The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-08-24
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The New York Herald, IN an edl-
torial on the possibility of the death
of President Garfield and the
accession of Vice President Arthur
to the Presidency, Gays:
"1fr. Arthur comprehends that if he
should be called to the Presidency the
public would hold him to stern and
Jealous responsibility for any and every
misbap. We have not the least doubt
that he will feel keenly and nervously
the delicacy of his position, and his
whole course since the President was
struck down shows that he has had just
thoughts and right instincts on this
matter. He has kept himself at once
and entirely aloOf from politics aud
politicians. He made haste to place
himself in Washington on friendly and
intimate relations with all the cabinet.
His conduct has been in every way
creditable to him.
"If Mr. Arthur should become Presi-
dent we believe he will make no changes
in the administration; will make no re-
movals from office at large except for
cause; will attempt no change in the
pol icy or in the personnel of the present
administration; for To do or attempt to
do any of these things would be to in
vite ruin upon his own head. We be-
lieve he will quietly take up the reins
as they fall from Gen. Garfeld's hands.
No doubt the present cabinet, and prob
ably some of the other important officers
of the government, will offer him their
resignatiOns This would be a proper
course for them TO pursue. But we are
equally certain that Mr.. Arthur will at
once ask them to continue in office, and
it will be- their highest duty to the
country to do So If Mr.. Garfield
should unhappily die there will be no
extra session of Congress; there will be
no cabinet changes; there will be no
new policies attempted, but lie county
will go on, the public business will go
on Just as before. There is ne occasion
for alarm"
The New York Times, in an arti-
Gle on the same subject, says:
''No man may DO able todischargs so full
Iy and conscientiOusly the nations work
as would james A. Garfield, strengthen
ed and purified by the discipline OF suf-
fering and sustained by the affections
of a keenly sympathetic people. But
no man will dare to abuse it, be his
temptation what they may, who has to
deal with such a spirit of Indignation
over long-tOlerstcd political abuses and
so resolute IA determination to reGtitude
in return for confidence, as have been
awakened during the last few weeks.
The spirit and the determination have
never been wanting, but they have had
to give PLACE to feelings which were
powerfully excited by the special peces-
stiles of the hour, and there have been
l,erio,ls when certain easy confidence
in the future has left them dormant.
The path of duty to which President
Garfield would be lifted amid the &C
claim Of a grateful and trustful people
can he none the less clearly marked out
than the responsibility which Wsuld be
sterpIy pressed upon bis successor. The
President may die. but, so far from
passing away with him, the work WHICH
he was expected to do will become the
of the people themselves,
and will be pressed to completion with
vigor to which Individual seldshness or
apathy must yield. aud which viii Gre
ate a party for itself if no existing party
can fifty embody it,"
The Times in a news article, after
to the fact that Vice Presi-
dent Arthur was visited Tuesday
evening by Gen. Grant, Hon. Roscoe
Senator Jones, ofNevada,
and other intimate personal and
political friends, says:
1T may be stated on good authority
that IN the event of Gen. Arthur's sue
ession to the Presidency through the
leath of Gen. Garfield, Gen. Arthur will |
be sworn into office as President in this |
city. That is of course on the assump- |
ion that President Garfield should die |
while Gen. Arthur is in New York. The |
oath of office may be administered by |
my public officer who is authorized to |
oaths. One of the gentlemen
present at last nights gathering said to
Times reporter that the oath might be
if necessary, by Police
Justice B:xby, who lives only two doors
Instant from Gen. Arthur's house. The
question has been considered by Gen.
Arthur and his advisers, and the conclu-
ion reached was that he should assume
he office as promptly as possible, but
here was no need for haste about it. AS
o the matter of an interregnum in the
flee of President, about which many
ersons and many journals seems so
Olicitous, Gen. Arthur holds that there
lust be an iuterregnum any way, if on
? for n minute, and that a few hours
an or will make hut little difference.
N interregnum of five minutes is an
lterregnum as distinct rs if it wc:e for
We hours"
The New York papers quote OK
enator ConkIing as having said to
friend Tuesday: II cannot tell
gu what anxious hours | have
assed since my Washington dis !
atches of yesterday. A relapse at +
~ time is dangerous, but at pres :
It the most of ALL The moro I !
ink of this fearful tragedy the ;
,mer | am convinced that our
,untry is passing through danger =
is crisis, and that Nj Garfeld's ;,
,ath would be one of the most I'M +
rtunate things that could happen !
it. ! do not intend to leave the r
n should the President grow :
1rse, unless it should be to offer .
~ ,o,.xyiooc 10 tho bapaaua1 family - | .