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The keen vibration of bright truth is hell.


And yet, in the hideous features of that
xcrime, an appalled, nation must recognize the
Legitimate offspring of political hate and dis
&appointed ambition, joined with contempt for
{law, human and divine. Let each of US beware
3how we lower the moral standard of the COM
3munity either by the defamation of a political
opponent or by an equally demoralizing de-
Hence of corrupt and dangerous favorite; by
Encouraging a sentimentalism which, lost to
\ righteous indignation, calls crime misfortune,
5ignores the eternal distinction between wick
edness and innocence, and opposes due retri-
button for the guilty; or by countenancing
$lawless spirit which in its blind, insensate
vengeance would disgrace the American name
even in the esteem Of Asiatic despotism, by
3offsetting one assassination by another, and
5applauding the cowardly attempt of military
4 guard to murder his prisoner.
That an All-merciful Creator should have
4 endowed his creatures with incomparably
greater power to injure than to benefit ono
another is one of the darkest mysteries of
5ife
One sinner destroyeth much good
4 AS we contemplate the assassination Of two
! 5blameless presidents within the brief COM
Spass of sixteen years, we are shocked at the
insecurity which our civilization offers. The
Hives of the greatest and the best the highest
hopes and the parest affections of the nation
seem at the mercy of every disappointed, des-
5perate villain, save as he may be restrained by
THE invisible arm of Him in whose hand our
1 breath is and whose are all our ways.
Ought not this frightful disclosure of the
dangers which here as in the other hemi-
4sphere, haunt the high places of honor and
power, to cool the madness of ambition, and
lead us to appreciate the blessings of a less
exalted stationl
The lifted axe, the agonizng wheel,
Lukes iron crown, and Damien's bed Of steel,
To men remote from power but rarely known,
Leave conscience, faith and Virtue all our own.
What the nation needs, and what, let us
hope, this public bereavement may effect
lis an awakening of the popular conscience to
1the sacredness of life, the majesty of law and
the paramount demands of duty, based on our
obligations to each other and to God. Scientific
Iscofers have sought to undermine the faith of
THE people by sneers at the Scriptures, ridicule
|of Christianity, denial of the efficacy of
prayer and doubts even of the existence of a
Deity. But when great sorrow overshadowed
the land, skepticism stood speechless before
mighty nation bowed in prayer to the God of
their fathers that the life of their chief magis
]trate might be spared And though in his
inscrutable wisdom the Almighty did not
Ivouchsafe to answer our people according to
their wishes, no blasphemer has yet been
Hound so bold as to ridicule the faith which he
mad hitherto affected to despise.
The roeanest atbaist ,,retcb OF, ue,ven leaos
But starts and trembles when the thunder flies.
So deep are the foundations of national de-
votion, and so close, in times of distress and
trial, is the connection between patriotism
and piety.
4 This great assembly reflects the sentiment
zof the people OF the United States. In spirit
3ot deyout reverence, all creeds nationalltles
and faiths have met as one man, with one
heart and one mind, to honor the illustrious
dead, to testify our detestatlon OF the CRIME
which has plunged the nation In grief and the
world IN gloom, to dedicate ourselves anew
70 the service OF our country and to demand
the righteous doom of the law upon the author
Iof tins foul murder.
Let US, at this trying hour, lend generous
confidence to him who, like our lamented
|cnief, trained IN the school, OF poverty self
5denlal and sacrifice, educated, ike him. under
New England influences, himself son of
New England early dedicating his noble pro-
3tession TO the service of liberty by the enfran-
=. 'ne 'eO i.ao' sn Ns
3.ne constieuIon anu Tue choice oi Tue peopie'
3oecome the President OF the republic.
HON. WILLIAM L. PUTNAM.
1,ha s,,oa,a~s, .ha. h. d;d -, o,.ooo+ 20
aa ao;d snls % interest," 20 wna' nau Ts
being invited he could not decline the privilege
|oI uniting ms VOICE WITH e The b;storr ~ss
|any account. There was not the Slightest
SHADOW or excnse of nrovocation either in the
|t;me nlace tbe occasion the Office or the man.
When man is struck down it is natural that
1--we shonId seek for the canse some have
claimed thar the remote cause was party spirit
land the partisan distribution of offices. The
speaker. while condemuing the present sys-
|ems of dispensing public patronage was not
willing to concede that there is ANYTHING in
|our social system. of which assassination is
|the natural growth. 1t is not easy for us to
Read the purposes of Providence. but all such
events teach us lessons and have their con-
ISOLATION. The most important Of these have
|alreadv heen allnded to hnt Mr. Putnam said
|tbat ono of the greatest consultations was the
universal expression of sympathy. and al
buded to the Oueep as having rs II were with
her own nitving hand laid the floral wreath
|upon the sepuIehre of the President. He
|ouoted from the London Times as follows:
sucn mas mas cb S ne pcvs1eJ
world Id is honoTipg the late President Garfield.
3Emperors and kings, senate and ministers are, in
Esprit, his pail bearers but their peopes from Sne
ap sndibe N .,'s ss s"rro,,vin@ ' assistants
4 c,,...,,o-,, ,.,d .,l.,..5 soloo.;o, ,nd tho
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mayor introduced
HON. w. w. THOMAS. JR.
NJ oo,,,,r,,r,o,, A oroo, or;ef has fallen
|,;ta s ooli oou" oxsr al the land G,rseld tbe
|I;nn hea-tod "a dea5 Ar this verv bonrs on
|rha sho~es Of that great lake he loved SO well.
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IL .ha I'LL, ear,h of hi: native State
Al we aye gatbered together in this far
OF o,tv h, tba saa to manifest our love for the
Iraa, opr honor for the President and our sor-
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r,1a;sas eud lament The loss of opr dead chief
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,..;t. So,sad a,d r,,covered heads bv that omen
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% Will frono ali the na3;ons of the earth
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