Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-09-28

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srsnaiy lived and grandly died. and the viii,
est oiossom ON the coffin to-day i his .w,
modest. Christian character, which struck il
roots silently and deeply in the cabin. on III,
Low %, path, IN the school and in the college
mere he gat hold on the very foundations o
power and moving thus. what wonder tina
as ne climbed height after height of fame an.
trapped himself with glory as with Carmen
what wonder that fifty millions of peopl,
violet"
As plant upon the earth. saws Emerson
so a man rests upon the bosom of God: he
Is nourished by unfaillng fountains, and draws
AT ms need, inexhaustibIe power
For US. then, the tears For MIN there i,
no need to mourn. For him death is not an
ehd, out change, not a wall that stops the
way ont a door that swings open on a land
scape of immortal beauty.
lhou pure patriot thou ripe scholar
tnou sober statesman. thou gallant
friend, crowned at once with the amar
anth and the laurel, with death and with i'm
mortality, the finger on the lips and the mute
emulation of thy virtues are thy best euloguim
We leave thee pillowed in a nations arms, moi
forgetting to utter, ere we go, the thrice-sait
burial-rite of the ancients
ale, vale, vale, nos re ordne
QUO natura permitted, sequemur
At the conclusion of Mr.. Baker
mastery effort, in a few appropriate words
Walker Blaine, Esq. was presented:
Mr.. BLAINE said:
Sixteen years ago, when the .'lilacs first in
the doorway bloomed" and the faint flush OF
early spring warmed SUMMER hills than these,
"a no lurNI Ill
vexed by the tramp of armies, and the sweet
ar of Heaven poisoned by the smoke OF
battle; when the dawn of peace was break
ing through a war emblackened sky; died. by
murder, the President of the United States
Sixteen years of unbroken peace have sue
ceeded. and now. in the full glory of early
autumn, when the harvests have been gath
cred and the fields have yielded up their in
crease, when prosperity gladdens every
household, and busy industry finds work for
every willing hand second time has fallen.
by the towards bullet. the appointed head
OF the government.
Had the prayers of fifty millions of peo-
pie availed, then had Garfield not died; had
the deepest desire of his fellow countrymen
been fulfilled, then had he lived; but, to-day
as sad bells toll from every steeple, and on
every staff the nations flag is lowered in
humble sadness, we know that, for this
world, the voice of the orator is for all time
stilled, the sword of the soldier eternally
sheathed, the pen of the statesman forever
broken. No more shall hourly bulletin de-
press or cheer, more shall rumor bring
10y or sorrow; the stiffness of death has
fallen on the feebly beating but ever cour-
Iageous heart, and we, who watched beside
that bed. now mourn, while all that is NOR
tai of this great man is hidden by the earth
which he so grandly trod.
During eighty weary days and nights of
summer heat, in every household in his land
one has lain sick; the tagging minutes have
snail-like crept, when at times we thought he
gained, the hecting hours have passed with
|lightning's speed when we knew that he
failed. And, now, after all the long and
painful suspense. after DAYS of sorrow and
days of despair, he is dead. l. there no rec
iompense for this apparent wrong? Shall
sorrows bitter flower bring forth no fruit of
i good?
To-day it may seem So and yet, l think ),
that they who come after us, as they read the
lines on history's page, wherein, in BLACKLIST
letters, is written nations grief, will read
between the lines words of hope and cheer
and consolation. From that leaf will they
learn that this sovereign. chosen by his SOW
|ereigns. worn with pain and wasting with
mortal illness. manfully and frarlessly~ long
battled for his life; that with light heart and
smiling face he saw. with courage and with
calmness, the approach of mans fercest foe
and that never once did pain or torture wring
|repining or complaint from heart or lips.
Let our chidrens children who
read that page learn that the|
vote of free hand, which made him Presi-
dent, was seconded and sanctified by the
r.. ,,l,s la, l. inv,
worthy of being such; let them know as wei
know, that in the sacredncss of sorrow and
tenderness of tears, party faction and sec
3tional difference were forgotten. that North
and South, East and West We'd, with one
Sanother, in affection and patriotism, and, that
. in the more than hundred years of the
.country's history, never were the differing
and different States so closely drawn together
Let those lines teach posterity that. on this
dav, was buried gallant gentleman, who,
spite of Fortunes early frown, lived to wear
lin manhood's full maturity, the highest
honors of the State, with honor unsullied,
with loyalty unstaincd. with devotion to prin-
ciple unquestioned. Let the future learn
that in him his eountrymcn admired an in
trepid soldier, applauded a sage statesman,
loved a brave man. and. that his pure life and
noble death lent new glory to the title of
To-day, by the shore of the great lake
which borders the State wherein he was born
and lived, and whose people he so long
serv ed, is made the hero's grave. The deeds
Of him who sleeps there are summed up and
ended The story of his life, with that of
the great men who have lived among us.
will be recorded in the Bible of
Patriotism. and in that sacred volume
shall ever be inscribed, as inspiration for a
people the life of our second martyr, whose
sblood shall he the seed of the church. -
And now, y God of Heaven, as to-day we
return to thee our fairest son, grant in thy Wis
dom, that the broad chasm which has divided
this country he contracted to the limits of
that narrow and noble tomb; that the blood
which has been shed, may forever quench the
last ashes of sectional prejudice; that the
gulf. which has been. be for all time filled by
this our grandest sacrifice, Grant that never
less than eight and thirty stars may receive
and reflect lustre, as our flag floats above
that grave, and that the memory of him who
there is buried, may for all time be the proud
treasure of free and united nation.
Herbert NJ Heath. Esq, succeeded Mr.
Baker and delivered the following short and