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OARFIELD MEMORIAL: 
 
 A DISCOURSE 
 
 DELIVERED IN LUDLOW, SEPTEMBER 26, 1881, 
 
 LEWIS B. HIBBARD. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE CITIZENS OF LUDLOW. 
 
 LUDLOW : 
 
 WARNER & HYDE, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS. 
 1881. 
 

 Ludlow, Vt., October 10, 1881. 
 Rev. Lewis B. Hibbard. 
 
 Dear Sir : lu response to our owu feelings as a committee, 
 and in deference to the expressed wish of this community, we respectfully 
 request your consent to the publication, in pamphlet form, of the admirable 
 discourse delivered by you, at our invitation, the 26th. ult., in memory of 
 the late President Garfield. 
 
 Trusting that any personal feelings you may entertain will yield to the 
 public wish, we are Yours, sincerely, 
 
 Alfred J. Hough, G. I. Howe, 
 Geo. W. Billings, O. Gassett, 
 N. M. Pierce. 
 
 Ludlow, Vt., October 17, 1881. 
 
 Alfred J. Hough axd others. 
 
 Gentlemen: Yours of the 10th iust., soliciting a copy of 
 the Garfield Memorial Address for publication, has been received. I 
 comply with your request because I cannot well do otherwise. No one 
 knows better than I do the defects of the address, for it is neither sermon 
 nor eulogy, but an attempted union of the two. No preacher who has a 
 proper conception of his work is willing to degrade himself or his pro- 
 fession by using a text as a mere motto for a discourse, or a peg on which 
 to hang a series of reflections, even of a religious nature. Professor Shedd 
 has said of the true sermon, "Every discourse must be but the elongation 
 of a text." But the scope of President Arthur's proclamation for the day 
 necessitated a modification of the original plan, and the discourse, there- 
 fore, was made to embrace a wider range. As suggested at the time, the 
 real problem was what to omit, since the life and character of our lamented 
 dead were so fruitful of suggestive study. 
 
 I am aware that the solenmity of the occasion, the fusion of thought 
 and feeling incident to such an event, will be wanting in the printed form, 
 for, as Quintilian suggested, the reader misses something which the hearer 
 enjoyed. 
 
 I have ventured to make some slight verbal changes, and have inserted 
 a few paragraphs omitted at the time of its delivery. 
 
 Yours, Lewis B. Hibbard. 
 
 
DISCOURSE. 
 
 Psalm 97:2. — Clouds and darkness are round about him: 
 righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne. 
 
 The primary idea of clouds and darkness was of the terror and 
 wrath of God whom Israel had offended at Mount Sinai. Then 
 it came to have the idea wliich we naturally associate with it, — 
 that of mystery. The other expression of the Psalmist, " right- 
 eousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne," conveyed 
 first of all the idea of justice meted out to the transgressor — 
 which is the last thing the wrong-doer wants; give him anything 
 but justice. Then there came the secondary idea, of the right- 
 ness of God's conduct, or the righteousness of his reign. 
 
 Hence the language of the text involves this grand truth,— 
 
 THE MYSTERY AND RECTITUDE OF GOd's GOVERNMENT 
 IN HUMAN AFFAIRS. 
 
 We are a nation of mourners to-day, and we are not here for 
 words of eulogy alone, for this universal tender sympathy and 
 respectful affection for the dead is a grander eulogy than any 
 which human lips can utter. We stand here in the presence of 
 our sorrow — a sorrow as far-reaching as Christendom itself — and 
 looking up to Him whose throne is founded in justice and judg- 
 ment, and whose secret pavilions are girt about with clouds of 
 mystery, with reverent, humble hearts, we ask, "Lord, what 
 lessons of chastening, of admonition, of instruction; what reve- 
 lations of the grandeur of human character; and what signifi- 
 cance hath this sad event for us as a nation and for the world ? " 
 "Clouds and darkness are round about him;" the mystery oi 
 God's Providence. The poet speaks of 
 
 * * * " Tlie world's altar-stairs 
 That slope thro' darkness up to God ; " 
 or as David so beautifully expressed it when God had vindicated 
 both his character and his cause in the death of Saul and his sons, 
 . " He made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters and 
 thick clouds of the skies." In one of. those sad moods when his 
 heart was all attuned to human grief, Cowper wrote to an afliicted 
 
 friend these lines : 
 
 " He who knew what human hearts would prove, 
 How slow to learu the dictates of His love, 
 
Called for a cloud to darken all their years, 
 And said, "Go, spend them in a vale of tears.' " 
 
