The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-09-22
DEAD.

After long struggle with Death, the
president has finally suocumbed. Ever
since the first relapse men of Judgment
expected this fatal termination. Hope
was buoyed up considerably by the favor
able bulletins issued by the directions OF
DR.. Bliss, the most sanguine man of the
age. 1t was quite apparent that recovery
was impossible at Washington and it was
equally apparent that if improvement did
/ not follow Immediately after the removal
to Long Branch, all hope was gone. The
presidents anxiety to be removed to
Mentor was premonition that the end
| was near. In sickness man returns to
childhood, and the approach of Death
makes one long for home. The presi-
dents persistency in his demands to be
carried home had in it that simplicity,
that longing for pleasant associations
characteristic of the broken man.
He died about 10 o'clock on Monday
night OF this week. Blood poisoning,
exhaustion, and the slow sapping Of
strength by long sickness did the work.
/ Had he recovered from the wound his
lungs were so badly affected that life
could not be long for him.
| For almost three months the president
has been lowering between life and
death. Some times the film was almost
| in his eyes; at others it seemed as if his
splendid constitution and immense vital
ity would bring him out of the dark val
ley. Not until life was gone was hope
| abandoned. He had been so many times
on the verge of death and had so repeat
edIy succeeded in rallying that it seemed
as if his grasp on life was firm.
The public services of the dead presi-
dent are too fresh in the peoples mind
to require recapitulation now. He had
in him all the elements of greatness, was
inclined toward the right, generous,
| warm-hearted and honorable, lacking no
manly quality but moral courage. Gar
field could be one of the great men of the
age had he that quality of courage, which
| would enable him to act in accordance
| with his convictions. His impulses were
| good, his deliberate purposes were up
right and honorable, but subject to infu-
ences which diverted them from their
proper course. In intellectual endow-
ments he had no superiors in his age and
but few equals. Could he unite frmness
with honesty of purpose he would be the
! peer of Gladstone as a statesman. His
moral perceptions were clear but they
did not always direct his actions. His
purpose was changeable. With poetic
temperament, mind gifted by nature
and adorned by learning, Garfield had
all the requisites. if he had strength OF
will, to mako one of the grandest figures
in American history. With the genius
of Hamilton, the eloquence of Webste,
all that was needed was the iron will OF
Jackson to make him the model for the
historian and the pride of the nation
With the SPLENDID possibilities that were
in the man, his life must be regarded as
failure. What piece of work was this
man elbow noble in reasonl How in.
finite in faculties 70 And yet upon what
single act can he lay claim to statesman
ship. His death was sad and people
must mourn that SO much genius was
thus extinguished. His faults are now
forgotten. Let them rest with him il
the grave made honorable by the quail
ties he possessed rather than by the
deeds he has done. He ''threw pear
away" richer than all the honors ht
earned