St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-06-02

ASH HOW YOU ltlt tnC plONf OHC SAoP;
the mart, the school and the office
how you rallied from the hills and the
of your country and went forth
to do battle as did your sires of the
We remember you upon the march,
at the bivouac, in camp, i'll hospital
and in the field-in health, in sick
ness and in death. We remember
the hurrying to and fro in hot haste,
the quickened step, the quivering lip,
the mOistened eye, the preparation,
the final leave-taking, and departure
for new scenes of stern trial, the Occa-
siOnal letter, the return upon furlough,
the brief stay, the faithful return to
duty yes, we remember you through
all the tragic scenes of war. More
than this, we rememember as one by
one, sometimes by tens or more, the
news of your summons to eternity
reached your homes how all were
bowed with grief and filled with an
guish. Your fOrefathers gave their
lives to establish great nation and
you gave yours to preserve it-as they
have been remembered, so will you be
The nation, prosperous, disenthral-
led and mighty i'll the glory of its free
dom, with the flag floating unchalleng-
ed from Maine to the Gulf over every
fort and arsenal from one great ocean
to the other, looks to you as its bene-
factors.
We would remember you with Il
lasting, generous gratitude; we would
remember you as sacrifice worthy
the cause for which you died; we
would remember you as you were in
life and as you are in death.
A thought of remembrance we will
bestOw upon the memory of him who
came from his Western home. A plain,
unassuming man, asking the prayers
of his neighbOrs to assist him i'll the
untried responsibilities of the impOr-
tant place to which he had been called,
who dared be Just and in the justice of
his dOings elevated a race from the
degradation of slavery to the glorious
sunlight of liberty after Il little
more than four years faithful service
ut the head of the nation was returned
to that home mighty cOnquerOr, to
sleep the sleep of death. We will re-
member that man with an affection
that shall never cease
Yes, we will remember him as we do
those who fell III the heat of battle,
pierced with bullets and torn by shot
and shell.
On the 2nd of last July the news
that our President was shot spread nm
til it covered the land as the waters
the deep. A dark cloud of anxious
suspense and gloom settled over the
country, thrilling our hope with "A chill
of fear, holding all upon rack as it
were. until, in its elimination, it drop
ped first the mists and then the cold
waters of death, before which the
pride of American humanity was swept
''to that bourne from which no travel
Ter returns"
Yes, Gen. Garfield pitched his tent
with the great congregation of the
dead where he awaits the sounding of
that reveille in which will be heard the
notes of Gabriel's trump. The news
of his death saddened the heart of the
world, arrested the tread of industry,
hushed the hum of machinery, and the
country turned aside to bend the knee
and bow the head in sorrow. Jetfer-
son died requesting a funeral without
public demonstration, Jackson desired
IL quiet burial, Garfield died and Mrs.
Garfield desired burial without pub
lie display-but the people would not
have it so. Fifty thousand did his
memory honor in Washington City
and probably one-half million crowd
ed the scenes of his childhood and life
to bid him good bye, and speed him
on to the throne of God.
James A. Garfield was an unusual
instance of man and manhood. Cra-
died in poverty he conquered it i'll
youth Educated in want and need
he laid deep and broad and well the
foundations of life. Thrown early
among high responsibilities he even
acquitted himself creditably as might
well have become maturer years and
ripper experience. He ran toward
greatness with wonderful rapidity, OIL
ut the age of fifty we should not SET
the measure of his life so full that il
overfows with the noblest, the grand
est, the completest and best accom-
plishments of man.
We thank God that we had such {
man, such a character, such life, sucl
an example, so patiently and heroically
concluded. Let us to-day sympathizt
with his stricken household, with the
widow in her lonely grief, the orphans
and the grand old mother, who was Sc
proud of her boy long before the cOun
try knew him. She bore him in he
arms through the tenderness of ineXpe'
rience, tremblingly rendering him tt
the country.
The country bore him in it's arms
through the experiences of war, a lons
life of Congressional service, by tn,
gateway of the Senate to the mghes
pinnacle of American renOwn, and il
his sore distress, it buOyed him will
sublimest sympathy, sustained him il
dying weeks with the most unfalterins
hope, rocked him in the deep of til,
mightiest prayer, and finally, life pass
ing away to the giver, it returned hin
the proudest of American citizens, t.
that bereaved mother, who tenderll
Graded him not as of yOre for the wOrl
of life, but for the peaceful sleep o
death.
Gen. HarrisOn's funeral was largely
attended, so was that of Gen. Taylor
LincOln's funeral train passed through
Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Buff
falo, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapo
lis and Chicago on its way to Spring
field, but Garfield's funeral train passed
athwart more kindly sympathy anC
through the deep of greater affection
than any that has embarked from til,
White House for the Silent Realm.
Garfield has passed away but tn,
Republic remains. With him it wa
fifty years from the cradle to the grave
When he came we were 1900, 900, al
he went we were 50,00O,O00. Harrison
greatly beloved, Taylor enthusiastical
ly supported, Lincoln adoringly wOr
SHIPPED, all died in the harness, passed
from the public service to the servic,
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