The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-21
THE PRESIDENT DEAD rae PRBslDBSl
LIVING.

THE PRESIDENT DBaD-FHB President
LIVING
Fortunately for tie people-tor our ''u"'
try, tho late President G,rdii We
aound given him by Tho assassin on 'hs'
fa.eful morning OF tho 2nd of july some
thing over two months. We say ior'u
notely because In that time the public MIND
and the public heart we're prepared for Vie
dread iidipes that he had at last suceumoed
to the bullet that laid him low. We know
that in the nearly eighty dsys of his pros'rH'
ton no suffered mos! intensely
suffered bodily pain and mental ans
guish, as he Witnessed the dis
tress of the wife, who was
more to him than life, Of the children the
idols of his hearts love, but it Nss saeri-
ac9, let US say aud believe and feel that 10
endured for his country's good. 1t is true
that the patient, digniaod, noble, msoIy en-
durs, co and fortilude OF moro than eleven
weeks wAs not OF tis ordering, but that very
ps,ieuco, that dignity, shat forlilude with
which he bore it, exal,a Into the patriotic
sacrifice Of tho man who loved his country
who was not only willing TO die Tor II ID
he proved on many periions hei0S
duriog the late war, but who WIS
willing 10 suffer through weary weeks rs Wen
that all might be well with II ltis grAu!-
Ing to every citizen Of this land, DO he north
man or southroD, be he from tho east or from
tho west, be he native born or naturahzcc--
1t 10 gratifying Eye, it arouses sill his prloe
and fills his heart with glsdness, all sorrow
fll though his heart may be, 10 note lle
universal sorrow and manifestations OF gile',
50 pronounced throughout the length ara
breadth Of our union. All classes. the rllh
and the poor, the exalted and the humble,
tho Christian and the sinner-mon, Vom'n
and children are stricken with deep senee
OF woe, and there are sobs in all voices, teas
on all checks, even those that scarcely ever
know u tear. A nation is in mourning thls
day Above the bloody bier of its late chief
ruler it drops ita tear. But tho president
never dies. BE who was president may die,
may lilo dead, and the people who honored
him in life may mourn his loss and moisten
thegrsve clothes about his pusolcss iorm,still
the president lives. AS Tsnnyson says 'the
old year may lay dying, but his bier comes
a riding post haste DER the moor" This is
u paraphrase, but it conveys our meaning.
Tho dead president we mourn, and his mem
DRY we would embalm, but the livingspres-
dent We must hail and with greetings of
homage due the exalted position. 1t may te
that "there is u divinity that doth hedge IN
a king" but there is thousand fold more
exalted and grsnder a divinity that doth
hedge 10 the president Of our republic, the
president made so by the sovereign will of
the peoplo and of the law that 10
OF their sovereign creation. General
Chester A. Arthur ia as truly tho
president of these United States by the will
and tho wish OF the states as II he had boon in
the lrst instance elected to that position. If
he is the president, the chief magistrate of
the land, We owe him allegiance and legal
homage. 1--we owe him allegiance and legal
homsge, why then should there ever have
been apprehension about his succession to
tho exalted positioni That no will not
rightfully and honestly administer the affairs
Of this government according to his best
abilities and in defence and maintenance of
the constitution and tho laws
hereunder rs no has sworn TO do, who
can gainsay, who is authorized or empowered
to question: Qaietly and digniaed no has
assumed the responsible duties incumbent as
tho chief ruler Of this nation, with manifest
sorrow aud expressed grief at the cause
which has necessitsted it. and so far there has
been no evidence Of any excitement. any fear,
any uneasiness, any national disturbance what
ever The sudden change Of rulers and the
uncertainties such an event naturally creates,
must Affect in some slight degree the ilnan-
cial and commercial concerns of the country,
but thi, free land Of ours has recuperatiye
powers thst no olhsr land on the facs of the
globe possesses. L! Is because We are all
frssmen, because this 10 a government of
the psople, by the people, for the people and
during the moro than two months illness
and suffering of the late President Garfield
the country discounted those uncertainties
and climbed the hill tho change of presi-
dents would naturally present. The country
10 prosperous from It's one extreme to the
other. Money Is abundant and public and
private confidence swsys all bosoms Sec
tionalism Of the dead past has
been buried with its dead,
q 8 tears have washed out the doubts
Of political differences. In 1873 II took but
a little thing TO produce a financial panic.
The air was loaded down with the measure
and sporadic case, germ was all that was
necessary to cause an epidemic. jay
Cookies failure was the sporadic caso,
and like bosom Of destruction the
scourge of financial and commercial stag
nation parslyze the entire country. There
Ia M .nah ,nalaria shraad NO., Nh 4.