 When our joy seems most complete; wlien our sun is shining 
 in its noontide glory; yea, when we least expect and are 
 least prepared for it, the blow falls, our plans and hopes are 
 baffled and all the human heart can say in explanation is 
 " Clouds and darkness are round about him." In such a calamity 
 as this, the mystery seems appalling, but our very lives are hedged 
 about with mysteries, — yea, our pathway is paved with them. 
 Who can tell how this plant takes on its tints of beauty, another 
 no beauty at all; this one a rich foliage, another rarest beauty of 
 flower, all from the same soil and sunlight? Who can tell how 
 the immaterial spirit lays hold of muscle and brain and makes 
 them its obedient servants? Canst thou tell whence come the 
 thoughts of thine heart, or the motives which control thee ? Or 
 how the Spirit of God works its wondrous transformations in your 
 spirit, so that the things which you once loved are now hateful^ 
 and thino-s formerly unloveable are now endowed with heavenly 
 c^races ? Of old Nicodemus asked this question of the Saviour, 
 who only said, "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hear- 
 est the sound thereof ; but canst not tell whence it cometh or 
 whither it goeth. So is every one that is born of the Spirit." If 
 our most careful analysis, if our keenest vision, is baffled on the 
 very threshold of these inquiries into matters of everyday life, 
 shall we assume to solve the problem of that stupendous Provi- 
 dence which robs a great nation of its chosen head in the hour of 
 its greatest need, according to our judgment? 
 
 Said Dr. Dwight, perhaps Yale College's greatest President^ 
 " The Providence of God is the end for which the creation exists. 
 Creation is merely a collection of means; immensely magnificent, 
 indeed; an astonishhig display of contrivance; a sublime proof of 
 Almio-hty agency; but by itself inexplicable." A great student 
 of Nature, to the question of how these continents were builded, 
 how these mountain ranges were uplifted, and how the rocks on 
 all our hillsides were tilted into their present positions, modestly 
 replied, "Behold the cloud;" mystery— mystery— mystery. 
 
 But justice and judgment are the habitation of his throne; 
 rectitude is engraven on every page of God's Providences, as by 
 and by "Holiness unto the Lord" shall be written on the bells of 
 the horses. The sinning Jews seemed to taunt God as unfaithful 
 to liis people, but through the prophet Jeremiah the reply came. 
 
" Thus saith the Lord : If ye can break my covenant of the day 
 and my covenant of the night, that there should not be day and 
 night in their season, then may also my covenant with David my 
 servant be broken;" and looking up to those heavenly bodies, the 
 same as seen by Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, whose move- 
 ments do not vary one second in a thousand years, they knew that 
 God did not and could not change. Hence the rational basis of 
 that promise so full of comfort, " For I am the Lord, I change not, 
 therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed." The remark of the 
 observant Guizot had such a philosophical basis, ''Providence 
 hurries not himself to display to-day the consequences of the 
 principles he yesterday announced. He will draw it out in 
 the lapse of ages. Even according to our reasoning, logic 
 is none the less sure because it is slow." And in a forgetfulness 
 of this truth lies our peril. The patriot blood shed at Concord 
 and Lexington seemed cruel butchery, and in itself it may have 
 been, but God was working for our national iTulependence. Mr. 
 Seward thought ninety days and 75,000 men sufficient to put down 
 the rebellion, while emancipation, as a measure of God and 
 humanity, was not thought of seriously. But in his second Inaug- 
 ural, the martyr Lincoln saw, after four years of hard fighting, 
 .the handwriting of God, while the great truth gradually dawned 
 upon his rarely susceptible mind, and he wrote those memorable 
 words that can never die, " Fondly do we hope, fervently do we 
 pray that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. 
 Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the 
 bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall 
 be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn by the lash shall 
 be paid by another drawn by the sword, as was said three thous- 
 and years ago, so still it must be said, 'The judgments of the 
 Lord are true and righteous altogether.'" Christ went to the 
 cross as a malefactor, but he is recognized now in all the universe 
 as Zion's King. What seems to-day a great wrong will yet 
 appear an agent for good, for God maketh even the wrath of man 
 to praise him, and out of chaos he evoked this world of life and 
 beauty. Things perish which to our weak judgment ought to 
 live; great men fall, when we think they can least be spared; 
 decay and death lay their hands on that which we judge ought 
 to be immortal; but from each grave of all these our buried dead 
 comes back that voice divine, *' So then death worketh in us, but 
 life in you." Ruskin, in his pellucid style, states this great truth 
 
