The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-10-05
LAST SAD RITES.


The band played NedItl, NY
to Thee - as the military escort lift
ed the coffin from the car and car
ried il into the vault, the local COM
mittee ofreception, Secretary Blame,
Marshal Henry. and one or two per-
sonal friends standing at either side
of the entrance. None of the Pres
ident's family, except two of the
bows. left the carriages during the
services, which occupied less than
half an hour. DR.. J. b. Robinson,
as President of the day, opened the
services by introducing Rev. j. ID:
Jones. Chaplain of the Forty-second
Regiment. ohio Volunteer Infantry,
rs follows sRev. J. H. Jones, Chap
lain of the Forty-second Regiment,
who went out with General Garfield,
will offer some remarks"
GRAFTON OF REV. MR.. JONES
Mr.. Jones said: "0ur illustrious
friend has completed his journey's s
end-a journey that we must all
soon make, and that in the near fu,
ture. Yet whenl see the grand
surroundings Of this occasion, / am
led to inquire, was this man son
of the emperor or of the king that
wore a crown? for in the history OF
this country there has been nothing
like this seen by the people, and
perhaps, speaking after the manner
of men, that he was a prince, and
this was offered in a manner after
royalty. He was..not, my friends.
1t is not an offering ola king 1t is
not as we are taught an offering to
earthly kings and emperors, though
he was a prince and freeman, the
Great Commoner ofthe United States.
Only a few miles from where we
stand, less than fifty years ago, in
the primeval forests of this State
and in this country, he was born,
and all he asks of you now is peace
full grave in the bosom of the land
that gave him birth. cannot speak
10 YOU of his wonderful life and his
work; time forbids, and history
will take care ofthat, and your chill
dren's children willread of this emo
ton when we have passed away
from this earth. But let me say
when was permitted with these
honorable men to go to Pittsburg
as a committee to receive his NOR
tai remains, / saw from that city to
Cleveland hundreds and thousands
of people and many ofthem in tears,
and this reflection came to me, that
there was a death over the land.
The soil for five hundred miles was
moistened with tears, as we passed
from the city OF Washington to
Cleveland. Then / asked myself
the meaning Of all this, for | saw
the workingmen out of the rolling
mills with smoke and dust all over
their faces, their heads uncovered,
with tears running down their
bronzed cheeks, and bated breath,
asked what is the meaning of all
this, because it casts down work
ingman /? He was a workingman
himself, for he has been a worker
from birth almost. He has fought
his way through life at every step,
and the workingman he took by
the hand. and there were sympathy
and brotherhood between them. L
saw in small cottages as well as the
splendid mansions drapings on the
shutters, and it may have been the
only eilwhich the poor woman
had and with tears in her eyes she
saw us pass. / asked, why, what
interest has this poor woman in
this man? She had read that he was
born in a cabin, and that when he
got old enough to work in the beech
woods he helped to support his
widowed neither. Then | saw the
professions and the colleges pour
out, and the local professions and
those civic societies and military all
concentrated here, and he has touch
ed them in his passage thus far
through life, and you feel that he is
your brother. He is therefore a
brother of you in all these regards ;
but when a man dies his work usu-
ally follows him. When we sent
Garfield to the Capitol at Washing
ton he weighed 210 pounds. He
had a soul that loved his race, a
splendid intellect that almost bent
the largest form to bear it. You
bring him back to us mere hand.
full of some eighty pounds, mostly
of bones, in the casket. Now, / ask
why is this?
do not stop to talk about the
man who did the deed. "Venge-
ance is mine," saith the Almighty
God 81 will repay him." He sees
the terrors of a scaffold before him.
probably, and the eternal disgrace
that falls to the murderer and the
assassin, and he is going down to
the judgement of God and the
frowns of the world. But where is
the James A. Garfield that we lent to
YOU seven months ago? Many OF
you were there at the time OF
his Inauguration, and witnessed
the grandest pageant that ever pass
ed in front of the Capitol, and the
grandest that was ever had in the na'
tion was held on that occasion. And
now comes this unwelcome, yet
splendid exhibition, that will be
read of all over the world with re-
gret. For Secretary Blaine, in a
business-like manner, to-day made
out that there were at least three
hundred millions Of people of the
world mourning the death of Presi-
dent Garfield and offering up sym
pathy. Where is he? there is all
that is left of him, the grand, the
bright and brilliant man. Now tina,
soul that loved, that mind that
thought and impressed itself upon
the world, must come back, for i
thoughts live will that precious
thought cease to be dead. In rea-
son, he speaks, and in example lives
His thoughts are mighty deeds still
hourishing in thestructure Weshall
get him back.
Fellow citizens, in conversation
with the one nearest and dearest tc
him, she said when she thought oi
his relations as a husband, as son