The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-10-19
An Eloquent Tribute to the Late
President.

At recent ceremonies in Jefferson
vile, Ind, Henry Watterson. a promi-
nent Democrat of the Southern type,
delivered the following eloquent tribute
to the dead President: -t
''1 knew him we'll knew him, and know
now that loved him. He was a man of an
ample soul. with the strength of a giant the
courage of a lion and the heart of dove.
Never lived a man who yearned for the ap-
proval OF his fellow-men, who felt their anger
nsrer fesue Paus dea shS so Se s
things to all men Nor did ever the character
he was blameless, yigilant, sober, of good be-
havior, apt TO teach, not given to filthy lucre.
relatives and friends in which he lived viii
ever know how certain dismal, though In
truth, trivial, episode in his career cut him to
the soul. Born a poor man. son, TO live and
die q poor man, with opportunities unbound
cd for public piliage. with licensed robbery
means to maintain himself, his wife and his
little ones with decency and comfort, to bs
He is gone now, and before he went he had
outlived the wounds which party friends
honor, and mayhap to-day somewhere among
the stars he looks down upon the world and
sees at last how false, how sordid, how
those in whose way he stood. It is
q pleasure to me to reflect, amid these
mine gratified him at a moment when he suf-
ferec most-not in the last campaign, for 1t
tafed theneaway back, when no vision of the
Presidency had crossed the disk of his ambt-
ton, and when the cruelest blows were struck
remember the last time saw him. 1t wss an
aIlnight session of the House, when, in com
Randall Gibson, OF Louisiana and Randolph
Tucker Of Virginia, we took possession of the
US later, and buried ali chickering's and jars in
happy forgetfulness of section and party. /
do well remember how buoyant he was that
In nar1frf and In,
full of suggestion, quick in repartee, unaf-
footed and genial ever, how delighted to lay
again, and how 10th he was with the rest to
recross the narrow confines which separate
the real and ideal and 70 descend to the black
to do another deed of shame, and, Re-
cSief, % he had no truer fTiends than % the brill brill
liant Virginian whom he loved like brother,
and the eminent Louisianian whose counsels
he habitually sought L refer to an incident,
unimportant In itself, to illustrate character
which unfolded to the knowledse of the world
admiration and love of mankind. All know
ne was man of spotless integrity, who might
have been rich by single detection, but who
died poor, who broadened and rose to height
with each rise in fortune, who was not less q
taees, aud VINO. not yet fifty, leaves as price
less heritage to his countrymen the example
heart art may be employed S to the T glory f Of God God
and the uses by one who makes all things
subordinate to the development of the good
within him, all these points we think togeth-
upon common ground. We shall separate and
go hence, and each shall take his way. Inter-
ests shall clash, beliefs shall jar, party spirit
shall lift its horrid head and interpose to chill
condition of our being. We are mortal, and
we live in a free land. Out of discussion and
dissension ends are shaped, we rough hew-
sions come which remind us that we
have a countryland are countrymen. which
tell us we are people bound together by
many kindred ties. No matter for our quar-
relss they will pass away. No matter for our
day we were at war, one with the other The
war is over. But yesterday we were arrayed
IN angry party conflict Behold how its pas
| sions sleep in the grave with Garfield. am
| him, and in his memory and honor, to talk
| OF our country. He was its Chief Magistrate,
our President representative or things COM
mon to US all. stricken down in the fullness
| sasstnation. He fell like a martyr. He suf-
tered like a hero. He died ike a saint Be
his grave ever and aye q resting-place for the
| people and from the sods that burst thereon
peace and love for all the peoples. Citizens,
the flag that waves over US was his flag, and
IL Is our flag. Soldiers standing beneath that
flag and in this armed fortress of the repub-
| 1t is my flag. THANK God, and shall teach
my children to thank God, that Ii did not go
down beneath the fragments of a divided
| country, but that it floats to day, though at
| assuring and reassuring us that, though the
| heart that conceived the words lie cold, and
the lips that uttered them be dumb" God
reigns, and the Government at Washington
still lives"