Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-02
EULOGY ON GARFIELD.
Eloquent and Touching Address Delivered
by Senator Hoar Last Evening at Worces-
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nifty, has already assigned it's place. Public
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 26th day of September, the day of
September, the day of the funeral, common
feeling stirred mankind as never before in his
tory. That mysterious law by which on a
great audience every emotion is multiplied in
each heart by sympathy with other, laid its
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 Nh his a 6irth
| from whose loins came the sturdy race from
| which he descended, and whose college gave
him his education, can claim no pre-eminence
| in the sorrow. From the farthest south comes
the voice of mourning for the soldier of the
union. Over the fsherman's hut and the
frontiers mans cabin is spread gloom, be-
cause the house is desolate and the son of the
poor widow is dead, and the palace aud castle
are in tears. As the humble Campbellite
Is borne to his long home, the music of
the requiem fills the arches and domes of
the ancient synagogues. On the coffin of the
canal boy queen lays her wreath. AS the
bier is lifted word comes from beyond the sea
that the nations of the earth are rising and
bowling their heads. From many climes and
in many languages they join in the solemn
service. This is no blind and sudden emotion
gathering and breaking likes 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, to Dor
row felicitous phrase, "hungry for the hori
zon." They were natural frontiersmen. Or
the generations born in America, including the
president, not one was born in other than
frontiersman's dwelling. Two OF them,
father and son, come over with Winthrop in
1880. Each of the six generations who
dwelt in Massachusetts has left an honora-
BILE 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 of, was on
the way to the scene of action before noon.
In 1881 James Garfield was born in an hum
BILE 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,
gave lustre and glory to every place and
thing they touched. The child of such race,
left fatherless in wilderness. yet destined to
such glory, was committed by
providence to three great teachers,
without either of whom he would not have
Income fitted for his distinguished career.
These teachers were wise Christian mother,
poverty, and venerable college president,
who loved to watch his pupil through the
whole of his varied life, to witness his inau-
-nration, amid such high hopes, and to Ia
ment his death.
To no nobler matron did ever 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
familiar bible and the rude ballads
If the war of 1872. The child learned TIE
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.
II is no race of Doors that has struck its
axes into forests of this continent. These
men knew how to build themselves log hous-
es in tn. wilderness. They were more skillful
still to build constitutions and statutes.
Though courteous, conservative, sluggish
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 indeclsion 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 in strenuous contests with ad-
yersitv, 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.
It is one of the most beneficient 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 capacity for gener-
GUS ambitio ns, in a society where labor is
honorable and where every place in social or
public life is open to merit, poverty is no more
disadvantage than the gymnasium to tn
athlete, or drill and discipline to the soldier.
It would have been hard to find in this coun-
try man so well equipped by nature, by ex-
perience and by training as was Garfield.
When he entered the Ohio senate, in 1860, at
the age of %, he was IN his own person a rep
reseutative of the plainest life of the back
woods, and the best culture OF the Oldest east
ern community.
The gigantic scse in which the operations OF our
ate war were conducted, has dwarfed somewhat
| the achievements of individual ors We must
leave to soldiers and to military hisor-
isns to assign their relative history and
| Importance to the movements of the war, but We
nav safely trust the popular judgment which pro-
nounces Garheld's ride at Chickamauga as one of
it's 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
| great odds, We may safely trust, too, the judg-
mept of an accomplished historian who pronounces
his report in favor of the advance that ended with
the battle of Chickamauga the ablest military docu
mept submitted by chief of staff to his superior
during the war. Ne may accept, also, the award of
Lincoln who made him major general for brill ant
service at Chickamauga and the confidence of Thorn
as who offered him the command of an army corps.
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
| laurels we're won It is the fashion in
| some quarters to lament the decay of states
manshp, and make comparisons by no means
complimentary between persons now estimated
with the conduct of public agairs and their prede-
cessors, How insignificant the difficulties which
beset the men of the preceding seventy years COM
pared with these which have crowded the seventeen
which were to follow. How marvellous the success
which the American people have achieved in dealing