History of Muskingum County, Ohio ; with illustrations and biographical sketches of prominent men and pioneers, 1794, Part 48

Author: Everhart, J. F; Graham, A. A., Columbus, Ohio, pub
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: [Columbus, O.] : F.J. Everhart & Co.
Number of Pages: 600

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The following is a translation of the above, which is given for the benefit of the English reader :

OUR PRESIDENT IS DEAD.

"Garfield's last words were, 'It hurts " And . It hurts !' groans the whole Nation in gloomy sorrow.

"After eighty terrible days of suffering, the 19th instant, at 10:35 P. M., death snatched our twentieth President from his people. His wife and two children were with the physicians at his

death-bed. At ten minutes past ten, a severe pain had suddenly siezed upon his breast, and soon made him unconscious. With the anxious eyes of his faithful wife on him, the sufferer breathed forth his great soul. But he will sur- vive all of us, in history and in the hearts of the people, by the side of a Washington, a Jefferson, a Jackson, and a Lincoln, as a genuine model of a great American, who had risen from the dust of a lowly country house, into the light of the highest place of honor in the world ; work- ing from station to station, as laborer, mule- driver, country school teacher, student, citizen, soldier, Congressman, and Senator ; as brilliant orator and learned statesman, always with iron energy and gigantic will-power. Ovations are tendered to his memory, so sincere, as no "he- reditary" king, or "ruler by the grace of God," could have procured for himself; and the most fervent sympathy is offered to his aged mother, and his noble wife, with her five children.

"The corpse is to-day taken, first to Washing- ton, and will, on Monday, be buried near Cleve- land. The immediate cause of his death, was a secondary bleeding from an artery touched by the bullet, which, amounting to as much as a pint. pressed upon his heart and caused his last great pains. At the autopsy a pus cavity was found, six inches long ; and a pus canal, leading down to the groin. His breast was badly affect- ed, but no pus in the lungs ; but there was an affection of the left kidney. Pus had also been found in the soft matter of the lumbar vertebra, where the bullet had passed and driven small pieces of the gristle into the soft parts near. The bullet was found encysted, about two and a half inches to the left of the spine. It had taken two hours to find it.

' From the whole country the news comes of the most general participation in the mourning, and its profound sincerity. In many cities, not only public, but also private and business houses are draped in black ; and yesterday, activity had almost entirely ceased."

The following remarks on the death of Presi- dent Garfield are taken from the Zanesville "Courier," and appeared in that paper the day after the funeral :

"IN MEMORIAM .- Amid the gloom which enshrouds the Nation at the death of James A. Garfield, the citizens of Zanesville assemble to do honor to the memory of the illustrious dead-A funeral pageant of mournful grandeur traverses our streets, and touchingly tender me- morial services are held, participated in by the whole people !"

"The mortal remains of James A. Garfield have been committed to the tomb, there to rest until the last great day, when earth and sea shall give up their dead. In every city, town, and hamlet, throughout the United States, habili- ments of mourning, for days past, have betokened the grief of a stricken people. Long, mournful funeral processions, yesterday, marched through the streets, and the last sad tributes of respect

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due from the living to the dead, were rendered with becoming solemnity. In all these duties, the citizens of Zanesville and the Muskingum Valley, from the moment the grand, heroic bat- tle for life was ended, to the hour when the loved form of the illustrious dead was committed to its kindred dust, have not been lacking, in the smallest detail. The solemn memorial services of yesterday were fitting evidences of the love and affection borne our late lamented President by the people of this city, and the success attend- ing every feature of the mournful ceremonies, must have been highly gratifying to the various committees in charge, as well as to the commu- nity at large.

