Show SYNOPSIS OF AN ADDRESS on the occasion of the memorial cei Cue held in the provo pi aio oio tabernacle september Septem bei 1881 by B ilo HON 4 IV N with the millions of our oui fellow cit izen s nil all over this broad land 0 wo o meet to give expressions of sorrow bonow and because o ono one of our oui country count rys s most lio honored noral sons in in the poison person of its chief magistrate is is dead and tit at this hour horn his body n is bo ing ing consigned to tile silent tomb the various pro clama lions of tho the president ilent of tho the united states the governor of this territory Tern toi imd and tho the mayor of our city but indicate indic itu to us tho cho day and lour bour when we shall hect but tile event with uth all its ita melancholy mil inchol ly surroundings proclaim to till all who respect a trill truly y great and noble thai char actor that they tire aio bereft of it good friend find and honorable follow fellow citizen in in tho the death of james jamea A garfield we mourn mouin tho the loss to our om country of 0 such auch a man and lament tile tho terrible manner of his d death mth wo we meet upon those occasions not to benefit the dead di ud but to deplore thou their absence dinglo our om sorrow bonow tor for their loss and give tributes of 0 respect lopont to thou their memorio 3 A little 0 more than ono one year yar ogo oo 00 alho olho the illustrious deceased gave expression to sentiments upon this subject which I 1 doom proper propel to here road imd he said wo hold reunions i eamons not for tho the dead for foi there is nothing in all the flit earth that hat you on and I 1 can call do loi for thod tho dmd end they are past our help belp and past our praise wo can add to thorn them no glory wo we can in RIVO give to thorn them no immortality they do not need us TIB but forever and forever more moio wo we need thorn them james A garfield was waa loin born in in orange Cuu Cuya hogo county olno ohio november 19 1831 gratha tied at wil liams college massachusetts in 1850 was pros ident ot of a literary institution for foi fici several oral years studied 1 and used law laoj was a member of tile the state senate of ohio in in 1859 GO 60 entered tho the union army in in 1861 ns as colonel of tho the forty second ohio volunteers was promoted to tha rank 0 of f brig angi dier general gen Gene eral ial january 10 1802 1862 was appointed chiot chief of staff of the army of the tha cumberland and was wai oil cd to the rink rank of major general sep gep leather 20 1863 wis was elected to the tha thirty eighth thirty ninth forty I 1 orty firby forty second F orty forty thill I 1 d and porty fourth congresses and WOT was re ra to tho the forty fifth gross ns as a republican 20 votes otea against 1130 votes vote for J S casement nt domoci Domo democratic cratic abic no nominee mince iio was a member of the electoral Electo nl commission of 1876 he will 9 elected united states sona tor LOT from ohio a position he ha did not ii fill illi having av been nominated as aa a can didato and elected to tho the office of chief magis crato of this nation alling ing tho the high position posidio n but a few mouths months whon when on last monday ovon even ingli ddn efell a victim met in to tho the ruthless luth loss hand of tho cho assassin through this mans aholo career I 1 doubt if our country has I 1 produced a citizen who hii has traversed tho numer oui mincia official I 1 paths patha beset as aa they are in our time with sloughs of danger and di dishonor s honor find mado made a grander record of gomino honor and patt hatnot biot ism isia and been a more moio noble defender defend ei of right light anil justice than james A garfield I 1 his Es f attitude and conduct is 13 well known whilo in C con on gross where wicked and unjust fit at tacks havo have buen botn mado made against tho the rights lights ot of tho the people of utah when others did not diro dare d iro oppose tho corpe tr a ti 10 n of flagrant wrongs upon a p proscribed to ascribed scribed people james A garfi garfield old tiring during several years of his con tos onal career had tho courage to do rig right ht to him softener than tonn to any other man ann did dolo dole gato in in congress appeal when vin vin dichko lie MO were attempted against tho the people of this monitory Toni Torr itoi tory y and to lus his great honor bo be it said those appeals were not in w vain ain ho was wai too great a statesman to trample upon constitutional 1 onal rights and too good a cb christian ris I 1 tian to endorse tion ilia is early history wit was marked by poverty anil and want at times his widowed mother and her little ones wanted even tho necessaries of life but even 0 1 tiring ui ing those these trying times that he te ie woman and her oldest son thomas economized their meagre means and sent james jamba to a district ethnol where began his bis ascent to the highest position in tho the land there is is much connected wit with th the history of this thia great man inart that is both pleasing and instructive to peruse ilo ho is nu ail illustration of alio fact found coart in this thia country ol of tin tho child of payer ty find and low estate surmounting nil 1111 these cheso obstacles and taking the highest position in tho the gift of tho the deop people I 1 c