The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-09

WIN WIN Others, have become, so far as Gar
,ielu Is concerned, as much q matter n
history as his aeroism at Chickamauea n
ms iiius'rious service in the House. De
!all is not needful, and personal an tapon
ism shall not be rekindled bv anv wor,
uttered to-day. The motives Of thos
opposing him are not to be here M odyer.e oe
.u.elPieted nor their course harshl,
'ia Jina.aG,erized. But of the dead Presi
u htne tnls Is to be said, and said becaus
nis own speech is forever silenced and h,
Gdn,;. dn ne no mere heard except through th,
Tren'y T.ey ana the love Of surviving friends
,ona .he beginning to the end of tn,
Ipon.!;oovefey he 30 much deplored, tn,
lesluent was never for one momen
"e,s actHa'eo by any motive of gain to him
sell or OF loss to others. Least of al
men did ne harbor revenge rarely die
ne even snow resentment, and malice wa,
not IN his nature. He was conpenially
employed only in the exchange of good
omces DC, and the doing of kindly deeds'
Anere was not an hour, from the be-
ginning OF the trouble till the fatal sho
entered his body, when the Presiden,
wouiu not gladly, for the sake of restor
Ing harmony, have ,etraced any step he
naa la; .aken If such retracing had merely
involved consequences personal to him.
sen. Ihe pride Of consistency. or any
supposed sense of humiliation that might
result from surrendering his position. had
not a feathers weight with him. M
man was ever less subject to such influ.
ences from within or from without. Rut
a..er most anxious deliberation and the
Ioolest survey of all the circumstances
ne soiemniy believed that the true pre-.
!:ogatVes OF the Executive were involved
IN the Issue which had been raised. and
tnat he would be unfaithful to his su.
Preme obligation if he failed to maintain
III al their vigor, the constitutional rights
ana dignities of his great office. He be.
Ne7ed this in nil the convictions of con.
science when in sound and vigorous
health, and he believed it in his suffering
ana pr0stration in the last conscious
thought which his wearied mind bestowed
on The transitory struggles of life.
More than this need not be said. Less
than this could not be said. Justice TO
the dead, the highest obligation that de.
wolves upon the living, demand the
declaration that liz all the bearings of the
supJect, actual or possible, the President
was content in his mind, justified in his
conscience, immovable in his conclusions.
In speaking of his religious principles
Dir. Blaine remarked:
1he crowning characteristic of Gen.
Gariield's religious opinions. as, indeed.
OF all his opinions, was his iibcrality.
In all things he had charity. Tolerance
was Of his nature. He respected in
others the qualities which he possessed
himself sincerity Of conviction and
frankness OF expression. With him the
inquiry. was not so much what n man be-
lieves, but does he believe it? The lines
OF his friendship and his confidence en-.
circied men of every creed, and men of
no creed, and to the end of his life, OH
his ever-lengthening list of friends, were
to be found the names Of o pious Catho-
lie priest and of an honest minded and
generous.hearted Free thinker.
IN CONCLUSION.
In closing the eulogy, Mr.. Blaine spoke
as follows:
Great in life, he was surprisingly great
in death. For no cause, in the very
frenzy OF wantonness and wickedness. by
the red hand of murder, he was thrust
from the full tide of this world 3 interest
from its hopes, it's aspirations, its yicto.
ries, into the visible presence of death
and he did not quail. Not alone for the
one short moment in :ghich, stunned and
dazed, he could give up life, hardly aware
of its relinquishment, but through days
of deadly ianguor, through weeks ol
agony, that was not less agony because
silently borne, with clear 81 ght and calm
courage he looked into his open grave
What blight and ruin met his anguished
eyes, whose lips may tell-what brilliant
broken plans, what baffled, high ambi.
:ions, what sundering of strong. warn,
manhoods friendships, what bitter rend.
ing of sweet household ties! Behind
him proud, cxpectant nation, q great
host of sustaining friends, a cherished
and happy mother, wearing the full, rich
honors of her early toll and tears; the
wife of his youth, whose whole life lay ir
his; the little boys not yet emerged from
chilhood's day of frolic; the fair, young
daughter; the sturdy sous just springine
into closest companionship, claiming
every day and every day rewarding :
fathers love and care, and in hi. hear
the eager, rejoicing power to meet all de
mand. Before him, desolation and grea
darkness And his soul was not shaken
His countrymen were thrilled with in
slant; profound and uni sersal sympathy
Masterfnl in his mortal weakness, lie be
came the centre of nations love. Ell
shrined in the prayers of world. Blu
all the lore and all the sympathy coult
not share with him his suffering. H,
trod the wine.press alone. With unfal
tering front he faced death. With un
failing tenderness he took leave of life
Above the demoniac hiss Of the assassin
bullet he heard the voice of God. Will
simple resignation he bowed to the Di
vine decree.
AS the end drew near, his early crav
ing for the sea returned. The statel,
mansion of power had been to him tn,
wearisome hospital of pain, aud b.
begged to be taken from its prison walls
from its oppressive. sitting air, from it.
homelessness and its hopelessness. Gent
ly, silently, the love of a great people
bore the pale sufferer to the longed-fol
healing of the sea, to live or to die, a,
God should will, within sight of its heav
ing billows. within sound of it's manifold
voices. With wan, feyered face tenderly
lifted to the cooling breeze, he looked ou
wistfully upon the oceans changing won
ders; on its far sails, whitening in the
morning light; on its restless waves
rolling shoreward to break and die be
meath the MONDAY sun; on the rec
clouds of evening, arching low to the
horizon, on the serene and shining path
way of the stars. Let us think that hi.
dying eyes read a mystic meaning which
only the rapt and parting soul may know
Let us believe that in the silence of The
receding world he heard the great waves
breaking on a further shore, and felt al
ready upon his wasted brow the breatt