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EULOGY ON GARFIELD.
EIoou ent and Touching Address Delivered
by Senator Hoar Last Evenipg at Worces-
ter, Mass.

WORCESTER, Mass, Dec. Ex-senator Hoar
tonight delivered al eulogy on President
Garfield he said: | should indulge myself In
a strange delusion if l hoped to say anything
of President Garfield, which is not already
well known to his countrymen, or to add
further honor to name to which the judg-
ment of the world, with marvellous unanl-
nifty, has already assigned its place fuohc
sorrow and love have found utterance, If not
adequate, yet such as speech,
and silence, and funeral rite, and stately pro-
cession, and prayer, and tears could give.
On the Goth day of September, the day OF
September, the day of the funeral, common
feeling stirred mankind as never before IN MS
tory. That mysterious law by when on
great audience every emouon IS nul'iPliea ~; ~
each heart by sympathy with other, Iald lts
spell on universal humanity, at the touch OF
which makes the whole world kin. All
barriers of rank, or party, or state,
or nation disappeared. HIS own
Ohio, the state of his 6lrtn
and his burial, and New England,
from whose loinS came the sturdy race from
which he descended, and whose college gave
him his education, can claim no Pre-emlnenco
in the sorrow From the farthest south comes
the voice of mourning for the soldier OF Inc
union. Over the fisherman's hut and the
frontiers mans cabin is spread gloom, De-
cause the house is desolate and the son OF tAe
poor widow is dead, and the palace aud castle
are in tears AS the humble Camppeiilte
is borne to his long home, the music OF
the REQUIEM fills the arches and domes OF
the ancient synagogues. On the CONN OF the
canal bow q queen lays her wreath. AS the
bier is lifted word comes from beyond the sea
that the nations Of the earth are rising ana
bowling their heads. From many cllmes and
in many languages they join in the solemn
service. This is no blind and sudden emotion
gathering and breaking like wave. 1t is the
moaning of mankind for great character al
ready perfectly known and familiar.
The history of the settlement of Massachu-
sets. Central New York and Ohio, is the his
tory of the Garfield race; they were, 10 DOE DOT
row felicitous phrase, ''hungry for the horl-
ION" They were natural frontiersmen. VI
the generations born in America, including the
president, not one was born in other than
frontier. mans dwelling. Two OF them,
father ana sln, come over with winthrop IN
1850. Each of the six generations who
dyelt in massachusetts, has left an honora-
bic record still preserved. Five IN succession
bore honorable military titles. Some were
fighters in Indian wars. At the breaking out
of the revolution the male representatives OF
the family were two young brothers. One,
whose name descended to the president, was IN
arms at Concord Bridge at sunrise on the 18TH
of April. The other, the presidents great
grandfather dwelling thirty miles oil, Was on
the way to the scene of action before noon. (
In 1851 James Garfield was born in an hum
bIe Ohio cabin, where he was left fatherless,
in his infancy. Young Garfield Inherited on
his mothers side the qualities of the Hugue-
nots, those gentle, but not less brave or less
constant Puritans, who, for conscience sake,
left their beloved and beautiful France, VINO
gave a lustre and glory to every place and
thing they touched. The child of such race,
left fatherless in wilderness. yet destined to
providence to three great teachers,
without either of whom he would not have
become fitted for his distinguished career.
These teachers were wise Christian mother,
poverty, and a venerable college president,
who loved to watch his pupil through the
whole OF his varied life, to witness his inau-
puration, amid such high hopes, and to L.
ment his death.
To no nobler q matron did ever a Roman
hero trace his Origin. Few of the traditions OF
his Puritan ancestry could have come down to
the Young orphan. 1t is said there were two
things with which his mother was specially
famiIiar-tne bible and the rude ballads
of the war of 1872. The child learned the
Bible at his mothers knee, and love OF coun-
try from his cradle hymns. From such
home came Webster, and Clay, and Lincoln,
and Jackson.
III
axes into forests of this continent. These
men knew how to build themselves log hous
es in the wilderness. They were more skillful
still 10 build constitutions and statutes.
Though courteous, conservative, sluggish
and unready in ordinary life, their
brains move quick and sure as their rifles
flash, when great controversies that determine
the fate of states are to be decided, when great
interests that brook no delay are at stake, and
great battles that admit of no indecision are
to be fought.
would not undervalue the material of
which republics have been built. The polish
ed marbles of Greece and its ally have their own
grace, but art or nature contain no more eX-
ouisite beauty than the color which this
split and unhewn granite takes from the
tempest it withstands. The stray of a child
hood passed it poverty, of intellect and moral
nature trained III strenuous contests with ad-
yersity, is not unfamiliar to those who love
reading the lives of men who have been sue
cessful in this country in any of the walks of
life.
1t is one of the most tere1Iicient results of
the American institutions that we have
ceased to speak of poverty and hard
ship, and necessary for hard and
humble toll, as disadvantage, To spirit
endowed by nature with a capacity for gener-
GUS ambitions, in a society where labor Is
honorable and where every place in social or
a disadvantage than the gymnasium to the
athlete, or drill and discipline 10 the soldier.
It would have been hard to find in this coun-
try man so well equipped by nature, by ex-
perence and by training as was Garfield.
When he entered the Ohio senate, in 1860, at
the age of Is. he was IN his own person a rep
resentative of the plsinest life of the back
woods, and the best culture of the Oldest east
ern community.
The gigantic scale in which tho operations of our
late war were conducted, has dwarfed somewhat
the achievements of individual sc;ors We must
leave t. soldiers and to military his,or-
ians to assign their relative history and
importance to the movements of the war, but we
MAY safely trust the popular Judgment which pro-
nounces Garfeld's ride at Chickanaugs as one of
its most conspicuous instances of personal heroism
and plucky campaigning, most brilliant example
of fertility of resource, combined with prudence
sound military Judgment and success against
Tnent of an accomplished historian, who pronounces
his report in favor of the advance that ended with
the battle of Chickamsuga the sbes military docu-
ment submitted by chief of staff to his superior
during the war. We may accept, also, the award of
Lincoln, who made him major general for brilliant
serviceat Chicksmaugs and the confidence of Thorn
as, who offered him the command of an army CORDS
Great as was his capacity for military service the
Judgment OF Abraham Lincoln did not err when it
summoned him to the field labor, where his greatest
iaurels were 1t is the fashion in
some quarters to lament the decay of states
rnanshp, and make comparisons by no means
complimentary between persons now estimated
with the conduct of public sgairs and their prede-