Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-10-02

: introduce drama, the conclusion ,
u which we all hope may bring no meas
II ure of shame or misfortune 10 our com
u mon country.
>, The curtain has been rung dow
y upon the first sad scene-the first az
- is closed. The assassin and his vctil
y have been consigned to their respectiv
= places-the one shivering and cowardI
= to the dungeons cell, whose only com
paniOn is his conscience, whose prompt
ings bid him take counsel of his morbit
= fears OF unerring and swift retribution
and whose promised fate is c0ndemna-
ton and the Potter's field, followed by
the execrations of mankind, and Will
!. the hope that in an immortality of in
fanny he may "dwell full in the sight
of Paradise, beholding heaven anC
feeling hell.
The other has been gathered to the
bosom of his fathers in the full fruition
of his hopes, in the midst of his useful
ness, in the meridian Of his glory. He
took his flight from the summit of the
highest pedestal to which the suffrages
Of his fellOw-countrymen could elevate
human solace terminate at the grave"
he would gladly have been upward
borne on a nations Outspread hands,
I" and with the blessings of millions
and the prayers OF millions been COM
mended to the Divine favor" We
know to-day that the tomb has closed
over James A. Garfield, that he has
been fondly laid npon the bosom of his
native State, that he was followed
from the seaside to the place of his
chosen sepulture by sorrowing thou
sands, that his obsequies have been at
tended, not by the pomp and pride and
circumstance of glorious war, but by
the spontaneous outpouring of sympa-
thetic hearts, where the golden sheaf
and civic wreath, the p!owshare and
the pruning hook were rather the sym
bolS of the callings of the cortege than
the implements of sounding war.
We to-day in the far West, in our
cities and hamlets, beneath the folds |
of our draped and dropping flag, and in
the shadows Of our mountains are |
assembled to pay our last tribute of re
spect to the memory of the departed |
victim in this strange tragedy, and to
give some expression, feeble though it
be, to our sympathies and our hopes.
We have intelligence that all over our
from Maine to Mexico. and
from California to the Caroinas, the
people are this day assembled to give
outward and fitting expression to their
utter adherence OF the great crime
which has shocked civilization, and In {
he midst Of profound peace and do ,
nestle tranquility deprived us of our
chief Magistrate, and 10 express those l
ender sentiments of coincidence and {
consolation TO the living which ever
characterize tie true and the brave. t
And who shall say that these mani t
estations do not spring from every |
leart? Who shall say that we are +
nation Of hypocrites: Who shall say c
hat this lesson, though purchased at t
be sacrifice OF precious life and long t
weeks of suffering and anxiety, where I
he victim Of the sacrifice, lowering l
etween life and death, displayed a p
eroism in the struggle for life worthy i
f his hopes of the future, is not freight e
d with good ? Who shall say that Fl
hese scenes which to-day we witness t
he burying of the body of our Presi- "
ent of the United States in a cenotaph b
hat shall embalm it SO long as memory
hall remain Of the loving, the tender t,
nd the true, the husband, the father "
nd the patriot-may not carry us to a Fl
igher plane of prosperity? Though C;
he price be great, may not the divine a.
bject secured be correspondingly valu- "
perpetuity Of our country, fl
,e era of good feeling, the test of the OF
eviction of our fellow-citlzens to our n,
rm Of government, and the manifes- CT
ltion to the world of the stability of til
lr Institutions? ell
May not the second act of this bloody Ii
rama be amid brighter scenes With til
e family of our deceased President, tn
7 the liberality Of his countrymen pro- al
ded at Mentor, the home of his choice, tn
ith all the surroundings which be- G,
me the dignity of his great Office M
it'll the children upon whom his af- gr
ctions and his hopes had centered, sis
ing led along the pathway of learning
I'd OF patriotism by the teachings, the flu
spiration and the devotion of the tn
roic wife and mother his great trust or
lien upon the shoulders of his consti- da
tionai successor, and the government rol
owing onward in its accustomed ca
here, without jar or popular commo- by