"The Grand Marshal, General R. S. Granger, had issued an order for the various civic and re- ligious organizations to take part in the memorial parade, to march promptly to the rendezvous ap- pointed for the three divisions, at one o'clock, so as to be ready to move a half hour later, but a furious rain storm swept over the city at the hour named for assembling, and a change of pro- gramme seemed necessary. The storm threat- ened to continue throughout the afternoon, but, owing to a want of means of communication with the various bodies, no concerted action could be taken, so that nothing could be done but await developments. The Lodges and so- cieties continued their preparations for the par- ade. hoping that the storm would break and fair weather render the consummation of the pro- gramme possible. At half-past one, the dark, lowering clouds began to part, and patches of clear sky were revealed, in the southwest. Fif- teen minutes later, the sun reappeared in his majesty, and at two o'clock, amid tolling bells, and the firing of minute guns from Putnam Hill, the tread of battalions marching to the rendezvous notified an expectant public that the parade would take place. The thoroughfares over which the column was to pass were extremely muddy, but no one complained. At a quarter of three o'clock, the signal for the start was given, and the First Division, under command of Colonel C. C. Goddard, filed out of Seventh into Market street, moving castwardly. Then followed the Second Division, under command of Alexander McConnell, from its rendezvous, on Fifth street, and Colonel G. D. Munson's Third Division, from Sixth street. The order of formation was as follows :

FIRST DIVISION. Garfield Guards, leading their horses. Bauer's Band. City.Postmaster, and Employes at the Postoffice. County and City Officials, Cyprus Comumnandery, K. T. IIazlett Post, No. 81, G. A. R. Ex-Soldiers and Sailors. Officers and Orators of the Day in Carriages.

SECOND DIVISION.

Drum Corps. Ancient Order of Hibernians. St. Patrick Benevolent Society. Father Matthew Temperance Society.

SECOND DIVISION-Continued.

St. Thomas Benevolent and Literary Society. Knights of Labor. St. Nicholas Society. St. Joseph Society. Young Men's Hebrew Association.

Members of the High School. Pupils of, the Publie Sehools. Guiding Star Lodge, G. U. of O F.

THIRD DIVISION.

Barlow, Wilson, Primrose & West's Minstrels. Barlow, Wil-on, Primrose & West's Band. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. MeIntire Lodge, Knights of Pythias. Independent Order of Rechabites,

Patriotie Order Sons of America. Citizens on foot and in earriages. City Fire Department.

LINE OF MARCH.

The line of march, as announced by the Grand Marshal, was strictly adhered to : East on Market to Underwood ; south to Main ; west on Main to Third : south to South street; east to Sixth, and north on Sixth to the McIntire Acad- emy lot. . The funeral pageant, of deep and mournful grandeur, moved quietly through the streets, the silence only being broken by the weird notes of the funeral dirges and the muffled beats of the drums. Every man and boy in the line seemed to be impressed with the deep solemnity of the hour, and the quietness which reigned was in striking contrast to the order maintained in funeral processions under the most favorable cir- cumstances. The column moved in sections of eight, a most difficult order, even for trained troops, but the alignments were well preserved, and the spectacle thus presented was grand be- yond description. Scores of flags and banners were carried at the head of the various orders. all draped in sombre hues. A banner, worthy of special mention, was that borne aloft at the head of the brigade of Odd Fellows. It was executed by Jacob Hinig, and represented the Goddess of Liberty, rising from a cloud and in the act of crowning Lincoln and Garfield. The portraits were faithful to nature, and the concep- tion so clever that when the banner appeared in sight, the beholders reverently lifted their hats as it was carried by. Bauer's Band, near the head of the First Division, discoursed splendid music. and the famed musical organization of Barlow. Wilson, Primrose & West's Minstrels, attracted very general attention. By the courtesy of Prof. John Bauer, this band was supplied with the score of appropriate funeral marches, and the musicians only began the rehearsal of the music the morning of the parade.

All along the routes of march the sidewalks were densely packed ; the spectators looked on in painful interest, and hundreds were affected to tears. Never in our history had such a scene been presented. The procession arrived at the McIntire Academy lot a few minutes before four o'clock, and the column was massed in front of the heavily draped stand. A chorus of seventy-

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five voices. selected from the church choirs of the city. under the direction of Prof. Lilienthal, rendered a special programme. Chas. E. Mun- son and Robt. Miller presided at the organs. The singing was grand beyond description, and reflected credit upon the committee, Messrs. James A. Cox, Hiram Waller and J. J. Ingalls, in charge of that department.

THE OFFICERS OF THE DAY.

The officers of the day were as follows : President-Hon. W. H. Ball.

Vice Presidents-Mayor W. N. McCoy, Thomas Griffith, Judge H. L. Korte, Joseph Quales. Robert Lee. H.C. Van Voorhis and T. S. Murphy.

