New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-03
WHAT TNURLOW WEED SAYS.

HOW TIE NEWS WAS SENT TO HnI--lIs COM
ME,IS-rEEsiDENr GAIFIELD's LAST APPOINr-
MENT.
Thnrow Weed was informed yesterday morning
~ private telegram of the attack upon President
Garfield, ana NJ once went down town 10 gather
further particulars. He returned about 1870 o'clock
TO his home, in West Twclfth-st., where he was
found by reporter OF THE TRIBUNE. lie was much
aga ated by the news
i received an invitation this morning" he said,
to meet President Garfield at a reception that was
to be given him tonight by Cyrus w. Field nj his
house in IrVington, where the President was
to pass Sunday. While in the very act of
sending an answer to tho invitation,
| was shocked by this appalling news
The first feeling everywhere VIII BE- of intense
Indignation and after the first violence of this
emotion has spent ITSELF there will be some results
of more than transitory nature. Ii the President
suryivcs-and cannot dwell upon the opposite con-
tingency-ths attack upon his life will undoubtedly
have n large influence in confirming the sentiment
III favor of the Administration. | know there is
disturbed feeling in other lands about the danger of
Communism and its kindred disorders, and we have
n great deal too much of it in own country
Every such act of violence this creates reaction
against that element, and in favor of established
power. In this way, if President Garfield survives
his Administration will be strengthened and the
cause of Repubhcansm and good government can
not fail to be advanced"
How will the contest at Albany be affected p
" If the President lives ] have doubt that sncb
powerful sentiment will he aroused on the side of
the Administration that no one will be able 10 with
stand ii. 80 many members absent from Albany
to-day that no decided result can he expected be-
fore Tuesday but when the monibeIs return | be-
ilrNe that two ADMINISTRATION Senators viii be
elected almost at oncc.'
DO you look for any effect upon the next Prcsi-
dental election p
That is too far ahead to speculate about. But |
look Tor "A reaction toward the ranks OF the topub-
lean party winch viii not cease to be felt for some
time 10 come
And il the worst fears of the ply sicians should
be realized what then ~
That is II thought too painful to talk about. |
would rather uot speak of it,
" There has been such excitement" Mr. Weed
continued, since the assassination of President
Lincoln. Indeed, II seems To ms that the present
excitement i even greater ilian that. That WAS u
terrible report IN 1860, and ii made oven more
terrible by the announcement which WAS made uJ
ira that Secretary Seward and his son Ncr. also
dead ii was the greatest wonder IN the world that
they recovered. When The news of the murder came.
| Ncni at once to " Washington, aud stayed at the
Secretary hons. GONG TO tuc White House once or
IT Nasa long. long Time before III, country recovered
from its grlcf.'
At o'clock this mornnga Dispatch was brought
to m from io~WaStcr-f ieu,ra James sal Ing that
the Secretary of state wished him 10 INFORM me of
the ap. ointment of the Rev. lIcury II llaud Garnet
to bee Minister To iihcfia. This was IA il plobahil-
It ~ sidont Gari'lt's last appointment before hc
was shot. Mr.. Garnet Is % cOlOrcd man Of good cdu-
Incld' nj that his grandfather was taken prisoner
more than Il century ago IN the African wars b, 4
tribe OF negroes, ana WAS sold 10 n MARYLAND shaver
III the NcrS spot where the new ministers daughter
Garnet was born It slave bat now goes back a.
Minister to the land whore his ancestors were sold