The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1881-10-12
JlNES ABRAN GARFIELD

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Memorial Address Delivered at
Fort Street Church,
Oct. 9Th, 1881,
BY J. A. CRUzAN.
AMERICANS, REPRESENTATIVES OF oTHEI
NATIONS, FRIENDS, BROTHERS flor one
touch Of pity makes the whole world KIN
At last the stroke SO long dreaded ha;
fallen. JAMES A GARFIELD, 10Th President
OF the United States, is dead But we've
lost more than a more Presidest-that were
small loss indeed, and easily replaced By
another man standing for moment witt
uplifted hand. Death has taken from III
true soldier, conscientious statesman
a self-denying patriot, Christian gentle
man. and a model man in every relation Of
life. And to every American there is
still nearer. more heart-touching sense Of
loss: During these awful days anc
months. since the I'd of July, when the
1niscreant's bullet did its dreadful work
a sense of kinship for the sufferer has
grown into the hearts of fifty millions OF
Americans. We've lost a dear friend, 6
brother. as well as a ruler. And so, this
seems a time for tears, and not for words
Weep FOR the word Is spoken
Mourn fJt the knell il toed-
The nasier-chord Is broken
And the mAster-hand il cold.
The warriors deeds are over.
4 Nation mourns her Chiefi
All patriot hearts are riven,
All bosoms swell with grief
Wis fame had spread around him
II comprised ali the land;
And cheered by every hand.
He came 10 win fresh laurels,
But fate was In their breath,
And turned his march OF triumph
Into dirge OF death.
30. all that knew him loved him,
For with has noble mind
He bore himself 80 mcekly.
Hir heart II kind
Hes gone but yet behind nm
He leaves glorious name;
Death cannot blight his laurels,
Nor time inspire his fame
The simple story of his life is so elo-
ouent, so truly American, that no country
man Of JAMES A. GARFIELD ever tires at Its
FREQUENT repetition. Born in 1881, the
year 1910 finds him an uncouth orphan
bow struggling along the prosaic dead
level of life on farm; few years later
we see him enduring the hardshIps and
drudgerv of a canal-boatman's experience;
at eighteen wears OF age an ambitions
student in an academy; the next year a
country school teacher, earning money to
continue his studies; at twenty-three a
hard working student in Williams Coll
lege: four years later college graduate,
and a Professor in College, struggling
against debts occurred in educating HIM
self; at the age of twenty-eight College,
President and a State Senator; in 1861
then only twenty-nine, a man Of influence
throughout his State; in 1851 Colonel of
the And Ohio Infantry, commander of a.
brigade, driving forward with resistless
energy into Eastern Kentucky, and
against superior numbers winning the first
noted battle in the West; in 1862 Brig
adler General and Chief of staff to Gen.
Rosecrans, Commander of the Army OF
the Cumberland; then the same year a
Major General; in 1863 reluctantly leav-
ing the army to take his seat IN Congress
as the successor of Joshua X. Giddlngs;
reelected eight times, almost without OPP
position in his own party, and from the
first taking the position OF an acknowl-
edged leader in Congress; IN 1850, recelv
ing, unsought, the unanimous nomination
by his party for United States Senator,
and a triumphant election; in the same
year. while earnestly working for the
nomination of another, made against his
protest, the standard bearer of the Repub-
iican party, and elected President of the
United States. How marvellous this bare
outline of his life seems as we recount il
to-day In what other land than Amer
lea is such a success possible
And vet this eminently successful and
tvpical American life was no accident. 1t
rested on solid foundations. We must
look within man. and not without him,
for the secret of success. The man him
self. and not his circumstances or sur
roundings shape his future. His aspira-
tons, his energy, his courage, his
strength of will-these are what deter
mine his success or failure.
The traits of that character which the
world has learned to revere, and which
every American loves, appeared early IN
JAMES A. GARFIELD. Perseverance, mental
power. truthfulness, and generosity of
nature-these were what made him great.
Possessing these qualities, in America, he
could not fail of becoming marked man
and winning distinction. He was from
the people and Of the people, a natural
product of our system of Government and
national life.
JAMES A. GARFIELD simply reaped the
harvest which his own Woodworking hands
sowed. The only genius he had was a
genius for good, plain, honest, hard work.
This was the "open secret of his marvel
Gus success He became the grand man
he was because nature gave him a strong
mind in a strong body, and he developed
and used this endowment. With untiring
patience and industry he fitted himself foI
usefulness. On the brain and Drawn OF
the West he grated the culture and
learning of the East, and then used these fol
country, for humanity, for God.
Pure and courageous as boy; ambi-
tious and self-reliant as young man; en-
thusiastic and painstaEing as a teacher
tireless and brave as a soldier; bold and
aggressive, but even-tempered and Just as
a Congressional leader; broad and com
prehensive, trusting to principle and right
and scorning the temporary success Won
Sy tricks of demagogues, as statesman
never owing machine" but winning
success by ability, by devotion to the pub
lie good, and by his straight forward
honesty, as q politician; as President
sorely tried, but bearing himself with
such patience, tirmness and wisdom that the
Nation soon saw that the right man was IL
the right place-that the man whom they
had made First Citizen was just, patriotic
broad and liberal in his judgment and
firm as q rock, the President of the whole
Nation and not of a section, or political
marty: as man and citizen he was Sc