After order had been restored, Judge Ball arose, and with great emotion, which he could not restrain, said : "I am called to preside over this meeting, and it is no ordinary duty, but it will be one of no difficulty. You are called upon to perform a solemn service in the presence of a great calamity, such as has never befallen this people. The late President Garfield has been called to his Maker, in the heighth of his useful- ness. and while the people mourn with saddened hearts. they are ready to say, amen. When President Garfield was called hence, he had, in an unlimited degree, the confidence of the whole people. He was stricken down by an assassin whose crime reached fifty millions of people, whose venality is without a parallel in history. When a man like President Garfield is stricken down by a villain like Guiteau, the people do mourn. More than this, I, perhaps, ought not to say now, but allow me to add that since that fatal shot was fired, I have been south of Mason and Dixon's line, and have talked in all confidence with men who served in the Confederate army, and with women who sympathized with the re- bellion. Allow me to say, that their sympathy for the stricken President was as great as yours, and their horror at the awful deed as intense as any people on earth. I have often wondered why one scoundrel was permitted to commit such a crime, and inflict such a disaster upon a people, but I suppose some good will come from it. It must be so, I suppose. Guiteau had the power, but it must never again be so under any circum- stances of power. The choir will now sing

"Nearer My God, to Thee."

The great audience bowed in silence, as the beautiful hymn was sung with marked effect, and the Rev. J. McK. Pittenger offered an elo- quent prayer, which was published in yester- day's "Courier.'

"Asleep in Jesus,"

by the choir, followed, and then Judge Granger was introduced by the President. He said :

"On the 26th of September, 1881, a spectacle is presented, the like of which no other day in the history of the earth and man has seen. A nation of fifty millions of people, occupying more than half of the habitable portion of a continent, is assembled to bury its dead ruler. Other great nations from beyond the oceans of the east and

the west are spectators of the funeral rites, and sympathize with the bereaved people, as mourners for the great dead.

" When Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege passed amid sorrowing millions from the sea coast to his prairie home, our fellow men beyond the Atlantic were yet ignorant of the crime that had slain our second Washington. Three of the Southern armies had not surrendered, and the Southern people still yielded allegiance to Jeffer- son Davis. But almost before the dwellers at Elberon were sure that the soul of Garfield had gone to God, the midnight bells were tolling the sad news in Europe, as well as throughout America. It is to-day the wires that cross the continents and underlie the great seas that enable us to realize as a living fact how a "touch of pity reaches the whole world's kin."

"As we look upon him dead, it is fit that we think of the life and of the death. Although cut off before he was yet fifty years old, he had not lived in vain. Born in poverty, and compelled to labor in order that he might learn, before his forty-ninth year had closed he was the chosen Chief Magistrate of the strongest Nation of the strongest race of mankind. This rise came not by revolution, nor was it the result of the fickle choice of any potentate. Such causes gave to Rome Emperors who were born at the foot of the social hill ; but Garfield, by a steady tread, walked upward from laborer to student, teacher, State Legislator, General, Congressman, United States Senator and President. His life is a shin- ing example for the youth of our land. It does not teach that every poor lad can become the ruler of his country, or even one of the great men of his State; but from it we know that in- tellect, supplemented by industry, study, energy, temperance, courage, and a heart full of kindli- ness, mark out a broad highway for all who wish to be useful and happy in their lives, and to be followed to their graves by the loving sorrow of their fellow men.

"As James A. Garfield lay in bodily weakness and pain these many weeks, whatever of grief came to him was because future usefulness to his country seemed forbidden. His backward gaze saw days, and weeks, and years of duty faith- fully and ably done, as a pupil, a teacher, a Legislator, a Soldier, a Statesman, a Ruler ; and also as a son, a husband and a father. The essence of the happiness given him by such a retrospect, as well as enjoyed by him while days and years were being lived, consisted in what he had done, and done for others; not in the possession and the holding of offices by him ; not in the being a teacher, a General, a Statesman, or a Ruler, but in the faithful and successful doing of the duties of each post so long as he held it. And so doing, doing well the work and duty im- posed on him by his relations to others, he won success and happiness for himself, as well as for them. So doing, and doing for others, he lived a Christian life, for the essence of Christianity, as exemplified in the life of Christ himself, is the doing good for others."