in an ail address delivered at it patterson Putters august ath 1890 by the deceased ho he expressed himself ng its follows to nil all our moans means of culture is ia added that powerful incentive to personal ambition which springs from the genius genii of our government tho the pathway to honorable distinction lies open to nil all no post of honor so HO high but tho the poorest boy bo fully hope to reach reach it it is tho the pride of ivory every american that many cheris cherished lixI names at whoso choso mention our hearts beat with it a quicker bound worn by tho the bons of poverty who conquered obscurity and became fixed stars in our firmament firina ment no better illustration of himself could bo be given ina indeed hiis has ho be become a fixed star in our firmament firmage rit of groat great men and as ho he left tho the 11 nation a in tho the day of lis his greatest usefulness the people have occasion to mourn his loss find and to deplore the terrible torri blo moans means which wrought this sorrow in ill the land monarchy Monarch 3 in other lands landa while surrounded find and guarded with soldiery fall victims of the assassin who claim this its as the moans means of extricating themselves from the yoke of tyranny j but it is ia terri terrible blo to contemplate that here bore in our tree free land where tho the chief mingles with and walks upon the highway trod tied by tho the humblest citizen there can bo ba those found so vilo lis to take the lifo life of so BO bravo brave a champion of liberty this is ia the second time tho the nation nat ion has been called upon to mourn tl loss of its president from simi hands hand and it is is a singular coincident coincide ne thattie that tho second victim should have boon selected in in 1866 to express tho the nations sorrow over tho the assassination of president lincoln which I 1 will vill read lead to you as follows or oil representatives SATURDAY apt lui 1114 1116 1866 tho the house iloilo met tit at 12 in prayer by tho the chaplain liev bev 0 B D boynton it on motion of 0 mr garfield Garfi old the reading of tho the journal of yeb dispensed with mr mi garbic garald ld said mr mi speaker kei I 1 desire to tomodo move that chii th is house do now adjourn anabo mill be fore tho the vote upon that motion is taken I 1 desire to say a few words thi thise it s day mr mi speaker will bo be sadly able so BO long iong as this nation shall endure end in e which god grant giant may time whon when tho the ol oe human history hist try settled sealed up tip and delivered doli v ered to tile tho omnipotent judd 0 o in ill all future the recurrence of this chiy day I 1 doubt not that tho the citi zons of this republic will w ill moot meet in in solemn assembly bombly as to reflect on i 4 lile life it and d character chai acter of abraham I 1 olal oln and tho the awful tragic event ol of apri annl 11 1805 an event unparalleled in tho the history of nations certainly nil mi paralleled elod in in our oui own it is is eminently proper that this house should Effi this day day place upon its records a memorial of that event the iho last five years havo boon mark oil ed by wonderful developments of i in character thousand of if our people poo le before unknown to tamo fanio have liken ta ell their places in in history histon crowned with immortal honors in r n thousands of hemblo lin niblo homes anro di dwelling velling heroes and patriots ts whose names name s aall ahall novel never dio die but greatest gio trost among oil all those these great developments were the character and famo f a me of abraham abiah im lincoln whose loss the he nation still deplores hn his character is 13 aptly described dos cubed in tile tho voids of En england glands s pleat laureate written thirty years ago in which ho he traces tho the upward steps of some ivinsky Oivin ply gifted ri nin whose ilia do in 1 low estate begin and on a sini amplo plat village graun who V lio breaks his births invidious bar and grasps rasp I 1 lie he skirts ol of li y and brendli ill tha blows of stance and with will his ovi evil I 1 star who makes malisby ma kisby by force hla trial it known and lives to clutch tile ilia wolden keys kay to lu triad it 11 staton decrees and shape the whisper ol of tile iba abrone and nd moving up tip from froat high to higher flo comeR on loiti ine crowning slops slope the pillar of a Pe looi ids chopo the cont centre ro of loftt a corids wor d 8 desire such stich a life nud and character will bo be treasured treasur td forever its as tho the sacred pos poa sessi bassion orl of tile tho Amo american ricart people and of mankind in tho the great gloat drama of the tha rebellion there were two nets acts the first was the war with its battles aad its victories vic tonea and defeats its sufferings and tears that act was closing one year ago tonight to night and just as tho the nin was lifting liftin on 0 n the second scene anti and final aw act tho restoration of peace and liberty just hist as tho the curtain cm tain was rising on now and now events tho the ovil evil of tho the rebellion in the fary of despair nerved find and directed tho the hand of an assassin aas aasin to strike tho the chief character 0 both it was no ono one man who killed abraham lincoln it diw I 1 the honlio blied spirit of anil and anon