The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-07-06

hands and hearts, and we feel that TO this
great crime, like to tina, OF treason, has
been added an immedieable personal in-
Jury TO each one OF US. At such a time
the deepest depths Of our patriotism are
aroused, and we are convinced as never
before how we and our country are one.
Party feeling Is hushed; sections are
forgotten; creeds become religion, and
we bow in humble acknowledgment
and confess that there Is a God who
rules over nations as among men, and that
next TO him In our allegiance there Is an
undivided and indiyisIble eountry-the
source Of our safety, peace, and Joy.
Mingled with this lofty and heroic senti-
ment comes a gentle but none the less ex-
alted feeling OF sympathy for the sufferer.
We have put him in this place OF response
bility and danger, and declared that, With
out armor. he is safe-safe 0Y virtue OF our
plighted faith and affections. When he is
insidiousIy wounded we hurry, not only TO
avenge the crime. but we give TO him and
his our tenderest sympathy and love.
This we Virgiuians do tonight. We do so
the more gladly, not only because President
Garfield is our ruler and has been wounded
as such, hui because he is man Of high
accomplishments and gifts, has borne his
his manly, quiet ways.
Ex.MAYOR KELLEY.
At the conclusion OF his eloquent and
feeling address, which was applauded
number OF times, Hon. Anthony NJ. Kelley,
rising, said:
Fellow. Citizens, - Eleven years have
passed since | stood before YOU in the
shadow OF this venerable building to bewail
which convenes us tonight. Then we
gathered to mourn the death OF many now
we meet TO sympathize in the peril of one.
Then with streaming eyes and trembling
hands we lifted the pail from the pale faces
OF our own honored and trusted and be-
leved; now we stind to deplore and de-
nounce the blow at the life OF one upon
whose face few Of us have ever looked, or,
it may be, ever Sball-a citizen OF another
Commonwealth and a statesman whose
aspirations few brief months ago the great
majority OF this audience were opposing
with passionate yehemence. And yet / do
but simple justice to your feelings and mine
when | claim that something OF the spirit
of that memorable gathering of 1870 per-
vades every heart in this assembage.
Here under the splendOrs OF this mid
summer night | salute the august genus OF
ordered American liberty, which makes 1t
possible that we should forget the candidate
in the magistrate, and to forget the magis-
trate in the fellow. citizen as the people OF
our city, Of our State, OF our South, do to-
night-tbeir hearts gong out with tender
and sollcitous sympathy towards their
stricken cOuntryman, with no thought but
Of his danger.
The strife is far behind rs nOw-its echoes
have long since died in silence; even the
conflicts OF a week ago are buried and for
gotten. Only pace, indeed, divides Us
from them; but that pace is filled 10y
couch OF suffering, bravely borne by pale
face; by the mutilated form OF an innocent
man on the edge Of cruel death; by the
tears Of children, by the dumb agony OF
martyr wife; and no power nor urging can
make US look beyond tonight.
We halt, more nOiseless than the pale
watchers, and ask them to let us bear part
Of their dread burden; 10 tighten with our
kindliest sympathies their gloom and his;
to encourage, il we may, the brave soul OF
the smitten President that he may repIenish
the fountain OF his fortitude from the affec-
ton that wells up in every quarter from the
hearts of all this people.
Sir, feeling that | voice a sentiment to
conscious how inadequltely phrase it, |
offer for the consideration OF this meeting
this message TO the President.
THE ADDRESS TO PRESIDENT GARFIELD.
In conclusion be offered q paper, which
he remarked was rather personal address
from the citizens OF Richmond to the stricG-
en- President than a series Of formal resoIu-
tions. This address, observed Mr.. Kelley,
is subject to the correction OF this great au-
dence. 1t was net corrected, and being
submitted by the president to the meeting,
was adopted unanimously, as follows:
To the President Of the United States
The people Of the citv OF Richmond here
spontaneously gathered, desire to unite
with their connrrymen Of Virginia and OF
all the States, and with the just and good
of every nation, in giving expression to
their horror at the dastardly and murderous
assault which now imperils your life. They
are filed with amaZement and with pro-
found humiliation that crime so atrociOus
and unprovoked should be possible in our
free country, and III this dav OF peace, pros
perity, and growing concord among our peo-
pie, and as American citizens, jealous OF their
country's reputation, they have assembled
here by a common impulse to record their
grief and shame that the President OF the
United States should thus be smilten
down.
Such blow gives not only personal
wound: it is an assault on good govern
ment, a menace TO public peace, an attack
on social order, stain on liberty, in whose
presence political differences fade and Sec
tional srfes are an impertinence.
SO feeling and remembering only that we
are your fellow citizens, we beg 10 tender |
you our sincere sympathy; and we offer to
Him I'm whose hands are the lives Of all our |
feryent prayer that this trembling life may |
long be spared, that your recovery may be |
speedy and complete, and that no trace or
OF this cowardly crime may !
remain with you save that quickeped sense |
of duty and that higher resolve TO be faith
fu. TO its behestS which the dread peril that !
confroats you may well awaken in the most |
patriotic breast.
We desire also to present our affectiOnate
sympathy to your heroic wife and dOubly-
,mtten mother, and 10 all whom kinsbip
draws about you i'm this solemn hour as
,uring them OF our hope and prayer that
by moment the current may set
With stronger and ever unebbing flow to-
wards your perfect restoration.
ReS0tUed, That the chairman Of this
meeting forward this address to the Presi-
lent forthwith in such form as to him may
eem most appropriate.
CLOSING ADDRESS BY DR.. HOGE.
Rev. DR.. Nj. d. HOge, who had been an.
icpated by q voice in the meeting in Sec
,nding the adoption OF the address, spoke
With great feeling and effect, as follows:
EelloY CltiZens,-YOu have anticipated