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The speaker here presented a masterly anal- ysis of the dead President's character, which a want of space only prevents printing in full. His closing words were :

"God permitted death to remove our President. The assassin's shot disarmed prejudice. The Southern people saw that a man born at the North, trained in opinions the opposite of those most dear to them, elected Chief Magistrate by a party deemed by their record hostile to their interests, was a man of great heart as well as of intellect ; of great magnanimity, as well as of great industry ; in a word, that he was a man worthy of love and admiration, and not at all a man to be hated or condemned.

"And so Garfield-dead-will still live, a proof that there is no such difference between men of the North and men of the South as will prevent the earnest union of all Americans in love for their common country, and in patriotic effort to make theAmerican people the noblest Nation on the earth.

"Under God's will, Garfield did not die in vain.

CHANT-" Remember Now Thy Creator,"

was sung by the Barlow, Wilson, Primrose & West Quartette-Messrs. Howard, Kelly, Rad- cliff and Belknap. The first demonstration of applause offered at the Memorial Services fol- lowed this matchless performance.

Owing to the illness of F. H. Southard, he could not be present, and the audience was de- prived of what all knew would be a tender trib- ute to the memory of a great man.

Bauer's Band rendered the beautiful hymn,

"Thou Art Gone to the Grave,"

with great feeling.

A. W. Train spoke substantially as follows : " Mr. President-A brief review of the sickness of General Garfield will call to mind some very peculiar circumstances. The great distinguish- ing feature of the sorrow that hung around the President's bed, was the unusual interest taken in him by the people. He was not watched over alone by persons high in authority, and officers of great rank. The distinguishing feature was that everybody had an interest in the life of the President. There is some good reason for this. There was never anything before like the solemn funeral train from Washington to Cleve- land, that turned out to do reverence to the illustrious dead. The Mechanic in his shop, the farmer in his field, the laborer at his toil, paused in their work and looked on in mute sorrow, as the funeral cortege rolled on. It was the most remarkable exhibition of feeling ever witnessed in this country. The people do not sorrow be- cause a President is gone, but because Garfield is gone. I undertake to say, that General Gar- field was the most complete type of American character and American growth ever produced. If I address the carpenters, they will say, he represented us ; with the jack plane and saw, he worked at the bench. If I address the work- ingmen, they will say, he represented us ; with

his hands, he chopped wood at twenty-five cents a cord, and made a hand in the harvest field. at one dollar a day. If I address the students. they will say, he represented us, because he was a seeker after knowledge. If I address the liter- ary people, they will say he represented us. If I ask the statesmen, they will say, he repre- sented us. I undertake to say, that in general average, he was above all. Is it any wonder that the whole people bow in sorrow. and in mourning? The life and character of General Garfield will not be fully understood for many years. Like the lofty mountain, its grand dimensions are not appreciated until its solid base is uncovered. As long as General Garfield was in public life, he did not utter a proposition that did not meet the approval of his conscience. He was a politician, but without craft. Read him as you will, he was a most remarkable man. During the eighteen years of his public life. he discussed more matters of public interest than any man in the House of Representatives. His public utterances make volumes of records, and no man ever questioned the honesty of his state- ments. I saw General Garfield in Congress during a great discussion, when the entire North and South were looking on with almost breath- less interest. General Garfield was the repre- sentative of the North, and Senator Lamar of the South. The debate rivaled in intensity and power the famous discussion between Webster and Hayne, and yet the first man to congratu- late General Garfield at its close was the van- quished chieftain of the South. They never ha- ted General Garfield : he never insulted one of their representatives, or that people. General Garfield will be mourned as long as the Republic lives. It makes it a little bitter to reflect that he fell by the hand of an assassin, but our Govern- ment and institutions are not dependent upon the life of any man. Whenever any Govern- ment depends upon the life of any single individ- ual, it will go down. In the language of the fallen hero: "God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives."

A double male quartette sang the hymn. " In- teger Vitae," with wonderful effect. and then Rev. George F. Moore delivered the closing ad- dress, which was as follows :

"Mr. President-My fellow-citizens :-- As I listened to the eloquent tributes which have been paid by the preceding speakers to the memory of our lamented President, I felt the force of what an old time preacher said, " what can the man do that cometh after the King? Even that which hath been already done.

