! earthly matter shall return to dust, tn : spirit, the link which connects man t a the Author of his being, shall at one
 pass from this life to that which is etei | nal;-if it be true that the spirit cannC
 die, that 1t lives amid the realms Of peac f and love, whence it came, then, indeeC e our loss is his great gain; then, indeed
 James A. Garfield is not dead but no f lives in the presence of our country | first martyr-the great, the good, tn f immortal Lincoln.
 f Oh, if immortality could put on mol T tality-if the brain of the dead could ono f. again take unto itself life's activity f the tongue could be lOOsened-f ti {, dead could speak, there would come 5 us from the spirit land these lOvin s words of admonition, hope and promis' Q Ye men of the American Republic, st ' to it, and remember, your people are H P people-your nation His nation. See if it, and remember. Guard well your fir, .s institutions; the principles of your GO o CIT ment must be extended thrOEghOI d the world-human liberty must ever. "a where prevail. March onward and ul "a ward until every man ascend in the sea "a of his greatness until he shall reach tl .s proud position God designed him to O fl cuIy-a sovereign in himself T James A. Garfield, patriot, marty I loved on earth, glorified in heaven, a
 hail Farewell
 k Judge Smiths address was follow' $ by the hymn Shall We Gather at tl
 River" be the Tucson Quartette. aft m which the Chairman introduced Sen 1t Vicente Morales, Mexican Consul c. Tucson, who delivered an address in tl ,e Spanish language, of which the folio Y. ing Is translation:
 ~ ADDRESS OF HON VICENTE MORALES. le A sad event unites us together her
 The ball launched from the revolver is Guiteau on the 2d of July last has co h. sunmated a crime and a mournful de- ot on the night of the 18th of Septemb' [e Mir. James Abram Garfield was ld great statesman, a warrior, good hu IT. band and an excellent father. I ha le too much respect for the dead to attri m ute to them, as others do, qualiti ic which they did not possess in life. l a strict myself to the biographical sketc e. es of this illustious statesman whl " have appeared in the public press. } " Garfield was laborer. This Is the b