The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-30
THRPRRsIpENT AND HIS PEOPLE

All dsy yesterday, on the day previous
and on Saturday, numbers of persons
throu Shous this city, democrats and republi
cam, rich and POOR, male ond female, visited
the HERALD office in jnlensest esgerness ia
read the lste.t bulletins and learn by read.
ing, and rereadBg the last received par
ticulars from the very sick president, whose
critical condition now makes every bosom a
home that sorrow doth inhabi.. Every at
tache of this paper BIS lie walked
his rounds was stopped hero and there
and every ROW and then by parties solicitous
to know "tho very latest" A sympathy so
universal in its extent, 50 unanimous in its
unstrained quality We have rarely known to
exist for anyone not Of close personal friend.
ship or kith aud kin. We doubt if II people
incurred more when the black winged mes,
senger of death crept over the vital forces Of
the father Of his country than they grove to-
day O. % bare thought of Garfield dead.
The vi, .mosphere has seemed saturated
Some near one and sons dear one" was
lying nigh unto death. Not feeling has
found lodgment in the breast of public man
or private citizen, northman or soutlman
Of any other character than such IS was
boiiomed on homes! hope tor the tinal tri-
umph of a man who has lain on ihe led of
affection and pain for wesrisome weeks in
tho very face of the king of terrOrs; for
manly man who when he received his martyr
wound because in power through his peoples
trust refused to appoint bad man 10 prom
nent position, bore it as a hero that braves
the battles blast when bullets thickest
fly, and has borne his paiR with patience and
anerve that adds lustre 10 even the chief head
OF chivslrous nation. In all this torture
of body and anguish OF mind, no expression
has escaped hi' lips that admirlng friends
would have recalled ss being unworthy OF
their exalted choice not murmurng word
from the ambitious toiler that had worked
his way up from the barge boat on the canal
to the White House in Washington, the ex-
ecutve seat of the country not d word of
censure nor reproving phrase against even
his would-be murderer. This ia of
the conduct and these are of the things
that have fastened James A. Garfield, the
brave and courlly gentleman and the hon.
ored president, deep down into the affections
of q people that admire true courage and of a
civilized world that assesses the proper value
upon the quiet dignity Of character that
under tho pulssting pressure OK every irrits-
ton preserves its poise aud equilibrium.
That IN uneasy feeling ss 10 the
possible consequences of his death does
exist, is not 10 bo gainssid, but that il IS not
an ingredient in tho general wish for bis
recovery is as positively and solidly true ss
that the nations grief is no surface grief for
the brave soul that, when told DO "hsd one
chance 10 i've" responded "wcll 7 will take
that one" That the crisis in til. ate of so
exemplary character will soon close with
life at The Iopmost Nast, aud the nations
heart, now at half mast, DO unfurloi in Joy
that he did indeed pull through Nil right"
is a sentiment we are satisfied breathes
throughout all this sympsthzirg section.