"I shall not, therefore, speak in any extended way of President Garfield's life : I shall attempt no eulogy of him, whose highest praise is the silent grief of the civilized world to-day. But there is one light in which I would set his death. We may regard it as a monstrous crime. in many respects without parallel in history : we may regard it as an overwhelming calamity, but I would rather look upon it as a great sacrifice. "He gave his life for his country. If he had

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fallen on that September day, eighteen years ago, while riding into the jaws of death, he ran the gauntlet of Longstreet's sharpshooters to save Thomas and the army, all would have said : He laid down his life for us. To-day the offer- ing is more precious ; the sacrifice is not less real.

"There are two senses in which he died for his country : First, in that it was through no fault of his that he fell. The assassin had no grievance of his own to avenge. He represented an idea which is the curse of American politics-the idea that offices, which are public trusts, should be the reward of party service. And you and I are in our measure responsible for the existence of the state of things which made it possible even for a mad-man to conceive such a crime.

"Then Garfield died for his country in another sense-for the good of his country.

"If all good citizens are brought to see the evil of the spoils system, and to unite their efforts to overthrow it, the death of the President will have done for the reform of the Civil Service more than even he could have accomplished in his life.

"The way in which the weeks of watching over the sick, and in these days of mourning for the dead, party and sectional division have disap- peared, has been already remarked.

"But there is, I think, something more than this. The last few weeks have shown that in the heart of the American people there lay unsuspected, even by themselves. the possibility of a magnifi- cent personal loyalty. It has been often said that the practical turn of the American mind pre- vented that idealizing, that hero making and hero worship, without which personal loyalty is impossible. Men have even said that loyalty is one of the chivalric virtues which is dead in the modern world. But what monarch in the palmy days of chivalry ever received the tribute of a loyalty as spontaneous, as splendid as that which this American people has displayed in these last weeks?

"Where was there ever such a triumphal pro- gress as that journey of the wounded President from Washington to Elberon? And that loyalty will not be buried in the grave by the lake side. It will be transferred to his successor in office, and will insure him the generous confidence and support of all good citizens.

"It is a costly sacrifice, but if, by it, long es- tablished abuses are overthrown ; if a long prayed for reconciliation is cemented in his blood ; if a new and generous loyalty is born, he would not count it too costly. When, at the beginning of the war, he resolved to offer his service to his country, in the field, seeing how completely that step broke up all his plans, he wrote: "It is not without regret that I look upon the ruins. But if, as the result of the broken plans and shattered individual lives of thousands of American citi- zens, we can see. on the ruins of our old National errors a new and enduring fabric arise, based on larger freedom and higher justice, it will be a small sacrifice, indeed. For myself, I am con-

tented with the prospect, and, regarding my life as given to my country, am only anxious to make as much of it as possible, before the mort- gage upon it is foreclosed. Be it ours to see that this precious sacrifice is not in vain !"

The solemn memorial services were appro- priately closed with the National anthem, "America," and as the choir repeated the words of the first line,

" My country, 'tis of thee,"

a great hush came over the audience, and many eyes were suffused with tears.

General Ball asked the people to disperse quietly, and feelingly requested that the good order which had characterized the services throughout, would be maintained during the evening. Rev. Mr. Willifer pronounced the benediction ; the various societies then marched back to their halls, and the memorial services in honor of the late lamented President, James A. Garfield, were ended.

CHAPTER XV. WATER WORKS.

The first attempt in Zanesville was made by David J. Marple and Wyllys Silliman, to whom the City Council granted the privilege of laying pipe and building a reservoir. The ordinance authorizing this work was passed in May, 1816, and the water works inaugurated in 1817.

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History of Muskingum County, Ohio ; with illustrations and biographical sketches of prominent men and pioneers, 1794, Part 48

Author: Everhart, J. F; Graham, A. A., Columbus, Ohio, pub Publication date: 1882 Publisher: [Columbus, O.] : F.J. Everhart & Co. Number of Pages: 600

Author: Everhart, J. F; Graham, A. A., Columbus, Ohio, pub
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: [Columbus, O.] : F.J. Everhart & Co.
Number of Pages: 600