National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-09-22
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Opinions ON the Death OF tho President
from Journals of All Pnriica


Tragedies, ever calamitous, are doubly
so when they spring from murder and attach
themselves to the head Of the state, the symbol OF
power the representative Of the people and of law
lfever mortal stood IN these relations to his coun.
| try and his time, this man did So II was the
| universal sense that he did so which brought
around his bedside his fellow. citizens, without
distinction of political opinion, and caused women
who had never seen him to pray for him, and
little children, who conceived not the emergency
nor the magnitude OF the contingencies bearing
upon his life to ask each day after his we'll being
as ifhe were father III and dying in some far. Off
place.-LouisrNie COurfer- Journal (DcB,)
II Is hardly wortl while to recall the fierce as.
saults made from time TO time upon the character
Of Its subject. No public man in this country es.
capes. such attacks and in most eases 1t must un.
happily be confessed that they are well deserved.
To say that General Garfield erred at times Is but
to say that he was human but proof that his errors
were corrupt or criminal has never been produced.
Chicago Times (Ind) -,
The livos of Ge-tiel IL -,IncullItnn,- =, go -h'eo
Tnere are h few i2SsSGa"6Si asa 81 Lincoln R%i always
be linked together in the pathetic record of
common tragic fate, but they Will also be claSsed
together as indications OF the type Of man that Is
to be contributed to the drama of our Nations
history by those divisions OF our people that grow
up in circumstances where they are comparatively
unaffected by youtsldc infuences.-Nt,o York Herald
(Rep)
We have lost n man for whom not only bis gr.at
seat of authority but his catholic motiyaa -s dis
closed in his public utterances, command 'pcct.
Henceiorth he lives IN memory, and nj he
was permitted TO accomplish but httlo dupng Ma
presidential service, by his death he has giveg TO
his countrymen deeper scrutiny into Themselves
a most precious seryice.-Nec ORLEANS Times (D,,nI
It's not so much the President whom tho noon,n
mourn In. day mot so much tho rpIer os. Ca,iin,d
the man, who in 20 MANY WAYS In those last tro,i
cal DAYS of his life endeared himself to them and
showed the m how truly great and how truly
n oble was the man whom they had made their
Chief Magistrate Auoono Tribune
As citizens we weep for tho death of the Chief
Magistrate and beod Of tho Maize, on, do,,,, ,n
tho n rime of his lire md usefulness Aa nort or
the orcat household whose dntber Is CONC We min.
sIo our teors with those who monr, ,be Ios. ,h
tender father and loving husband : P,o,j;,,, Si,1
of Berks
Tho oountrv Iosos tho sorvicos of N prosidop,
nossessinc the ,,rest Qualifications for tho nor
formonce of all duties that Inv before him and
tho south loses n friend conoblo of tboro,.hIv
svmnatbjzlng with tho dibiculties of the nrobIems
which are the Iepaoles of the war,-dRanta zeal
Cans,ji,,,jou Deu,I
Fvorv man must fee, TINT ho bos been beue6ted
nv his knowledqe of James A. Garfield. and tho
heart "a Gallons indeed that cannot feel n panr OF
repret that such a noble life Rhould end so sadly.
peace he his The world will not forget him =
ScronIon Pe,,,b,io1n
From the begInning IN the ond of his existence
bi. ,yos iC ire that 700 ara wont IN snrn, of as
tvpIcol oS American mower His career wns Grand
oiyin, abundant evidence or tho nower tho cour
sge and the emerge of this wondcrfnl man Nos,
Cbestcr RcovbIjcan
A, nowharo wos tho decd of the ossassin ,noro
oongomnod and exccratcd than IN the south
so nowhcre In ,his broad land win the death of
Tho President he more generally nnd sincerely Ia.
~ on,od ,ban In ,,o sou,b -I,t,ys,,,o T,ie,. An.
ne,,J IDsnN
uc viii now olways remain one of the soints n,
samaritan story without n snot ON the whi,eness
of his o,runents ono or tho few Presidents who
have icf, tho White House amid universal rover.
oncs and regrot--Nc,p york Erc,,iuo Past CPenl
Ills nowers ot their summit and The comino
shadow of bodilv nnd mental decay vet aInr otl
and destined m live ALWAYS in the sanity halo oi
a mart,r he was os fortnpate i'm his death ne is
nossIhle I'm n diving man.-Gncinnati Gazette (Renl
A,iar naar,y ,,Toa mortbs Of intonsc sut,srinc
hnrno via, smblimo aud heroic fnrtItudc The ana
bns come THE President is dead. and with his
iaa, hroa, he draws viii him the nroonnd af,ec.
ton Of a hereave1 neonle. -HarrisLa,ro patriot
t 1t dootb rn h,I s Il Do tlo ,ao,inns ,v
oylnco connnon s,mnathy tbo, NAV con,ont moro
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