Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-03
BLAINE's TRIBUTE TO GARFIELD.
What the Newspapers Say About 1t.
MASTERLY AND COMPLETE.

What the Newspapers Say About 1t.
MAsTERLY AND COMPLETE.
Washington Special to the Courier |
Journal 1t was mastery and complete |
epitome of a busy life, a solid brick of
metal from which may be hammered as
many voluminous lives of Garfield as men
may essay to write. The most particular
aud minute of all who may try cannot,
however, safely get outside this mastery
eptomization of his life, work and charac-
ter; there was none of the putting forward
of self that some looked for, and in the
studied absence of it, Mr.. Blaine builded
for the future in the surest way.
AMONG THE BEST.
New York Herald: When we include
Mr. Blaine's eulogy of President Garfield
among the best of such American orations
we pay greater tribute to its merit than j.
we should compare it with any foreign ex-
amples Nowhere in the foreign forums of
speech do dscourses reach the public ear
from pulpit or from parliament with which it
may not easily challenge rivalry for the dig
nifty of its treatment of the theme, the clear
ness of its descriptive passages, the unity of
its plan, its abstinence from adulation, the
felicity of its language and the pathos of its
close.
EQUAL TO THE OCCASION.
Louisville Commercial: Mr.. Blaine's eu-
logy upon the late President will be read
with absorbing interest by millions of peo-
pie, and the general verdict will be that it is
an address to equal the requirements of the
occasion. The peroration is indeed not
surpassed in beauty by anything in the
whole realm of preserved oratory. AS a
tribute to one SO loved and honored this
memorial speech will be forever enshrined
in the hearts and annals of the republic, as it
most nssbiy deserves to be.
MAsTERl-e Any yrAUT1FU1.
Chicago Tribune The Garfield men,
orial Grafton delivered in the hall of the
House of Representatives yesterday before
most august assemblage must be consid-
cred beyond question as ne most mastery
and most beautiful of all the tributes which
have yet been paid to the life aud memory
of the ilIustrious dead. 1t joins to the
warmth of statement which might have
been expected from a personal friend and
admirer the cool and clear analysis of the
accurate observer of human nature, but the
affection engendered by personal inter
course is not allowed to carry the speaker
into rhapsody on the one hand or the exag-
SoldLlOAS VI OA tnc Ot1oT LII
Its literary style it is clear, concise, and
thoughtful, purely written, calmly stated,
and at times, particularly in the peroration,
glowing eloquent.
ITS UNsELFIsHNEss
New York Times: Mr.. Blaines eulogy
was every way worthy of the subject and
the occasion. 1t said nothing to cause re-
gret, and leaves no sense of inadequacy or
omission pf What called for If will
not rank among great funeral orations, but
1t was graceful, fitting, and sufficient. Its
chief merit is that it is full of its subject
and empty of its author. 1t embalms the
memory of the one in a worthy form, anG
1t furnishes no suggestion of the relations
of the other 10 that subject or to the grea
public for whose admiration and affection
ate remembrance it is presented.
NOTHING WANTING.
Philadelphia Record: As work of al
the address will take high rank among et
forts of the kind, and it may safely chal
lenge comparison with the best specimen
of commemorative oratory in the Englis
tongue. Its exordium is gigorous, clean
cut and crisp, and the pathetic eloquence O
it peroration stamps it as a classic. Th
style is easy without being commonplace
and elevated without turgidity. 1t is
singularly compact production. The miu
of the trained man of affairs and the han
OF the practical writer appear at every poin
of it. There is a mastertul terseness in tn
narrative and descriptive passages of th
address and a tasteful absence of the Gus
tomary profusion of panegyric. ii
sketches the figure of his friend in few an
clear lines, and paints panorama of hi
career which Is the more pictorial becaus
1t has no meretricIous ornaments or flourish
Nothing is wanting to the completeness {
the work, and yet there is In it not a touc
too much.
ACKNOWLEDGED ABILITY.
leNew York Tribune: Mr.. Blaine ha
throughout discharged his difficult task wit
all his acknowledged ability, and with gel
erous consideration for others, tact and
sagacity, shown alike in what he did and di
not say, that merit the highest praise. Fc
the time, the place and circumstances tn
Grafton is masterpiece, nor can it be othe
wise than wholesome for our politics an
well for the country that attention is agai
universally directed to the shining caree
the noble aims and the untimely end of Il
martyred Garfield.
THE CONSULATE SKILL OF THE ORATOR.
Philadelphia Times: The delicacy wi
which Mr.. Blaine treats the internecil
party strife that has taken It's place ID hist
ry as the inspiration of the murder of N
Garfield, is the highest tribute to the co
summate skill of the orator. Truly does
close this sad chapter with the well-studi
sentence: ''More than this need not
said less than this could not be said"
told the whole story SO gently that no
could confess offense, andyet SO plainly th
the wayfarer will well understand it. 1t
the briefest and yet the most unanswerab
yindication of the late President Carrie
that has been, or ever will be, given to t
world, and only Blaine could have thus a
swered, in single paragraph, the flood
misrepresentation that has found easy cha
nels of diffusion in the sunshine of accident
power. He places the attitude of the Ia
President above all the dictates of person
resentment or mean ambition in the Con
ling controversy, and when that is done Il
contrast between the disputing chieftai
presents the one as the soaring eagle al
the other as the musing owl, and makes t
Tindication Of Garfield complete.