An Address in Commemoration of James Abram Garfield
An Address in Commemoration of James Abram Garfield
George Dana Boardman
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Hear, then, O AmcM-ican Israel, what the Lord God is saying to us out of the whirlwind. Secondly. — God's summons to thankfulness. For even amid these appalling shadows there is more than one gleam of heaven's own light. MEMORIAL ADDRESS. 1/ And, first, let us thank God for the President's char- acter as it has been revealed, and, if I may so say, even forced out into involuntary, unconscious disclosure by the terrible compression of his tragic environment. The admirable, unbroken poise which h...e maintained amid sudden assault and abruptly impending death ; the lovino- thouo^htfulness with which, amid an excite- ment and consternation so intense as to unnerve the bystanders, he, while still prone and anguished in the station, dictated to his absent, invalid wife, a dispatch which will be enshrined in literature as a model of con- siderate delicacy and affectionate pathos ; the magnan- imity which no torture consequent on his assassin's brutality was able to ruffle ; the dignified, unaffected simplicity with which he received the elaborate atten- tions of great offfcials, and the stately tributes of foreign potentates ; the patience with which he bore his intense and protracted pangs ; the calm resignation with which he accepted whatever cup the Father might have given him to drink ; the unfaltering trust in God and country- men, and republican institutions ; the dauntless, tireless bravery with which he, a disabled and prostrate suf- ferer, in simple love of family, and country, and God, for eighty days fought back on every side the advan- 2 1 8 MEMORIAL ADDRESS.
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