Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-10-06

row, and looking from the Dead of
to-day, backward, oyer, well nigh, q
quarter of century of HE life, full
Of ardent endeavor, for the achieve
ments of his high and noble ambi-
tions his complete and romantic
successes; his pure and lovable life,
full of all virtues and manly graces,
and all that he hath wrought for his
kind and his country, in the present,
and for the future, and grasping, in
the full measure of all, and the IN
heritance he has lefs the land he
loved; indeed, it can be no wonder
that, out of the excess of the Nations
grief, at his death, the wheels Of q
Nations transportation stand still,
and the flags, of its commerce, are
furled mo wonder that the voices
of the money changers, are hushed
a1d the hum of traffic is silenced =
that ''the plough stands still, in the
field Of promise and, even, the
grinding At the mills, is low, and
fifty millions Of people are weeping
because their beloved child twas, but
is not
Fellow-cltizens: Do We remember,
that upon no soil under the whole
heavens that under the institutions
Of no government on which the sun
shines; was or is q Garfield, with his
full and rounded manhood and tri-
umphs, q possibility, save alone,
American soil ;-American institu-
tions! Should not the young remem-
ber, that in this land under our flag,
their fortune-the fortune of cvery-
one, may parallel that Of the dead
statesman, if he but Wills it. The
duty Of all, to our country is, 80 to
will, go to achieve! Here everyone is
and must be, the architect of his own
fortune, and that fortune should be
grand and glorious!
Garfield, was self-made mani He
compassed the great ends to which
he attained, by the inherent force of
his own character, and mind, and
genius,-but all along, his life did
he travel and toll quite alone? Were
there no ministering spirits; no
guardian angels, close 10 him, to
cheer,-to comfort,-to inspire,-to
guide! The telegraph tells me, that
the hundreds of thousands, who will
attend the funeral of the Nations
dead to-day at Cleveland, will see,
near his csffin. ladder 1.-TWO posts,
supporting eight steps on rounds, one
above another, ornamented, aye,
covered, with rare and delicate fow-
ers, by the loving aid gentle hands
of young ladies and dictated, by the
most exquisite taste; on the lower
round, is written, in flowers, s'canal,"
on the others above-Legislature-
College General Congress SEN
ate on the last President" indi-
eating, has pro- -ess upward,-step
by step,--from lis humble beginning,
to the pround position, where death
found him! Truly, this is a beautiful
asand s,d spagestiye biography! A mag
nificent floral hissSe iisssSeglyphicl But did
not they, who made it, sbuisss=4ge' WISE
than they knew!
Are there not now. two historic
characters, of singular puri-
ty of character,-vigor Of intellect
excellence Of tastes,-profundity Of
judgment, and wealth of love, who,
from his youth, have stood on either
side of the dead Caesar,-strong in
their common love for, and faith in
him, to sustain him? Even as the
posts, in the allegory, support the
rounds, up which the Hero climbed,
so has not the mother and wife, sus-
tanned, perhaps prompted, and aided
the Son and Husband, in every step
forward and upward, that he has
taken?
would forget the
"Deep damnation
OF his taking OF"
il l could, but / cannot forget, the
heroic struggle, with the only enemy
he ever had-the common enemy OF
all-Death !-how the wife-Lucretia,
at the bedside stood, watch and ward,
over the Husband, and when science,
in the estimate of its professors, had
exhausted its healing or saving pow
er. and they would abandon the de.
fences, she sent them back TO their
post of duty, there to stand, until
Death should fully raise its banner,
over all the Notifications of life,-
and the aged mother, at Mentor, in
close communion, with the God Of
her old age, in prayer, that her boy
her Benjamin, might be spared to
her! and how the persistence Of each
and both, staid the hand Of Death,
for many days.
May not the same devotion and
heroism of the wife, and opportunities
of the mother, been. the guardian
angels-the ministering spirits, upon
whose wings, as upon eagles, he
made his grand,-romantic ascension
in life? At least true it is, that their
love and sympathy have strewn his
pathway, with flowers, richer,-
rarer,-costlier, than ever bloomed
in garden, since Eden, or could grow
in Royal Conservatory, filing the
atmosphere, in which he lived, with
aroma, sweet as breath of angels!
Garfield's veneration for his mother,
and chivalric love and devotion TO his,
now historical, wife, is o tribute to
them, richer than he Kingdoms oi
the Earth,-apd of all the Jewels in
the Crown he shall wear, will be the
richest,-the clearest and most con.
spicuous!
The President-the citizen--the
son--the llasband--the father 10 dead
"His sun set whilst It was ye,
noon" Yet his life-his toil-hi.
virtues, his greatness, s,-he, himself,
with his wife and mother, will 20 into
American history,--into the his.
tory of the world, and no page oI
which, will be brighter, than that
occupied by him and hisl
In view of all we have seen ant
heard since the Presidents death
Of his life, and moral character-o
the love Of the American people TO
him, and the universal grief at hil
loss-may not say, - they lay tn,
"tired" President to his eternal rest
using his own words .over the bod,
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