Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-10-02

SAM more:
Sail on, sail on, o Ship of State,
Sail on o Union, strong and great,
Humanity with all its fears,
With all its hopes of future years,
Is hanging bresthless on thy fate.
We know what master laid thy keel,
What workmen wrou sht thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast and sail and rope,
What anvils rang, what hammers nestr
In what forge and what heat
Here shaped the anchors Of thy hope.
Fear not each sudden sound and shock;
IT'S of the wave. and not the rock.
It's but the tapping of the sail,
And not rent made by the gale!
In spite of rocks and tempest's roar,
In spite of false lights on the shore,
Sail OF, nor fear to breast the sea
Oar hearts, our hopes, are all with thee;
Oar hearts, our hopes, cur prayers. our
tears
Our faith triumphant DER our fears,
Are all with thee, are hll with then
But my brethren, President Garfield
will have died in vain unless, above these
more evident results of good and blessing,
| the people of this land awake to see in our
| body polite the center evil OF all evils
! which created this wretch, Guiteau, and
! shot the fatal ball.
| regard the Presidents untimely taking
| eff as the legitimate outcome Of the corropt
and Ubiquitous system of our American
politics President Garfield was q sacrifice,
q cruel, outright sacrifice to the stupen-
dous American plumber system. What
else can be expected than corruption, occs-
! sionai assassination, horror and shame in
| country where 100000 offices, with their
T. millions of money Of salary, and teupia-
tions and rings are every four years the
strife of the people and the merchagd disc of
the market place?
Guiteau was American born and Ameri>
can reared, no Russian nihilst, no French or
German communist was he, but profess
SIGNAL Ctlce-Seeker and a professional spoiis
| man. In that capacity ne was in Washing
| ton; In that capacity, on that fatal July
morning, in That depot; in that capacity he
loaded that pistol and sped that bullet to
the seat OF life; a professional, truly or-
daIned spokesman, the legitimate, sponta
neous, criminal ou-groWth of our gigantic.
corrupt national patronage system. o
Garfield, honored, trusted. beloved in thy
prime fallen on the thres hhold of thy
greatness and service and fame fallen On
their braided hands the people carrying
thee in silence and tears to thy grave
GuiGeau killed thee? Yes Mol Before
high heaven, the nation killed thee
Thousands Of invisible hands shared that
|, madnian's guilt, ard st0adied the aim IS he
fred2 Ga the altar of orr national politi-
sal corruption CARTEL laid down his life
ss much as though he had laid it down on
the high fields Of bsttle in defense of tho
flag. But for Americas colossal spells eys
| tenn, Guiteau had not been, and but fol
Gulteau, that venerable mother in Ohio
had not been in sgony, nor that D.
: goiic wife in WIDOWS weeds, nor this 81 ole
) OF woe on these holy walls, nor this shat
OF f)wers D. oxen in twain, symbol Of t
beautifui life riven, nor this broad LAND
covered from sea to sea with dEapery enc
gloom.
We Ioath the wretch who did the deed
TIE world loathes him. He has not soil
tary friend or sy paLhizer en- the face O
the giobe-not one. Let no violence spill
his poisonous blood. In The majesty o
law and justice let him be tried and sen
: fenced and executed and forgotten. Blu
. let us never forget the most solemn
lesson believe God in his judgment anC
mercy would impress on the American
people. that thousands, yea. hundred
3 OF thousands share Guiteau's RESPONSE
t bility and guilt, and that thousand
Of Guiteaus are possible under orr presen
I existing system of office aud spoils, anC
that no President is safe SO long as Ameri
can politics remain corrupt in principle
and practice through and through as the,
are 10 day; and if the iniquities OF thes
: things can be seen and felt by the people
J, | and our VIII lie political spirit and organi
!, cation and civil service be reformed, Pres
i ideHt Garfield will rot have died Ia vain
4 Ie Statesmen of America, who guide GU
Il counsels and shape our policies, and y
II legislators who construct our laws. ye pa
0 triot countTymen of the fallen dead, shell
, ! il not be done that this man, so CREST at
y good, beloved by US all and beloved by
e sorrowing world, shall not have died i
I vain. "Oh, cursed love of gold, VIVA
y dost thou not compel mortal man to do,
g cried the old Roman poet, Virgil. 200
. years ago! "Oh. cursed love Of office an
{ spoils. " we'll may we al exciaim, thou h q:
Il stricken the heart Of the nation. thou has
: turned cur whole happy lard into on
IS wide scene of desoiaton and anguish!
= 10 morrow in the beautiful city {
If Cleveland, Ohio, in sight of the blue water
d of Erie, in the Stats Of his birth and esrl
d struggles and trlumps. and which l0ade
n him with its trusts and its honor
"a Garfield will be buried. Proud and en-
II wed, The State to have given him birth
! Proud AMI envied, the State TO have hi
!: dust TO ming lie forever in the mould of it
i sell Soft fall the dirgs of the waves o
4 that lakeside tomorrow. and soft sigh tn
;, breeze through the cemetery trees
lie levelaDd to morrow. On his bier plac
r the fl g OF the Republic for he was Z
II Austrian and a patriot, and over MS gray
l. heap the laurel and the Ivy, and OF whites
v lowers the cross and the ancho- and tn
e, own for he was Christian in faith an
d hope, and has passed into the in
,s N rtaity of earth and the skies. Arotbt
:, s4cred shrine is added to Americas ho
= places, and during the coming ages thou
u sands, yea. millions will visit that LAX,
/ i sldeCemetery TO recall the virtues and sci
"a vices and ren0wn Of the martyr Presiden
% to pay their patriot reverence and she
al patriot tears. And so forever will lives
6 history, song and story the man great al
a blessed whom we mourn, and nom Eh
lie VINO world nOurns and abound who;
i ave We bow in ASS mcled homage, sea
" tering cur flowers OF tender affection an
r. otfering our tribute of praise and venerd
g ton.
If Lead on. the pageant; sad and slow
0 As bafts an uDivers Al woe,
20 Let The long, long procession go,
o And let the sorrowiBg crowd about it grow
And lie. toe lneurnlu martial music blow
=, The last great President is low.
ID Mourn for to US he seems the last,
i'd Remem boring all his greatness in the pas
ID o, friends, our chief State oracle is mute
lie Mourn for the man of long endurin
at blood
n Whole in himself-a common good.
~ Mourn for the man of amplest influence,
:, Yet cleanest of ambition crime;
- Oar greatest, yet with least pretenss--