The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-07-08
PRESS COMMENTS.
THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES.

THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES.
PHILADELPHIA, July 2.-Thc Times
tomorrow morning will say: Had the
assassin's deed been done III a tempest
of revolution there might have been
something to plead in extenuation Of
the crime, but the anirnating purpose
and circumstances which prccipitatcd
it are, if possible, more terrible to con-
template than the murder itself. That
assassination should become the wca-
pom of az inilamed faction, and that
trembling political criminals should
murder the President Of the greatest
republic Of earth with q boast of the
crime mingling with the groaus Of the
| murdered ruler, make the bittercst cup
| ever presented to the lips of our free
people, and its consequences are be-
You'd the power of man to measure. II
| Que SO beloved and respected as James
A. Garfield can be murdered undcr the
very shadow of the capitol, when
peace and plenty abOunds throughout
the lands, when the passion of sectional
strife have been stillcd; when the
waves of party conflict have been
Gained; when only the nurmur of
spoils-men could be heard in discord
with the general tranquiiitS--thcn in
| deed is the gloom that "ncircIrS the
nation impenetrablc.
THE NEW YORK SUN.
NEW YORK, July 3.--'jhe Sun, in lis
article on the attempted assassination
Of President Garfield, says: No event
since the assassination OF Abraham
Lincoln has created such 4 shock. The
sensation of profound SORROW is univcr-
sal. The American people havc but
one heart to-day, and it is overwhclm-
ed and tragic striking down of their
| chief executive magistrate l'Ortu
natcly, deplorailc AS this terrible event
is, and although it will be attended by
important personal consequences, the
death OF Gen. Garfield will have no
political significance. 1T WAS not the
work of a party or of q faction but was
perpetrated by one man, who is under
stood to have been in q state of mental
| alteration ut the time.
TIE NEW YORK TIMES.
The Times says: The Presidents
| life was assailc,l by wretch who re-
presents AS distinctly tho evil in our
system as President Garfield represents
the good, for, though the murderer was
| obviously OF 4 uiSOrlerCu mind, it is
| impossible to ignore the causes which
led immediately to this act which
directed hisill-rcguiatcd Will to its final
aim. He was Il disappointed Office
seeker, and he linked the bitterness of
his present disappointment with the
passionate luminosity of faction. His
resentment was inilamcd and intcnsi-
fed by the assaults upon the President
which have been cofnmon in too many
circles for the past few months Ger
| tainly we arc far from holding any
party or any section Of Il party rcspon-
Sibfe for this murucrous act, but we
believe it our duty to point out thai
the act was an exaggerated expression
of Il sentiment of narrow and bitter
hatred which has been only too freely
INDUCED.
! TIE NEW YORK TRIBUNE.
Tho Tribune says: President Gar
field has been shot down, not by 4
political faction, but by the spirit
which political faction has bcgottcn
and nurscd; but for That spirit there
was hardly Il man in this country who
seemed at sunrise yesterday more safe
from murtlcrous assaults To-day the
whole nation bows in sorrow the no
BILE observation-disclosures, whose deeds
| have already honorcd the nation
throughout the woyid-Gcnial friend,
tender husband and loving fathcr-ilaS
fallen 10y the shot of an assassin. There
was no personal quarrel. II docs not
appear that the victim had ever known
or seen his ;lSsailant- There is :bS0-
lutcly nothin. To account for this hor-
riblc deed, which, to the great nation,
is a terrible calamity, except the crazy
spirit of faction.
THE N t:W Nsi;k II Iti:,tHt-
The Herald says: Should Garfield
die, his Fate would be u national
calamity, Thc attempt appears to- be
only the Wilt act Of mailman. Dc
monstrationc could hardly make the fact
palmer Than it NOW is, that the assas-
sin WAS crazy and that he acted under
the insane impulse in his conception,
that to have refused him IN office was
an outrage that called to:' the sacrifice
Of life. IL is plain and clear enough 10
our people that the tragedy has no
political relations ana is only au On
preston of the insane impulses OF an
individual, bat abroad where they
imagine us, from tho late agitatinus, to
bc i'll Il foyer of revolution and where
they don't know that the limit OF
party passion never rises TO this height,
the event will be misunderstood and
fnr IL