New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-05

very Of writing this pnper-now It but short
inle ago but many months have passed, sun tnos9
times are fresh I'm memories both this side and
! the other side Of the ocean-it was while was IN
the very act Of writing this lecture when one event nap
pcnc1 winch, sad in every other aspect mas Deen
joyful IN this thar 1t has brought the two great divisions
OF the Eng sh folk together in heart and feeng
not 80 very long since the hearts OF all the
world were stirred by the fate OF a
great and illustrOus monarch, struck down by
the murderer IN the streets of his own capital That
was the recopensc for life given for the good OF his
people That the record OF the prince who had raised
millions OF his subjects for the first time to the iul
rank Of human bengsthe prince who while he set free
the nOndsmen In his realm forgot not To set free tne
Dondsmen OF his beyond the bounds OF his own
rule We monrned for, Alexander the Liberator,
Iva ! was fit to mourn for noble man man
doomed to an unworthy fate since tn ial
IlV we nave had To mourn again, TO mourn Tor man no
less noble. cut down no loss unworhy. cut down when
he had just stretched forth his nand for worthy and
noble work. And this time our mourning mas
been deeper. 1t has been deeper pc
we have been sharing in the mourning of brethren:
we nonrned Tor the man OF our own blood as we eon
an Emperor OF all the Russias as we
e9nld mourn for the chosen leader OF mighty
commonwealth of our own people We could not
mourn even for Alexander the LibeTat9r as we
All signs of grief and kindred feeling
the people Of one political body watching day
by day for the least news Of the welfare OF the
chet OF another political BODY, watching IA IT. they
had been watching by the bed OF father or brother
the breahcs5 eagcness hear of every turn for the
better or for the worse the prayers sent up from the
TEN Die of various forms of the common faith for
Christian brother and "A Christian ruer-the signs OF
sorrow when al over the the pccrhes inc
muled hcils the flags half-mast high. the telegraph
wires flashing messages of sympathy the court of Britain
IN the uuwOnCd of sorrow What does all TINS prove
l. proves indeed, and sympathy FOR noble man,
ci1cly and fOuy wrOngcd," That we felt for the muir
dcred Emperor less than for the murdered President
This proved something more; II
proved that President of the United states can be
something To En- .islmcn winch the Emperor or all
Tie ussas cannot bc. We felt for him Tor one of our
selves; cannot say for cOuntriman that
geography iorbdsl-but for y man of our own
blood and our own speech We could write over the
gralcO Garfield could not write the grave ol
Alexander. the is near akin To- us We m"urued
who bad himself deserved sympathy aud our
sOrrOw, but that sympathy and sorrow were All the
kerurr because he who called them forth brother
in or commonwealth of brcinrcn, the worthy
chirt %; of The two great divisions Of the English
people. l\ppIaUs b..
have said tnat wncu the keel Of engst drew near 70
tine kcutiSh snrc they bore with them ne germs oI the
AUcuc 90 common wealth. well ~ the germs ni Tue
Iugri kin si0m. viii 20 further back When
Augustus calrd vainy on Warns 10 give him back the
Regions that had icu heHeItb the Cncruscau sword,
he WAS mourning for event, hut for which wa
cOud never have stood here ~ We now
stand. bur that memoir thc day M the childhood ot
people when AruluuS rnt oil The lcSious OF Nar1li
and saved Germany from the fate Of GIul and SpanDut
tUg tidt ddy neither league at d,r nor tue union
Ui;rccHt. neither iu Great Char rr OF England nor
the Federal Consultation of America could ever have
had i ulacc IA the page o. history lAPptausc.I