Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-11-27
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
-,rrRpAY. NOVEMBER P. 1886.
rN-rEE>IDENT ARTHUR.


 r>-rEESIDENT ARTHUR.
 r, p,..il-at On ster 4. Arthur, whose
 = ,,.prrsi on the 18th of this montb,
 b,-n n Franklin county. Vermont,
 ,b. 5,b ot O,tobsr, 1880. and at the
 ..,s o. b,s death Was in the 57th year of - He was the eldest of a family
 ,-, .ons and tive daughters. His
 s.s,- ,bs Ry William Arthur. a
 p...,., c ce-syman, emigrafed from the
 .,9,.y oi Antrim. 10 Irelan1, to this
 .,,-.-, wa-n h. WIS eignteen years old,
 -, 3,.3 Al Newtolville, near Albany.
 X., Ys-k. O.tuber 27th. 1875. NIT.
 ,-,bn- was educated at Union college,
 ,,3 yrs:uatei with the class of 1S49.
 u, sf,--raris taught school for two
 r.,-. i. Vermont and, having saved by
 ,-j economy about S500, be weut to
 X.rYork city aud ud,ed law In the
 .z,s .f Jai,e r. D. Culver. Alter his
 si-,issi,n 10 the bar he formed part
 ne-ss,p with Henry D. Gardiner and en- tsr4i mon su.c--s'u. practice ip New York. and married the daughter Of Lieutenant Her1lon, United States Navy. She d,ed iu IS-9. l- yilg son, Chester
 Allen Arthur. u0s twenty-two years old.
 and S da1Eht-r, Nellie Arthur, now
 fourteen.
 Prey,ous 70 the outbreak of the war. Mr. ArtL1r wss JudEe Advocate of the 2iBrisaie 0t the New York state militia snd engineer in-chiet on the staff of Governor l. D. Morgan; later on be held the post of Inspe' tor-General and then QlsrtermasteT-Ge General until the expiration ot Governor Morgso's term Of office. He managed his import ant office and its grave responsibilities with singular ability and closed the vol luminous accounts of the state of New Tors with the general government, in- volving hundreds of millions of dollars with Q fidelity that not dollars dis crepaucy was found, and at the end of his term he was a poorer man, fnsu-| cislly than when he was commissioned.
 Rsr1rPing to his law practice at the expiration of Governor Morgan's term. he pr1spered exceedingly, and was grad uslly drawn into the arena of polltics sad ID November, 1881 he was appoint ed by President Grant collector of the port of New York, in place of Hon. Thomas Murphy, resigned. He was re- appointed four years later ss a special mark Of the confidence and esteem of the president. In his official manage ne1t of the position be was the first to spply the civil service rules that have slnce become law, ,,snd he continued the practice during all his off .isl career.
 General Arthur was removed from of fee ss collector, by President R. B. Hayes, on July l2th, 1878, for no proper cause; even Mir. Hayes then bore official | witness 10 the purity of his acts while | in office. IL WAS political movement, urged by politicians who regarded General Arthur as a menace to their as- pirstions and an obstacle to theIr smbi- iions. He sss offered the Consul-G-n- e'Rlship at Paris, but declined the holor.
 The National R-publicsn Convention Of l-sJ, met st ChIcago, and on the Sth Of June nominated General James A. Garfield for president, and Gen Chester 4 Arthur for vice president, giving the latter a vote upon the first ballot, of 46S ca. of 7j6 delegates. The election gave them c handsome maj rity and they were 'nsugurste on March 4ih 1881
 We are all familiar with the cowardly assassin ation of President Garfield. on ;le morning of July 2i, 1881, and of hIs long sutfariags and final death on the l!gLt Of September 18th.
 A. the urgent solicitation of the cabinet General Arthur immeistelyd took the oath of office as president of he Cuited States, before Justice John Brady, of the supreme court of New ioEk, aud left immediately for Long Branch to accompany the funeral tram Washington. On the 22d of Septem Der the tormality of taking the oath of oihce st the hsuds of ths chief justice of ! The |. 5. Supreme Court WAS gone through in Q quiet, unostentstious and oecorous manner. Ot hls career AS president, but little oeed be sad. During his term there oo- C cured no Srost emergency to demon s'FAte the ability and statesmanshIp "i'h which he was endowed, but a more prosperous, peaceful and progres- T H'e era of the happy restoration Il O' the physical and social con | 1''on or the people and the country has never been known. He t 's''ed the people with an eye solely to T '-ei iood, and at the end of his term he T ''eqPei down from his office with P Ou' single stain upon his high chsrAc- 2 's' or good name. Nothing but good t ''u De tGth'ully sad of him, and the s'lceFe sorrow Of the whole American b nalon today attestz the esteem and af- II .0','oh Tor the departed e1 president, O 'hs' IS enshrined in the hearts of it fifty O hTe million Of peoples. II '4N ! n