Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-27
GARFIELD.
MIR. BLAINE's Tribute To THE DEAD

An Eloquent Eulogy of the Late President
at the Memorial Exercises In the Ma
tiOnal Capitol To-day.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-When the
doors Of the capitol were thrown open at
1890 the galleries of the House were i'm
mediately filled to their utmost capacity, a
large majority Of the spectators being
ladies wearing black clothes. There were
no signs of mourning in the hall. even the |
full-length portrait Of Garfield, hanging |
between the chairs of the presiding OIL
GERS, being undraped. The three front
rows Of desks in the chamber had been re-
moved and their places were occupied by
a large number of chairs to accommodate
the invited guests. Members of the
House were early in attendance, ali dressed
in black and a few in full evening dress.
The Marine band was stationed in the
lobby back of the speakers desk, and
between ten and noon played solemn
music. Among those who occupied seats
On the floor were Governors Hoyt, OF
Pennsylvania, and Bigelow, Of Connecti-
cut. Shortly before - o'clock the diplo-
matte corps arrived. DR.. Bliss was in at.
tendance. Mrs. Blaine occupied front
seat in the gallery, reserved from friends
of the president. At precisely 12 o'clock
the House was called to order by Speaker
Kiefer, and ut 1910 tho Senate was all
nounced and all present rosc respectfully
as the senators took their assigned seats.
They were followed by the justices Of the
supreme court in their robes of Office.
Again the assembled multitude arose as
the president and his cabinet were an
nounccd.
At 1880 orator of the day, James G.
Blaine, arrived and was received with
rounds of applause. He was shortly
afterwards presented by President Davis.
Mr.. Blaine rose and proceeded with im-
pressiven.ess Of manner and clearness Of
tone to deliver his eulogy. He said:
Tho Eulosy.
MIR. PRESIDENT For the second time
| in this generation the great departments
of the government of the United States are
assembled in the Fall of Representatives,
to do honor to the memory of a murdered
president. Lincoln fell at the close of 4
mighty struggle in which tho passions of
men had been deeply stirred. The traG
| ical termination of his great life added
but another to the heightened succession
of horrors which marked SO many lintels
with the blood Of the first-born: Garfield
was slain in day of peace, when brother
had been rcconcilod to brother, and when
anger and hate had been banished from
tho land. ''Whoever shall hereafter draw
tho portrait of murder, if he Will show it
as it has been exhibited where such an eX.
ample was last to have been looked for,
let him not give it the grim visage OF
Moloch, the brow knitted by revenge, the
face black with suppressed hate. Let him
draw, rather, decorous, smooth-faced,
! bloodless demon not so much an example
of human nature in its depravity and In
its paroxyisms Of crime. as an internal
being, fiend in the ordinary display and
development of his character
From the landing of the Pilgrims at
Plymouth till the uprising against Charles
First, about twenty thousand emiGrants
came from Old England to Now England
AS they came in pursuit Of intellectual
freedom and ecclesiastical independence
rather than for worldly honor and profit,
the emigration naturally ceased when tho
contest for religious liberty began il
earnest at home. The man who struck his
most effective blow for freedom of con
science by sailing for the colonies in 1926
| would have been accounted a dcserter tC
leave after 1G4O. The opportunity hat
then come On the soil of England for thai
great contest which established the au.
thority of Parliament, gave religious free
dom to the people, sent Charles to thi
block. and committed to the hands o
; Oliver Cromwell the supreme executive
authority of England. The English emf
grafton was never renewed, and from thes'
twenty Thousand men with a small emf
: grafton from Scotland and from France ar,
descended the vast numbers who hay'
New England blood in their veins.
In 1855 the revocation OF the edicG .
Nantz by Louis XIV. scattered to othe
countries four hundred thousand Protes
tants, who were among the most intelli
gent and enterprising of French subject
merchants of capital, skilled manuf:sc
! turers, and handicraftsmen, superior 4
the time to all others i'll Europe. A con
siderable number of these Hugueno
| French came to America q few landed il
New England aud became honorably prom
inent in it's history. Their names have i.
large part become anglicised, Or have dis
1 appeared, but their blood is traceable il
, many of the most reputable families, ant
their fame is perpetuated in honOrab!
. memorials and useful Institutions.
!, From these two sources, the Englisl
y Puritan and the French Huguenot, CAM
the late president-his father, Abram Gar
y field, being descended from the one. az
: his mother, Eliza Ballou, from the other
1t was good stock on both sides-non
> better, none braver, none truer. Their
was in it an inheritance Of courage, O
7 manliness, of impershable lovo of liberty
of undying adherence to principle. Gar
field was proud of his blood and, with a
much satisfaction as if he We're a British
nobleman reading his stately ancestra
:, record in Burke's Peerage, he spoke q
himself as ninth in descent from tn Os
who would not endure tho oppression O
n tho Stuarts. and seventh in descent fron
the brave French Protestants who refuse
, to submit to the tyranny even from til
!, Grand Monarque.
General Garfield delighted to dwell o
these traits, and, during his only visit
S England, he busted himself in discovering
every trace of his forefathers in paris
), registries and on ancient army rolls SIT
, ting with friend in the gallery Of til
u House of Commons one night after q lon
y days labor in this field of research, b
J. said with evident elation that every wa
in which for three centuries patriots {
English blood had struck sturdy blows fo
l. constitutional government and huma
S Iihartv hic farnilu had been renreSentad