Morris tribune., 1881-10-20
AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE.
Which the Governor General of Canada
Paid to President Garfield and the People
of the United States.

Which the Governor General of Canada
Paid to President Garfield and the People
of the United States.
Extracts from the address of the marquis of
Lorne at Winnipeg:
1t was most interesting to compare the southern
mountains and prairies with our own and not even
the terrible events which have recently cast so deep
gloom upon our neighbors, as well as ourselves,
could prevent our kinsmen from showing that hos
pitality and courtesy which makes visit to their
country so great a pleasure. Loud applausel
am the more glad TO bear witness to this courtesy
in the presence of the distinguished consul of the
United States, who is your guest this evening. and
who. IN this city, SO honoTably represents his coun-
try [appausel in nothing more than this, that he
has never misrepresented our own Loud ap-
pause.l Like almost all his compatriots who occupy
by the suffrage of their people official positions, he
has recognized that fact which is happily acknowl-
edged by all of standing amongst ourselves that the
interests of the British empire and of the United
States may be advanced side by side without jeal-
ously or friction and that the good of the one is
lnterwoven with the welfare of the other. ICheersl.
Canada has recently shown that sympathy with her
been SC marked throughout all portions of our
empire. She has sorrowed with the sorrow of the
great commonwealth whose chief has been struck
down, in the fullness of his strength in the height
of his usefulness, in the day of universal recogn-
ton of his noble character by the bastard hand of
the tn t,onss assassin; Ma We have felt in this
Gen. Garfelds position and personal worth made
his own and his fellow citizens misfortune a catas-
Iopne IOr all EnglSn speaking races. Inc Dul-
letins telling of his calm and courageous struggle
against cruel and unmerited affection have been
read and discussed by us with as strong an ed
miTatien for the man. and with as tender q senti-
ment for the anxiety and misery of his family ss
they have been awaited and perused in the South.
1t is fitting and good that this should be. We have
with the Americans, not onlya common descent,
but similar position on this continent and like
probable destiny. The community of feeling
reaches beyond the fellowship arising from the per-
sonal interest attaching to the dignity of high Of
fee sustained with honor, and to the reverence
for the tender ties of hearth and home, sacred
though these be, for Canadians and Americans
have each common aim and common ideal.
Though belonging to very different political schools
and preferring to advance by very different paths
we both desire to live in land of perfect liberty
loud cheers) When the order which ensures
freedom is desecrated by the cowsrdly rancour of
the murderer, or by the tyranny of faction the blow
touches more than life and strikes over wider
circle than that where its nearer aud immediate
consequences are apparent. The people of the
United States have been directed into one political
organization, and we are chershing and developing
another; but they will find no men with whom
closer and more living sympathy with their tri-
umphs or with their trouble abdes. than their Cam
adian cousins in the Dominion. (Cheers) Let
this be so in the days of unborn generations and
may we never have again to express our horror at
such deed of infamy as that which has lately
called forth in so striking manner the proofs of
international respect and affection.