Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-31
GARFIELD.
Beautiful and Eloquent Tribute to
His Memory.
Eulogy Delivered, Last Night, by Senator
George F. Hoar, Of Massaehus-
etts, at Worcester, on the
Canal Boy,
SOLDIER, LEGISLATOR, PRESIDENT

THE eulogy was delivered by Senator
Hoar, by invitation of the City Council, in
Mechanics Hall, which was filled to over
flowing. Mayor Kelly presided. Among
those on the platform were Gov. Long
Chief Justice Gray, and Justice Devens. Of
the Supreme Court, Judge Nelson, OF the
United States Court, Justice Knowlton, OF
the Superior Court, and many influential
citizens.
WORCESTER, Mass. December 30.-Senator
Hoar tonight delivered a eulogy on Presi'
dent Garfield. He said: should indulge
myself in strange delusion if hoped to
say anything of President Garfield which is
not already we'll known to his country
men; or to add further, honor to man
to which the judgment Of the world, with
marvellous unanimity has already assigned
its place.
The Public Sorrow
and love have found utterance, if not
adequate, yet such speech,
and silence, and funeral rite, and
stately procession, and prayers. and tears
could give. On the 18th day OF September,
the day of the funeral, n common feeling
stirred mankind as never before in history.
That mysterious law, by which in one great
audience, every emotion is multiplied in
caCn hedit ny syHhI"s'J Wv" WIZ N'
laid its spell on
Universal Humanity.
At the touch which makes the whole
world kim" all the barriers of rank, or
party, or State, or nation disappeared. His
own Ohio. seat of his birth and his
burial, New England, from whose
loins came the sturdy race
from which he descended, and whose
college gave him his educacion, had no
claim, no prominence in sorrow. From the
farthest south comes the voice Of mourning
for the soldier of the Union. Over the
fsherman's hut and frontiersman's cabin
is spread gloom, because the White House
is desolate. The son OF the poor widow is
dead, and the palace and the castle are in
tears. As the humble Cqmbellite disciple
is born to his long home, the music OF the
requiem fills the Cathedral arches, and
domes of the ancient synagogues. On the
coffin of
a queen lays her wreath. As the bier is
lifted. word comes from beneath the sea
that the nations of the earth are rising and
bowling their heads. From many climes,
in many languages, they Join in their sol
emn voices.
This is no blind and sudden emotion,
gathering and breaking like wave. 1t is
the mourning Of mankind for great char
acter already perfectly known and famil-
lar.
The orator then sketched, in vivid words,
the race from which Gen: Garfield descend
ed, his birth, his boy hood. his early strug-
giles, his manly character and heroism
under reverscS, and the more peaceful days
of his married life. He then passed in
rapid review, the incidents Of his public
life, his career in Congress and on the
tented field, his election 10 the Senate,
while yet Congressman, and to the Presi-
dency while still Senator, and then con-
tinued:
When Gen. Garfield took the oath OF
office as President, he seemed to those who
knew him best, though in his 50th year,
still in the prime of splendid and vigor-
nminisEf qaf6 H and then IN some former
place of service, an old age like that of
Adams, who in variety OF equipment,
alone Of our Presidents he resembled.
But he was called to sublimcr destiny.
The honors paid to Garfield are the protest
of a better age ana bettergeneration against
the
Vulgar Heroism
of the past. Go through their mausoleums,
and under their triumpbal arches, and see
how the names inscribed there shrink and
shriyel compared with that of this Chris
tian soldier. whose chiefest virtues, after
all, are of the firesde and family circle,
and of the dying bed. Here the hero OF
America,beeOmeS the hero
OF Humanity.
Let us not boast at the funeral Of our
dead Such temper would he doubly
odous in the presence of such expressions
of hearty sympathy from Governments Of
every form. But we should he unfaithful
to ourselves if, in asking for this man a
place in the worlds gallery OF illustrious
names we did not declare that we offer
him as an example of the
Products OF Freedom.
Is not that country worth dying for whose
peasantry are Of such a strain? Is not that
constitution worth standing by under
whose forms of freedom calls such men 70
her high places? Is not the Union worth
saving which gives all Of us the property
of countrymen in such fame?