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

4 Nation mOurns for its dead to-day
Profound sorrow dwells throughout tn,
land. The grief and sympathy felt anG
expressed by the people of the Unitet
States is universal. The whole civil
lied world unite with us in rendering
words of coincidence to the bereaved
family of the departed. To-day has
been set apart by the proclamation OF
the President of the United States as a
day OF d" humiliation and mourning"
and by the Governor of this State re-
IueSting ell citizens s" to abstain from
secular employments and unite in ap-
prOpriate funeral ceremonies as tribute
to the name and memory of the illus
trious dead, and pray earnestly for the
peace and safety of our country and it's
government
James Abram Garfield, whose mortal
remains are now being lowered in the
dust at Lake View Cemetery, in the
city of Cleveland, and whose immortal
spirit has winged its flight and de
parted from earth to the unknown
world, was born in the month of No
vember, 1881, in the wilderness of the
Western Reserve, in the State of Ohio
His early life was marked by many
and bitter privations. There in the
land of free labor he grew to mans
estate, struggling in manual toll,
which gave to him the energy, and in
after years the strength to battle with
the contests of the world His life is a
striking example that poverty and
want, suffering and privation do not |
prevent the growth of goodness or re-
tard the achievements of greatness. |
His father died when he was two years
old. In his early life, as well as in
Inaturer years, he respected, loved and |
revered his mother, and determined
tor her sake, as well as his own, to
make a record for himself of which she
would not be ashamed. He embraced
every opportunity for study and became
to receive a classical educa-
ton. At the age of % he entered Will
Hams College, and two years thereafter
he graduated with becoming honOrs.
He then commenced teaching school j
and was engaged for some time in
as minister Of the gospel.
In 1857 he was elected President of the {
College at Hiram, Ohio. He there met
and, in 1858, married Miss Lucretia :
Rudolph, who in all the subsequent and |
trying years of his life proved herself
I true and faithful companion and wife. {
In 1859 he was elected a State Senator. I
In 1860 he was admitted to practice &
aW. In 1861 he was appointed a S
member of Governor Dennison's staff, '
md to him was assigned the important S
luty of assisting in organizing troops /
or the war. He was, during the same 4
7ear, appointed Colonel Of the Forty a
econd Ohio Regiment and entered into f
ctive service. He was afterward ap- t
,ointed Chief of General Rosecrans' a
taft, and in 1868, " for gallant and a
neritorious services at the battle of /
he was promoted to a II
Iajor- -Generalship of Volunteers. Prior A
0 that time he had been chosen to a "
ew field of duty. His constituents in 81
he Nineteenth Ohio Congressional Dis il
rict had elected him as their repre- il
OhGAsA'S w Viz iii oClS5 Atil SoASoA CCos ~
IN the 5th of December, 1868, at the n
arnest request Of President Lincoln he ii
esigned his commission in the army G.
nd took his seat in Congress. He was t.
hereafter regularly returned from the lo
anne district, and served as Congress v
lau until 1880, a period of seventeen h
years, when he was elected CT
, the Senate of the United States. p
In quiet manner he first sought to P
ain a knowledge of the rules and p
lethod of transacting business in Con- e.
ress. Here, as in the earlier period of s.
is life, he applied himself to hard g
'ork. His assiduous labors in the OF
cid Of official duty are worthy of emu a.
ltion. It was this unceasing, patient in
nd vigilant toll which enabled him in as
few years to take front rank as a b.
oeaker and debater, and finally raised tt
i'm to the position of a leader on the hi
DOR of, Congress in the advocacy of the h
rinciples Of the Republican party, to Iii