concerning the law of decay in Nature and its relation to life very 
 forcibly. "In the hand of the great Architect of the mountains, 
 time and decay are as much the instruments of his purpose as the 
 forces by which he first led forth the troops of the hills in leaping 
 flocks ; the lightning and the torrent, and the wasting and weari- 
 ness of innumerable ages, all bear their part in the working out 
 of one consistent plan; and the Builder of the temple forever 
 stands beside his work, appointing the stone that is to fall, and the 
 pillar that is to be abased, and guiding all the seeming wilderness 
 of chance and change into ordained splendors and foreseen har- 
 monies." What we most need is not the assurance that God is 
 rio-ht, but the faith to trust him. Over against our anxious human 
 questionings stands the Saviour's reply, "What I do thouknowest 
 not now, but thou shalt know hereafter." 
 
 Let us turn now from the Providence itself to its lessons or 
 significance for us as a people. First of all, God calls on us to 
 recognize the Christian character of the man who hath passed 
 away. " What constitutes a state ? " said the poet; and this was 
 
 his reply: 
 
 " Men who their duties know 
 
 But know then- rights, and, knowiug, dare maintain." 
 That was the ingrained spirit of General Garfield. There was 
 not only a recognition of his rights, but of all men's rights, 
 because they were men. This spirit of sturdy independence did 
 not, as in Robert Burns, run to excess, and so become a vice, but 
 it was his natural spirit sublinaed and harmonized by a deep 
 Christian experience. General Garfield was a man— a great man, 
 indeed; yea, more than that: he was a Christian man,— a man 
 who be'lieved in God and believed God. He did not eliminate the 
 divine element from his own conduct and life, nor would he elim- 
 inate it from the public affairs of the nation. Consequently, while 
 as a statesman he recognized the supremacy of the Constitution, 
 with all its amendments as integral parts of it, in all the land,— 
 and no statesman can do less,- as a Christian he recognized the 
 fact that those who wore the gray were men, that no endunng 
 reconstruction could be effected which ignored that fact; and the 
 grand memorial service a few days since at Chattanooga by the 
 "boys in blue" and the "boys in gray" was the South's loyal 
 tribute to the breadtii and genuineness of his Christian manhood. 
 This is Christian statesmanship, a recognition of the gospel spirit 
 in the national policy, and is the rarest and best gift any man can 
 
lay on the altar of his country; and hence the wide-spreacl and 
 profound sense of sorrow to-day in all parts of the land, verifying 
 the Scripture saying, " When the righteous are in authority, the 
 people rejoice;" and now that our righteous ruler is gone, all the 
 people mourn. 
 
 There were those a year ago who honestly felt that the nation 
 must have for its leader the "man on horseback," as he was styled; 
 not so much for the man himself as for what he represented, the 
 sword and the bayonet; reconstruction and national salvation by 
 stern and rigorous law. That there had been a need of heroic 
 political surgery for some years after the war, was undoubtedly 
 true; but the country had had it to its full satisfaction. God gave 
 his chosen people first the dispensation of the Law, and then came 
 the dispensation of the Gospel, " On earth peace, good will to 
 men." So with us, this new dispensation of permanent recon- 
 struction in the spirit and through the agency of Christian states- 
 manship was God's next gift to the nation, and James A. Garfield 
 was its apostle and martyr. Yes; and how the South, as well as 
 the North, was shocked at his fall; how they gathered about his 
 bed of suffering with a sympathy as tender, as genuine, and as 
 loyal as ours, and how they stand with us to-day beside his bier 
 and his gi-ave. Let there be no moi-e bloody chasm, — the heroic 
 Garfield threw himself into it and bade the Nation clasp hands 
 and be one over his newly-made grave; and shall we dare his dying 
 command disobey ? 
 
 After God's ancient Israel had crossed the Jordan into the 
 Promised Land, representatives of all the tribes gathered stones 
 from the Jordan's bed and with them builded a monument as a 
 national testimonial to all generations of the deliverance the God 
 of Israel had wrought. So let the visible, material monument 
 that shall yet be erected as our Garfield memorial be the joint 
 work of all the tribes of our American Israel, while the dead past 
 shall bury its dead issues forever, and we give ourselves to the 
 work he had so nobly and successfully begun, 
 
