The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-09-27


gracefully retired; and then, again, wheI
he went to Chicago to serve the Interest,"
! OF another, when, US know, his own am
, bitiOn was fully satisfied, and he had re
ceiyed that on which his heart was sci, ,anC
looked with more than gladness to patl
! in life for which he thought his entire ed
uCation and culture had prepared him
, When wearied out with every effort t
command majority for any candidate
, the hearts OF that great convention turned
on every side, to James A. Garfield
In spite Of himself, and against every
feeling wish and prayer OF his own hear
this honor was crowded upon him, and th(
nation responded with holy enthusiasm
from one end OF the land to the other; and
in the same honorable way he was elected
tothe chief magistrcy under circumstance
which, notwithstanding the bitterness OI
the party conflict, caused ull hearts OF all
parties not only to acquiesce but to feel
proud in the consciousness that we had d
Chief Magistrate OF whom they need not
be ashamed before the world, and unto
whom they could safely COnAde the desti'
MES ot this mighty nation,
Now, gentlemen, let me say to you
all, those of you occupying great
places OF trust who are here to-lay,
and the mass. OF those who are called
to discharge the responsibilities of citi.
zenShip year by year, the most invaluable
lesson that we leGrn from the life OF our be-
loved departed President is, that not only
is II not Incompatible with success, but II II
the surest means of success to COnsGCrate
heart and life to that which is true and
right and wise above all questions OF mere
poliCy-wedding the soul to truth and
right and to the God Of truth and righteous
ness IN holy wedlOCk never To be dissolved,
! feel first ut this point that We need this
lesson, This great and wOndrOus hnd Of
ours this mighty nation in its marvellous
upward career, with its ever increasing
power, opening its arms 10 receive from
all lands people Of all languages Nnd rcli-
gIOns and all conditions, and hoping that in
the warm embrace Of political brotherhood
to blend them with us; to melt them into u
common mass, SO when melted and run
over again, 1t becomes like the Cornthlan
brass, and in one type OF manhood, thus
incorporating all the various Nations OF the
earth in negrand brotherhood, presenting
before the nHti0Hs Of the world Il spectacle
otfreGdOm and strength, and prosperityand
power beyond anything the world has eyer
known but let INC say that the perma.
neRCe Of the work and III continual enlarge.
ment must depend on our maintaining the
vrtueas well us the intelligence, andmaking
dominant in all the land those principles OF
pure morality thut Jesus Christ has taught
lis. Just rs we cling to that We are safe,
and lust us we forget and lenuvt from that
we proceed toward disaster and riini and
this, now when we see what has been 40
C0mplished in mighty life, IL M Instance
OF the power OF truth and right, which
spreads from h0nrt to heart, from life
TO life and from State to State, and equally
from Nation to Nation, till these pure prin-
Izc his great pnrpose-,so long ago eX'
pressed to us in words Of prophecy
that the kingdoms OF tins world are be:
come the kingdoms OF our God and OF
his Christi 80 that then, over the dead
body Of James. a. Garfield, may nll the
people join hands and swear by the Eternal
God that they will dismiss uIl pnwQthY
purppscscl and love and Wqrshlp pnly the
true and right, and In the Inspiration OF
The grand principles that Jesus Christ
taught us, to realiEc the grand onda OF the
high civilization TO Which Ills word Of
truth and right continually point lls. |
cannot prolong my remarks to any great
extent There are two or three things that
! must say, however, before ! close. There
Is IL voice to the Church IN this death that
cannot nauSo now to spG4k of raFtlpAlgr,
y. PhCrp is tendertr and more awful
voice tlIat speaks to the members Of
tho family to that slCrcd circle,
within Which really his true life
and character were better developed and
more perfectly known than any where else.
Whit words can tell the weight Of anguish
that rests on the hearts and Of those who so
dearly loved him and shared with him The
sweet saHrtI lea q his hQMc, thh, nHre life,
| the genlleness, the kindness and the man:
llNess TINT nerY0ded All his actions and
made hls home Il phNrmlng one Tor lla III.
mates and for all TINT shared IN It's hos;
pitaities. 1t Is OF all this the hardest and
most. grievOus now, that those bound TO
Him by the tenderest ties in hehOne circle
are called to yield to the grave, to hear that
voice Of love no more, Il LOhOld that
manly i0Gm no longer moving in tho
sweet circle OF home, 10 receive no
more the bencdictiOn OF the loving
hand Of the father tllat rested upon, tho
lGHds 0t his children, and commended the
blessings G{ God on them. The dear old
mother, WHO rCall2es here ta.dAy that her
tourscOrG yGars are Nftpr all hut labor and
sorrow, to whom We owe, buck of have
spoken Of the education and trimming that
made him what he was, and who has been
led from that humble home in the wilder.
ness, side by side witllhim III al his eleva.
ton, and assured him Of tho triumph and
gloly thqb came u hIm, step by SIet rs lie
inOllltcl up from high to higher to receive
tho highest honnrS tligt the land could be-
st0w 6ll himl left hohlnd him, lingering
on the shore where he has passed over to
the other side, what words can
express the sympathy that is due to
her or the consolation that Gun strengthen