The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-09-22
purAsz1's SORROW
Over the Sad News Of the Presi-
dents Death.

1
dents Death.
AS soon as it became known
Tuesday morning that Presiden
Garfield was dead Mayor Grow is
sued a call for the assembling o
the people together in the cour
room at 2 o'clock, as follows:
FELLOW CITIZENS:
The unreasonable grief that weighs
heavily upon every American hear
will find expression to-day in lamenta
ton and mourning. Under the weigh
of oppressive sorrow. l feel impelIeo
to call this people together that we may
pay our humble tribute TO the memory
of him over whose Iifeless corse a great
nation is bowed in unexampled an
guish. Heaven has smitten us nightly
and while we yield submissively TO thi;
sore ehastening, it is meet that we thus
publicly assem- BILE to honor the memory
of Americas second great martyr.
In obedience to this call and at the
ringing OF the bell the people as.
sem bied in the county court room
until it was Gro ~ded. The bell had
been tolled in the morning and dur
ing the meeting the business houses
we're closed. DR.. G. G. Alternately
moved that Capt. John S. Wilkes
be called to the chair, which pre-
vailed. Capt. Wilkes upon assum-
ing the chair said that for days and
months the people had waited at
the presidents bedside, waiting,
watching and praying that he
might be spared, but Providence
decreed otherwise. We had become
estranged from each other aad this
great calamity was possibly sent to
bring US together again and do
away with sectionalism. Itimpres.
ses the people with the supremacy
of law and the Importance of it's
maintenance. Capt. Wilkes an
nounced the meeting ready for bus
mess.
Laps. D. McCord and Benz. Carter
were made sseFetaFieG.
Capt. Jas. R. Grove moved that a
committee of five be selected co
draft suitable resolutions. The
motion prevailed and the chair APP
pointed Jas R. Grove, Scion f.
Rose, DIR. G. C. Alternately, j. H.
Norris and DR.. E. Edmundson. The
Committee retired aR9 ip it's sb-
sence Laps. ID. McCord was called
and addressed the meeting The
Committee reported the following
RESOLUTIONS
The sad intelligence has reached US
that President Garfield died at Elberon
yesterday at 10 80 p. M, after long and
painful suffering.
RESOLVED, that in his brief admins
tration OF the government we recognize
a conservative president, Just ruler,
an able executive and a christian gen.
tleman, and that in accord with the uni |
versal sorrow we deplore his untimely |
death as a national calamity.
REsoLFRI, That we tender our heart |
felt sympathy and sorroW to his family |
in their sad bereavement and de- !
plore their loss of kind son, an affec-
donate husband ard fond, indulgent |
father.
RESOLVED, That the family be fur
1ished certified copy of these resolu-
ions.
Col. Bose, Ia presenting the reso
utions, said it was eminently ap
to thus express our feel
ngs and emotions, and though our
'orrow is oppressive. this country
stands not alone in its grief, but
European empires are shaken and
oreiGn hearts are smitten with sad
less. Our own great land is real
ng and heaving in the throes OF
amentation as if the world were be
ng rocked by storms. President
iarfield's life is the highest culOgi-
m that can be passed upon him.
10 man in modern times has died !
18th Ho,e herolsm. His memory {
'ill lihger like rose rlnts Oh the
ummer evenings sky long after (
be sun has set. 6
DIR. Gordon moved the adoption
f the resolutions, which prevailed
unanimously.
Gen. SPARROW of AonisianS wigs
allied and said he did not expect {
, say a word, but be felt with all G
t US that our country had suffered
n irreparsble loss, but the heavi-
st loss is perhaps upon the south.
lie brought himself up from the d
umblest station step by step to the I
lghest point to which freesmen's II
nbitlod aspire, even upoA the t
lane with princes and potentates. +,
is great life was shaped and Z
rought out by a mother whose
'nderness cropped out in his own
,tions, At the browning hour of b
Is life, When he had taken the oath +
lat advanced him to the highest {
osition man ever occupied, his Ii
rst act was in recognition of his L
Idebtedness to his mother as he Il
lrned and embraced her before the a
pturnsd faees of sdmiring thou t.
Lnds. t.
Mr.. j. H. Morris said that moth p
g had occurred in twenty years to
ring hearts SO close together as \
lis sad event. 1t overcame him as =
3 bowed in sorrow. The great !,
an whose lifeless body is encof- =
ned to-day died as he had lived, a =
odel christian man. Eighty days =
as he racked with pain, yet not '
urmur even against the miscreant =
no laid him low. In the presence " -
this great sorrow we know no ID
aoF lines, bqt we
cognize our uAiverssl calamity f
I'd all our hearts bleed alike. 7
II was remarked that it was the Il
ost orderly assembly ever seen in is
e court room, and each man s
emed to be impressed with sor- I
w. Il
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