Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-28
OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
Price Pour Cents.
GARFIELD.
The Eulogy by NIT. Blaine.

in the Hall of Representatives to do honor to
 the memory of a murdered President. Lin
 coin fell at the close of mighty struggle in
 which the passions of men had been deeply
 stirred. The tragical termination of his
 great life added but another to the length
 ened succession of horrors which had marked
 so many Hntels with the blood of the first
 l born Garfield was slain in g day of peace
 when brother had been reconciled to brother
 and when anger and hate had been banished
 from the land. Whoever shall hereafter
 | draw the portrait of murder if he will show
 it as it has been exhibited where such exam pie was last to have been looked for. let him not give 1t the grim yisage of MoIoch the 1 brow knitted by revenge, the face black with settled hate. Let him d-av, rather decor | ous, smooth-faced, bloodless demoa not so | much an example of human nature in its de- ! prayity and in it's paroxysms of crime, as an 1 internal being, fiend in the ordinary dis play and development of his character" 1 Garfeld's boyhood, his work as scholar
 and teacher, his army life. his service in
 Congress and his presidential candidacy were | then reviewed. The remainder of the edIogy | is as follows:
 | In the beginning of his Presidential life | Garheld's experience did not yield him pleas | urs or satisfaction. The duties that engross so large portion of the Presidents time | were distasteful to him, and were unfayor- ably contrasted with his legislative work. | q have been dealing all these years with | ideas" he impatiently exclaimed one day, | ''and here am dealing only with persons | I have been heretofore treating of the funda- mental principles of government, and here | am considering all day whether A or B shall | be appointed to this or that office" He WAS
 earnestly seeking some practical way of cor | recting the evils arising from the distribu- ! ton of overgrown and unwieldy patronage | z1- | by him, but whose magnitude had been more l deeply impressed upon his mind since his &C., 1 eession to the Presidency. Had he lived, 8 comprehensive improvement in the mode of appointment and 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 duties were not grateful to him, he was assiduous and conscientious in their discharge. From | the very outset he exhibited administrative | talent of high order. He grssped the helm | of office with the hand of master. In this respect indeed he constantly surprised many | who were most intimately associated with | him in the government, and especially those | who had feared that he might be lacking in l the executive faculty. His disposition of business was orderly and rapid His power | of analysis, and his skill in classification, en- abled him to dispatch a vast mass of detail with singular promptness and ease. His
 
 | His clear presentation of official subjects, | his well considered suggestion of topics on which discussion was invited, his quick de- cision when all had been heard, combined to show tkoroughness of mental training as rare as his natural ability and his fAciIe adaptation to 8 new and enlarged field of 1 labor.
 With perfect comprehension of all the in
 heritances of the war, with coo. calculation
 of the obstacles in his way. impeIled always by generous enthusiasm, Garbeld col- ceived that much might be done by his ad- ministration towards restoring harmony be- tween the different sections of the Union He was anxious to go South and speak to the people As early as April he had inefeetnal- ly endeayored to arrange for trip to Nash vile, whither he had been cordially invited, and he was again disappointed few weeks
 later to find that he could not go to South Carolina to attend the ceptennial celebration of the victory of the Cowpens. But for the autumn he definitely counted on being pres ent at three memorable assemblies in the South, the celebration at Yorktown, the open ing of the cotton exposition at Atlanta, and the meeting of the Army of Cumberland at Chattanooga He was already turning over in his mind his address for each occasion, and t11z.oo three t2kap- together, bs sid to- friend, gave him the exsct scops End verge which he needed At Yorktown he would have before him the associations of a hEn- dred years that bound the South and North in the sacred memory of common danger and common victory. At Atlanta he would present the material interests and the in- dustrial development which appealed to the thrift and independence of every household, and which should unite the two sections by the instinct of self-interest and self-defense. At Chattanooga he would revive memories of the war only to show that after all its disas-. ter and all its suffering the country was stronger and greater, the Union rendered in { dissoluble, and the future, through the agony and blood of one generation, made brightes and better for all
 Garfeld's ambition for the success of his administration was high With strong eau ton and conservatism in his nature, he was in no danger of attempting rash experiments
 or of resorting to the empiricism of states manship. But he believed that renewed and closer attention should be given to questions affecting the material interests and commer-
 cial prospects of fifty millions of people. Be believed that our continental relations ex-
 tensive and undeveloped as they are, involved
 responsibility, and could be cultivated into profitable friendship or be abandoned 60 harmful indifference lasting ennIity- He
 believed with equal confidence that an essen-
 tial forerunner to new era of -nationas
 progress must be feeling of contentment in
 every section of the Union, and generous
 belief that the benefits and burdens of gov ernment would be common to all Himself conspicuous illustration of what ability and ambition may do under republican institu- tions be loved his country with passion of
 patriotic devotion, and every waking thought
 was given to her advancement. He was an
 American in all his aspirations, and he look ed to the destiny and influence of the United States with the philosophlc composure of Jefferson and the demonstrative confde1ce of John Adams
 sThs political events which disturbed the Presidents serenity for many weeks before that fateful day in July form an important chapter iE his career, and, in his own iudz- ment involved questions of principle and of right which are vitally essential to the con stitutional administration of the federal gov ernment It would be out of place here and now to speak the language of controFsse- 1 but the events referred to, however they may continue to be source of contention with | others, have become, so far as Garfield is concerned, as much a matter of history as his | heroism at Chickamauga or his I1ostrious
 service in the House Detail is not needful
 and personal sntagonism shall not be rekin- | dled by any word uttered to day. The mo- l tiyes of those opposing him are not to be here adversely interpreted nor their course I harshly characterized. But of the dead PresE- | dent this is to be said, and said because his l own speech Is forever silenced and he can be
 no more heard except through the fidelity | and the love of surviving friends: From the beginning to the end of the controversy he 1 Sc much deplored, the President Eas never | for one moment actuated by any motive of | gain to himself or of loss to others. Least of | all men did he hArbor revenge rarely did he l even show resentment and malice vas not in I his nature. He wss congenially employed only in the exchange of good offices and sls doing of kindly deeds.
 l There was not an hour, from the begin- ming of the trouble till the fatal shot entered | his body, when the President would noe | gladly, for the sake of restoring harmony.
 have retraced any step he had taken if suck | retracing had merely involved consequences personal to himself. The pride of consistsn- | cy, or any supposed sense of humilda1icx
 that might result from surrendering his po-
 sition, had not Q feathers weight with him. | No man was ever less subject to such infu-
 ences from within from without But afz 1 ter most anxious deliberation and the cooles1 l survey of all the circumstances, he soleunlF | believed that the true prerogatives of the Ex. | ecutiye were involved in the issue which had
 been raised and that he would be unfAfthful 1 to his supreme obligation if he failed to main- l tain in all their Tigor, the constitutional ] rights and dignities of his great office He believed this in all the convictions of con- 1 science when in sound and vigorous health. i and be believed it in his suffering and pros | tration in the last conscious thought which | his wearied mind bestowed on the transitorx I