The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-09-29
MCCRNERS IN MINNESOTA.

Reports from all quarters of Minnesota show
the general grief OF the people, and contain
descriptions of the manner OF observing the
1uueral day of CART eld. The most imposing
ceremonies were 10 st. Paul, under tho
auspices of Damascus commapdery Of Masons
and of the Blue lodges. At least
10000 people were present, including
the most distiuguis:'ed. of the state, governor,
corps Of officers, and distinguished fore:g ners.
The focus Of attraction in the wayof decoration
was mammoth arch erected iy the Knigh's,
across Third street, where it debouches INFO
Bridge Square
The procession contained nearly 5000,
composed Of Masons, military, old soldiers and
all the civic societies.
GOV. DAVIS ADDRESS.
A nation mourns to-day people goes with
slow aud measured steps through streets made SOM
bre with the trappiugs Of woe under funeral arches
to the measures of disconso.ate music wains its
farewell lamentations, to bury and to praise
the rufus of til noblcst man
That ever lived in the tide of times"
The world Is darken-d to us. The designs OF
providence move to their appointed ends through
CARS tne .:s,n OF iru,tags from such desoa:ion
as that which this ecl Sc has caused. We some
how feel as if our very institutions are tainted by
completely with this monsrous crime, and are &C.
cessores to it, and that the whole responsibility
cannot be houn ed ~ the nature of the vulga,
land It is as if ancient Fate, working to its
ends through the agencies of innocence aud guilt
alike, had fulfilled remorseess destiny and s1nit-
len down the dynasty OF free government while,
IKE the chorus of some classic tragedy, a people
chants III" words Of comfort!eSs mourning Al are
hre. Tho iaborer. the scholar, to whom no like
catastrophe is told by history: the statesman, sad
lenlng over the fact that within twenty years two
presidents have been murdered. the business man.
the woman aud the little child, whle-eyed with Won
der ana with ercf-all are here TO mourn.
The sermon. the eulogy, the dirge, the threnody
vii! end, and the dead president will pass into his
tory. with all his human faults atoned for by his
History falsely he. of
mAn through the lit OF such DEATH for there is
40 perspecivo 50 distor'ing. 1t is probable that
scenic light, and 1t is we perhaps, for the force of
Sa:nple that this should be 80. Death teaches no
5neg precepts than are taught by the lives and
1eath OF mo1. who, good anil pure, and dedicated
apparently to tie contamination Of a great career
are thus brought down untime!y. 1t was with
him: He had finished 40 career He has not fallen
me leader OF any disastrous political measure. He
bad been consr icuous, though not pre-eminent. IN
he press of pol tical leadership That he was ca
to 10 DO da that as
was fe.t for years that he had at no time put
forth all his strength. Upon all questions of states
thought. Upon the aeetEg questions of the hcnr,
those mere cxD:di-ncies of the moment, he
seldom heard to speak. He seemed to be man in
ance OF some great, ultimate duty which should
pass the daily tasks Of other men. however well per-
formed, and thus round out that crescent life to
orb of never fading light. But this was not to be-.
lie has been stayed in his Ali hope of src-
dread of failure is at an end and We are free
to cons'oer the example of What this MN might
have become From earliest life he assldu-
GUS student, and thus become next perhaps to the
younger Adams, TIE st var:ouSly instructed IN IN
the vide Of hi. studies r sst easse
had modelled his mind to antique simplicity ant
beauy OF proportion. No speaker OF English on
either side of the ocean was his superior in the
command Of its resources. Whatever was to be
known of the operation of those political forces OF
conservative or destruction which in ages work
nIlNN a onto 1,AG r.v-l1v
both diverse and m mute. He was eraced with the
adornments OF literature as well as armorrd in its
panopiy 1t was peculiar 10 this man that all he
received ,paudit in all He had been a laborer
o T1a MS hands :o,S;o college president; the
a vcat;on W., s0ass and n
perfected man. and now that all externals ha> be
taken away and the work has ended can
ealnco OF such m'nlood, 50 widely spread, so spa
realm Of history. The natural elements of the mua
were plainly dscernible through the pellucid sim
was clear. and his tendency to its performances was
moral gravitation. He doubtless had great am
hton' ~a1 IT was to noble ends It was the am
not after honors. R.ady to serve,
but not sclf-scrving, would be an ap-
padded statesman, too we'll known in our day, made
up OF newspaper concentrations. Nor any
faint he found in his of that dastaray self
promotion which wins its Infamous wav over the
destruction of other meu-;hat caitiff envy which,
spends Its malignant force in the despoiiment st
larger and better natures Ills logical pr. sell
dom consisted Of scholastic ability OF deduction.
but IN an instructive sense and exposition of the
true relation OF facts and situations to principles
They were constructive, selective and analosica'.
and the resu was that his conclusions 1nl the ways
by which 10 reached them argued for til enseives as
Lerfect piece of a:chtec'ur does
This cursory estimate of this scholar. sol lier and
statesmen would bs imperfect IL it talie to r-cog-
nize al endowment which he had and which i. rare
u possessed by men OF Affairs. He was endowed
with the luagl alive faculty to an extent une-
qualad by any American statesman. 1t was subtle,
far seeing aud brought into curreia i've relations
things most remote and diverse. The tributary
forces OF his scholarship therefore always at his
command and thu result was wealth OF lnstra-
tive pows,r, in Which he resemb!ed Edmund
which fall from his lips. upon ths tnmultu-
a~y convention at Chicago: But re nsmber it is
not tho blow. but the calm level of the sea from
watch all heights and depths are measured" Aud
thar convention. measuring its du." from that
aadard, chose tie man who doubtless REPRESENTED
bsss c'.,n :siysl Of peculiar Thought. Win his
spread over the nation. Prosperity opened all her
Rarners. il seemed rs Il years Of t!i.l wess past
en- -.