The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-03-08
MR RLArnrs EnLoGY.

late President Garfield, delivered in
the hall of the House of Represen-
tatives, Washington, on the 9th
inst, was a mastery, brilliant pro-
duction, worthy Of the occasion and
worthy of the speaker. Probably
there ia no living man who could
better have performed this duty than
the orator of the occasion, and new
or did his great intellectual powers
shine out more brightly than in this
address. We wish we could publish
il all, but il would fill our en-
tire sheet. We content ourselves
with a;few sample extracts, begin
ming with that portion of the eulogy
which alludes TO the entrance of tho
late President on his Executive du-
ties:
In the beginning of his Presidential
life Garfeld's experience did not yield
him pleasure or satisfaction. The du-
ties that engross 80 large a portion OF
the Presidents time were distasteful to
him, aud were unfsvorably contrasted
with his legislative work. 81 have
been dealing all these years with ideas"
he impatiently exclaimed one day, land
here / am dealing only with persons. l
haze been heretofore treating of the
fundamental principles of the govern
ment and here am considering all day
whether A or B shall be appointed TO
| eflce." He was earnestly seeking some
practical way of correcting the evils
arising from the distribution of over
grown and unwieldy patronage-evils
always appreciated and often discussed
by him, but whose magnitude had beer
more deeply impressed upon his Thind
,ince his accession to the Presidency
Had he lived a comprehensive improve
ment in the mode of appointment ano
in the tenure of Office would have been
proposed by him, and with the aid OF
Congress no doubt perfected.
But, while many OF the Executive du-
ties were not grateful TO him. he was as
sidueus and conscientious in their dis
charge. From the very outset he ex-
aibited administrative talent of high
order. He grasped the helm of office
with the hand of q master In this re-
spect indeed he constantly surprised
| many who were most intimately associ-
ated with him in the government, and
especially those who feared he might be
lacking in the executive faculty. His
disposition of business was orderly and
rapid. His power of analysis, and has
skill in classification, enabled him tn
dispatch q vast detail with singular
promptness and ease. His Cabinet
meetings were admirably C INDICTED.
HIS clear presentation of official sub
jects, ais well considered suggestion OF
topics on which discussion was invited
his quick decision when all had been
heard, combined to show thorough
ness of mental training as rare as his
natural ability and his facil- adaptation
to q new and enlarged field of labor.
With perfect comprehension of all the
inheritances Of the war, with cool cal
culation of the obstacles in his way, i'm
PEELED always by a generous enthusiasm,
Garfield conceived that much might be
done by his administration towards re-
storing harmony between the different
sections of the Union. He was anxious
to go South and speak to the people.
As early as April he had Intellectually
endearored to arrange for q trip to
Nashville, ~hitheThe had been cordially
invited, and he Was again disappointed
few weeks later to find that he could
not 20 to South Carolina to attend the
centennial celebration of the victory of
the Cowpens. But for the autumn he
definitely counted on being pres
emit &C three memorable assemblies
in the South, the celebration at York
town, the opening of the Cotton Expo
sition at Atlanta, aud the meeting of
the Army of the Cumberland at Chatta-
nooga. He was already turning over
III AA6 ou0ACcN AOA GdCh OIEth-
sion, and the three taken together, he
said TO a friend, gave him the exact
scope and verge which he needed. At
Yorktown he would have before him
the associations of hundred years that
bound the South aud the North 10 the
sacred memory of q common danger and
a common victory. At Atlanta he would
present the material interests and the
industrial development which appealed
to the thrift and independence of every
household, and which should unite the
two sections by the instinct of self-in-
terest and self-defense. At Chattanooga
he would revive memories of the war
only to show that after all its disaster
and all its suffering, the country was
stronger and greater, the Union render
ed indissoluble, and the future, through
the agony and blood of one generation,
made brighter and better for all.
Garfield's ambition for the success of
his administration was high. With
strong caution and conservatism in his
nature, nc was IN ne danger OF attempt
ing rash experiments or of resorting to
the empiricism of craftsmanship. But
ne believed that renewed and closer at
tention should be given to questions If
fecting the material interests and CO N
mercial prospects of fifty millions of
people. lie believed that our continen
tai relations, exte sive and undeve1oped
as they are, involved responsibility, and
could be cultivated into profitable
friendship or be abandoned TO harmful
indifference or lasting enmity. He be-
lieved with equal confidence that an es-
sential forerunner TO a new era OF ma
tional progress must be feeling of
contentment in every section OF the
HMM and n pnneFOua belief that the