Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-24

"Sweet are the uses of adversely"
Families long rent by discord have been
united by some common domestic calamity.
So falls on the discordant parties of this ma
ton the affection of their hero. Here Re-
publicans and Democrats clasp hands in an
guish as they join in one ministry. Here
brothers blood, yelling up from throbbing
hearts, beats with quickened pulse the sweet
music of restored fraternal love. Disaster
and sickness have done what prosperity and
health never did They have broken down
the dividing wall and scattered the mists of
partisan suspicion. The people feel the
priceless worth of q common country. The
air is alive with cries of grief and words of
loving consolation from all lips as though a
dear friend lay ON a bed of suffering. The
Republic of Two Oceans sends TO the sick
chamber fruits from Florida, ices from
Alaska, roses and lilies from everywhere.
Light shines in the darkness. 1t shows
how strong hold pure and exalted
soul, a noble nature has upon the
esteem of the people. It proves
also the veneration they have for
the Presidential office. 1t was not to be ex-
pected that Garfield, elected by one party
and only four months in Office, should WIN
at once universal popularity. This grand
outburst of love and sympathy signifies not
only Garfeld's personal worth and magnet
ism, but also the universal reverence In
which his high Office is held. To all mallg-
nants who may plot the assassination OF
Presidents in future, comes the majestic
warning voice of the republic: "Touch
not the sacred person of the President. The
assassin who assaults his august life out
RACES the sovereignty of the people whose
1 I,,,lx vi IN IofarI hin, ~ This
is the lesson of the hour to all conspirators
and assassins.
A brilliant caviller of late laughed at the
incredible dogmas of faith. But the most
unquestioning faith holds no belief so in
credible as the thought that a life of noblest
capacity and promise, the JOY of its domes-
tic circle and the hope of whole people
may: go out like spent candle into nothing
ness. Does nature heep up pyramid of AL
pine treasures to cap it off with a worthless
pebble, or forge chain of golden causes
to secure q leaden effect? Does her arith-
metic only prove that the sum of all infinite
column of precious lives is minus, and the
equivalent of all the worlds virtue and talent
zero? Then human life is mountain in
labor and three poor blind mice are its off
spring genius, virtue and toll. o, ''most
lame and impotent conclusion " of infinite
labor! When one remembers all the richly
| endowed in heart and mind, who passed in
life's morning through the gateway of the
sunless land, he feels his soul rise in invol-
untary protest against the philosophy which
! teaches that nature creates her richest and
rarest treasures to waste them without q
purpose that she sits like some heartless
Lorelei on the rocks to lure the voyager of
life to cruel and unprovoked destruction.
Well is it for people when some Christian
hero, inspired by the hope of perfect com
pensation and consumation in life to come,
! appears as their leader. His career is o
living epistle indicating and confirming
| their faith. Sophistry cannot srefute, nor
sparkling jest laugh into humiliation his
| enduring virtues. All he touches becomes
stable. The hand of violence may cut him
off, but the government he leaves will stin
live unframed by anarchy or revolution.