I 1 non ill in spi 1 od with f t I 1 fill find and hiti 1 11 t etlina that serl shuck i allt lum him down in fit tho moment U 0 neat 0 f thu the nations joy bir ir there urn arti times in in tile wiktory of men find and nations when the they stand so 11 conr tho mil that hepa separates rates inci tills horn front immortals atals t tune into from eter del clity and men lien from their god lot that ill hey I 1 can almost hear the gaitings be bai fill tings I 1 clio puli guiona of t tho he hoft bonit 0 f tho the infinite through sueh a ling has this nil tion p isaid whon A lion two hundred find and lifty fifty thousand branci biao nashed from tho the neld field of honor through that thin voil eil in m the presence pios of led god and whon fit at last its parting folds admitted the Jent to the alio com coin kauv of those doud dead herbes of tho the ito 1111 latif public to tho the nation stood so ao near the ell eil that tho of oe god boio ivero board by tile the chil ren of men inon awo ave stricken by his hia voice bici the american people knelt knell ill in tearful reverence lOM ienco and enado it solemn covenant with him and with each cach othir that nation should be ba saved from its that all its glories laues luu es should bo be restored ind find on tho the ruins raw of slavery find and treason the comilos of freedom and justice bv be built and should survive fo royer it remains for foi us ua consecrated b by tint that great event find and under a coven y ant with god to keep that faith to to go forward ill in the great work tint it shall bo be completed following my tho the load of that great man mail find and obeying tho the hi high ill hollet of jed god lot us remember th that t HB libia forth a that idsall never cull call ieti oat lie iia la 18 out ilia file am irla or of nion inon before ills judgment seat mat be swill nily my aou soul 1 to answer anni lie be jubilant my feet ficeti god lii Is alitt citing ell V I 1 move moo sir that this house do now adjoin u iho motion was unanimously agi ou it to and thereupon at fifteen min uto E afta r 12 oc loLk the bouso in those dark and perilous timos times of our country countey immediately following I 1 assassination of Pic eident on t lin jin an no stronger mm arm was put to save our oui ship of state beato f from tom anarchy and ruin ruin than that of james A garfield when hon tho the startling futai aling news of the iho at tempt upon pi president gru TALIs life reached this thia city saturday morning minds of mon men instine instinct noly y verto 1 to the only like 1 1 l can history it wag wa on oil Satui batu iday lel a y morning april 15 1865 tint that now new york learned of tho the mur amder dor ot of president lincoln the iho news was tit at hist first it received cenca with incredulity then ihen as tho the awful truth was confirmed tho the excitement became inex pies pres sibly intense thebe was wai one great outpouring of tho the deepest boi sorrow low mingled with horror honor and in in dilation di mation A gerneral ger teral gloom pervaded ded the entire community dismal dis me I 1 masses of crapo and half masted 11 nags 1 everywhere ap appealed but tho the feol fel 11 ing ot of grio fund and execration was wag not tile tho only ono one which found expression tipi ossion in tho the throngs throng 3 which burgod through tho the street shod tho the spirit of revo lozenge ligo had bad broken out an doine desire to malio make fiort work with anyone who was oven even suspected to bo be in sympathy with rebellion leb ollion already Al it was tot arted two or thieo bree men had been j tilled lulled and riot not md and slaughter seemed imminent out at noon tin an immense mass masa bootin mooting yas Y as aa held h id in in well all in i front of tle the custom honeo at which add addresses were made mado by many prom anent citizens ono one of tho the inott im im p 0 of these which is la now low invested with it a special interest mt was wai delivered by general garfield Guru eld it is is said that clint hm his words had a mh marvelous el effect in in quieting tho lie passions of tile tho multitude iio he as follows I 1 have just reached beached this city from washington the iho night before tho the assassination of abraham lincoln therewa was held a 0 mooting meeting at which wits w is expressed tho the gloat joy of tho the nation as it was never expressed d be fore in in view biow of 0 tho the gaoat victories victores vic tones which had bad ci owned crowned our firms arms and now it ins has found this terrible con in in tho the news which las reached us from that i place laco by this last net act of madness it seems as thou though b tho cho re ie bellion had determined that the ahe pi esi dent of tho the soldiers should go with the soldiers who havo have laid down their lives liveson on tho the battlefield they slow slew tho the noblest and greatest heart hoail that oer ever put down a rebellion on this eai arab th I 1 desire not to boom irreverent in in saying that it seems beems to mo me he al most touched the i parallel of the iho son of god who died saying sit 11 1 father ather forgive them for or they Iley know Know not net what they do but in in taking tilting that life they lavo havo left tho the iron blind h ind of tho the people to fall upon them love is 11 on tile the |