Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-26
threads in the texture of life that has
been of the brightest aud noblest.
THE LAST RESTING PLACE.

THE LAST RESTING PLACE.
The first thought of many people IN
regard to the burial place of the dead
president was no doubt desire that the
capital of the nation should be the place
selected. Washington possesses the
tomb of no one of the seventeen chief
magistrates whom death has claimed in
years gone by. Yet it has cemetery
under the control of the national govern
ment. where are the graves of many en-
inent public men. 1t would seem pecul-
iarly fitting that the city which is the
!: property of the whole people should be
the last resting place of the presidents
of the whole people. But death. the
great leveler, absolves the claims of the
nation upon its rulers, and leaves only
the ties of kindred and home associations
to determine the question of a fit place
{ VI oCpuItut0.
The preference of the nation must
yield to the wishes of his family, who
] naturally desire that his grave should
] be near their Ohio home. In this case,
too, there is an additional reason for not
departing from the settled custom. Oft
I en- in his lifetime the dead president ex-
pressed wish that his body might be
buried in Lake View cemetery at Cleve-
land. A wish which the pious love of
surviving kindred holds sacred in the
j case of private citizen is no less sacred
q in that of a chief magistrate. The
q choice falls upon spot peculiarly fitted
8 in many ways to be the last resting
! place of Ohio's greatest statesman.
q Lake View cemetery lies upon high,
q wooded ridge in the eastern outskirts of
8 Cleveland, overlooking the city and the
q blue waters of Lake Erie. 1t is APP
q preached by the beautiful Euclid avenue
q the pride of Cleveland, q street ranked
q by all travellers to be among the finest
d in the world. Within sight of the
s. highest ground in the cemetery is the
q place where the farmer boy whom desti-
s ny had marked for great achievements
and great suffering first saw the lake
3 while chopping wood to earn money to
81 educate himself, and was fitted by the
d sight of its restless shining waves to
know the world and to mingle in its
81 large affairs. About ten miles to the
s. south is the site of the log cabin where
81 he was born. and there is still standing
81 the plain little frame house which he
Es and his brother built with their own
I hands for their widowed mother when
their own sturdy toll had lifted the fam
&; lily out of the pinching straits in which
b it was left by the death of their father.
81 Twenty miles to the east on the same
81 ridge upon which the cemetery lies (ar
81 old shore of the lake in prehistoric
IS times) is the Mentor farm he loved 81
s well and longed to see once more before
81 death closed his eyes forever.
8 Cleveland is the metropolis of the
q western reserve af Ohio, from whose
81 New England population, characterized
& by industry, independence, religious
s. feeling and love of liberty and justie,
b sprang James A. Garfield, the best prod
81 uct in the fields of craftsmanship of GU
81 latest civilization. 1t is fit and wei
q that Cleveland should possess and car
q for his tomb. The nation will rear hi
81 monument with its voluntary and heart,
81 offerings. 1t must be worthy of hi
n great fame, but more enduring than it
81 columns and tablets will be the memoir
81 of his noble career and tragic fate born
b in the great heart of toiling, aspirin
q humanity, which loves the worker VIII
81 does we'll his work and honors high aim
81 true courage and brave endeavor.