Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-10-06
EULOGY ON GARFIELD.

E. Church, delivered an eulogy on
Garfield as follows:
observation-disclosures L.
Overture was negro, born in st.
Domingo and slave. He accom-
plished his own freedom,-became
learned and a leader of bis race
commanded the admiration of the
world and-died.
Lanfrey. one of the rarest think
ers and soundest historians of the
present age, speaking of him, his
achievements and his death, said:
'L'Overture could die for he had
done great thing. He demonstrat-
KID that he and his race were men
and fully capable of self-govern-
ment."
Of him, whom the nation and the
world mourn, whose body, to-day,
amid tears and prayers, is being laid
to rest on the banks of Lake Erie, in
that beautiful cemetery, overlooking
its blue and peaceful waters, may it
not be said: Garfield could die for
he has done great thing. He has
illustrated in himself, at once, the
possibilities of our free institutions
and the full measure and dignity of
the ideal American citizen.
1t may not be, indeed it Is not, a
great thing,-to be a clergyman,
the President Of of College,
"a lawyer and stand in the
courts,-aGeneral and fight bat
ties, sit in the House Of Repre-
sentatlves,- TO wear the Senatorial
mantle or to occupy the Presidential
chair, for all these things be but ac-
cidents; but, to qualify ones self for
such high places, to make himself
equal to the faithful performance of
all their varied duties, and bear, well,
all the responsibilities peculiar and
incident to each; and in such manner
as to enoble and dignity all official
station, and at the sametlme to meek
ly sustain their aggregated honors,
as but a citizen, is indeed great
thing; and when such results have
been accomplished, the victor-such
victor can afford to die.
AL this and more tic illustrious
dead has accomplished. With IN
austry, persistence and heroism he
oTaff essfs44f fs44ffe ths accidents of his birth,
the obstacles that heset his path
way from infacy to young manhood,
put poverty, the absence Of friesads
and influence, as we'll as all adven
titious circumstances, out of the way
and behind. him ;-toiled on anu ul5
ward until he found himself an ac-
complished Scholars man Of pro-
found learning in Mathematics
philosophy, the classics, states
manship,-modern languages,-the-
ology, -history, ry,-lnter-national and
constitutional law; and all this with
out sacrifice or neglect of his social,
moral or religious nature. For all
these latter were as highly educated
and cultered as was his intellectual.
Indeed, in him were all the elements,
SO united and harmoniously educated,
that he was every way man. And
this, after ,all was his chief honor.
For, to be the true man is better than
the lawyer,-more to be sought than
the -al,-hlgher than the Sena~
tor and grander than President. The
tears of the nation, to-day, flow, for
Garfeld-the MAN! His power and
his honors came from his knightly
manhood.
He lived In an age when "Young
America" was rampant, old
age was not honored, and youth had
but little respect for its parentage;
yet all his life, the dead President,
everywhere, honored his parents.
It will be remembered, that even at
his Inauguration, in the presence Of
the many Thousands who witnessed
that ceremony, he paused and turned
away from all the glitter and pride
and glory of the hour, to reverently
kiss the venerable mother that bore
him, land to whom he that day gave the
seat of honor. Living and shining in
a society, where bold and unblushing
Atheism was fashionable, and its
chief advocate seemed to be the idol
of the hour, he was always an hum
ble,-consistent, t,-militan Christian
for almost the entire term of his
married life he manly resided in To-
calities, where lust, was not compelled
to seek its qualification in hidden
places Or at midnight, and domestic
inidelity in high places, was often
found. Yet he was always the chiv-
alric and loyal husband. AT Wash
ington, where, for so many years, was
his official home; and where, in the
mad strife for place, preferment,
spoils, even, homes andchildren we're
forgotten and sacrificed; yet always
to him was home an earthly heaven,
and his children were always upon
his mind and in his heart as if they
were the "Apple of his Eye, the
costliest of all his jewels. How ten
derly, carefully, lovingly did he nur-
ture and guard and cherish them.
In the highest sense, Garfield was a
great lawyer. He was equal to the
mastery and application OF any prin-
ciple Of international or constitution
al law, snd particularly where their
employment would viadicate the life
or liberty of the citizen, his power
before the courts was that of giant.
Wherever or whenever he conceived
that human life or liberty was jeopar-
died by disregard of constitutional
safeguards, even amid the thunder
of beligerent cannon, he would, and
did, hasten to the Supreme Court,
'tlie last retreat of American hber-
Extraordinarily reward,
against the opinions of his friends,
and even the practices of party asso'
GATES, and demand that that high
Tribunal should make these safe
guards efficient to preserve both ol
either, life or liberty, of even enemies
Of the institutions Of the country.
Astonishing evidence of all thi,
will be feund in the matter of Milli.
gan, application for the writ Of ha
beas corpus, one of the celebrated
cases argued by the deceased. Mil
ligan and others, in 1868, and whil'
the war was fragrant, and the grant
issues involved, being in the balance