Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-07-09
Vice President Arthur.

markable incident in the sorrowful histo-
ry Of passing events, which we venture
to prophesy will not be overlooked when
the chronicles Of our day and generation
shall come hereafter to be written We
refer to the writer's recent visit to the
Vice President in the seclusiOn of his
present abiding place at the National
capital, whittier he has been called by the
Cabinet to meet the possible emergency
of the Presidents demise. No one can
read this account without being struck
with the unpretending truthfulness of it's
statements; and no one can believe them
to be true without feeling the deepest
sympathy for the man upon whom may
possibly devolve duties more delicate and
burthens heavier in public station than
ever fell to the lot Of mortal to encounter
in all our history. The picture of a
strong mans sorrow IS at all times pite-
Gus enough, but that presented by the
solitary attitude Of the Vice President as
seen through the simple and touching
narrative Of the Times correspondent, set
i'll the light Of contemporary events,
must move feelings Of commiseration no
prejudice can lessen, no one with a spark
Of humanity in his nature can fail to en-
tertain. Of all the attendant evidences of
grief that group themselves around the
stricken Chief Magistrate, echoed from
every corner of the globe, none are more
powerful-none are SO suggestive as
those that fall from the deep sincerity of
the Vice Presidents uuntterabe affiic-
ton. One hears out of the depths Of it
the murmur Of the prayer: ''Would that
this cup might pass from me!''
Were it to face the crisis of such a ca
lamity as this foul deed has brought to
the Presidents possible successor, under
circumstances calculated to assuage to
the uttermost the suddenness of the
shock, bravely to stand up under it,would
task to It's last limit q strong mans
strength. But when, as the writer tells
us in effect, the evil eye of suspicion
dares to follow on the footsteps aud hang
it has been miserable mockery to call
'the beneficiary" Of this frightful dispen-
Sation-then indeed is there need Of SYM
pathy for him to whom fate has allotted
such terrible experience. Blistered be
the tongue Of evil inEuendo! blinded be
the eye that watches for signs of such
significance as throw the suspicion of
complacency upon him who waits upon
this awful trial! If faction be not ST.
fenced in the presence of this fell calami-
ty, if partisan rancor be not forgotten,
and, to the credit Of our common human
ity left to shrivel up-out of sight, out of
mind-then indeed have we fallen upon
an evil age: then
"-judgoment thou art fled to british beasts.
And men have lost their reason!"
To surround the Vice President in the
midst of this great woe with all the NOR
al support the Nation can command is not
only decent and decorous thing, but
in view of the infectious character Of such
an act as has laid the generous-hearted
Garfield low-it is a duty every citizen
owes to his country, her good order, ,herfair
fame and her place among the nations Of
the earth, to his own manhood to the
commonest instincts of humanity. Let
us have done with this infamous palter-
ing Of beneficiary, "once and for all ;letthe
heart of every citizen go out in sympathy
for him who is of the living SuffararS
from this calamity, who, it is but simple
justice to say, should share our solicitude