 God also calls on us for Gratitude for him as a National Gift. 
 Many young and brave men went down to early graves during 
 the war for the Union, and in their graves were buried forever 
 grand possibilities for themselves and for the nation. David saw 
 this truth in his day and wrote, "O, my God, take me not away 
 in the midst of my days." Had President Garfield been cut off 
 in his youth, when he returned to his humble home from that 
 
canal experience with his system full of malaria, would the nation 
 have suffered no loss? Reading, as we do our Hebrew Bibles, the 
 events of his life backwards, we see what was the courage of his 
 youth; his loyalty to that brave mother; what high moral convic- 
 tions and purposes filled his soul; what zeal for culture burned in 
 his young heart; what toil and privations he endured to secure it; 
 what manhood was wn-ought out in him; how early and decidedly 
 he took on the Christian life and character; what thorough, manly 
 work he performed everywhere; what services he has rendered the 
 nation; and how he fell at his post in the midst of his career. 
 Could such a life, with such deeds and character, as a personal 
 example and inspiration, and as the product of our American 
 Christian civilization, be all blotted from the page of our national 
 history, and the world suffer no loss? I tell you nay; that would 
 have been a calamity greater than his untimely death, for having 
 lived such a life and wrought such deeds, he " being dead, yet 
 speaketh." Though with Wordsworth we mny say, 
 
 "But yet I kDow, where'er I go, 
 That there hath passed away a glory from the earth," 
 
 we fall back on the precious promise of our God concerning the 
 righteous dead, " They rest from their labors and their works do 
 follow them." It is the projectile power of a Christian character 
 which thus survives the righteous dead as it survives no other 
 dead. When God enters a human heart and character there is an 
 added divine force in that life, — and God honors his own work, in 
 whomsoever found. No man can live a Christian life all the years, 
 as President Garfield did, and have all the force of that life die 
 with him. The sincere tokens of grief everywhere in all the land 
 attest the nation's appreciation of the man as he was and all that 
 he was, especially the Christian element of his character. 
 
 Shall I ask you to contrast the regal manhood and the service 
 of our murdered dead with the character and conduct of the 
 assassin whose diabolical act robbed the nation of its choicest 
 life? Nay; for while the moral instincts of the people see that 
 the one has been borne as on angels' wings to Abraham's bosom, 
 and though an outraged nation would quickly consign the other to 
 the eternal infamy of Judas and hasten him to his own place, imitat- 
 ing theChristian magnanimity of his victim we leave him in the hands 
 of Him of whom it is written, " Justice and judgment are tlie 
 habitation of his throne," and " Vengeance is mine, I will repay, 
 saith the Lord." 
 
But President Garfield is dead; and as I speak unto you, strong 
 men bear his body to the burial. Why did he die? what killed 
 hira? or, GocVs Call to National Duty. This is not the hour 
 nor the place to speak of the matter as a political issue. He fell 
 a victim to the false spirit of our public national life which God 
 has called upon us again and again to put away, and to whose 
 removal this man had given himself. Because there is a philoso- 
 phy of history, history repeats itself, and as a people we have 
 fallen into the line of other nations' experiences and histories. 
 The British troops had many reverses in their attempts to conquer 
 these colonies, while in the English Parliament William Pitt, 
 Burke, and others, were lifting up their voices against the king 
 and his counselors. The English arms had their Saratoga, but 
 would not yield until a retributive Providence sent a Yorktown. 
 So Pharaoh in rapid and cumulative succession saw the plagues 
 of frogs and rivers of blood, but hardened his heart against 
 righteousness, until finally outraged heaven sent the angel of death 
 smiting the first-born in every house in all the land, when the 
 people rose in their horror and madness and compelled the haughty 
 king to yield; just as Palfrey says the English people rose in their 
 might on the accession of Charles the First and asserted their 
 rights, which even the imperial Stuarts were forced to recognize. 
 Herbert Spencer instances Cromwell's failure to establish 
 permanently a new social condition of things in the realm, to 
 "show how powerless is a monarch to change the type of the 
 society he governs." Such transformations belong to both ruler 
 and people united, and hence the significance to us of Garfield as 
 a national opportunity. Prof. Edwards A. Freeman, the historian, 
 says in his Lectures on the English Constitution, "Our Constitu- 
 tion has no founder; but there is one man to whom \ve may give 
 all but honors of a founder, one man to whose wisdom and self- 
 devotion we owe that English history has taken the course which 
 it has taken for the last six hundred years." The service which, 
 according to the historian, the Earl of Leicester rendered the 
 English people in that wonderful thirteenth century, was in some 
 resjDects a prophecy of God's purpose to our people in the gift of 
 such a man as our deceased President, and his untimely death 
 changes not our duty or God's demands upon us. As a nation we 
 have waited till, as mercy's last resort, God has sent the death- 
 angel on his work, and we mourn to-day the loss of a chieftain 
 slain by a pernicious system which ought long since to have been 
 
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 •alDoIisliod. Pharaoh finally let Israel go, according to the divine 
 command, but his sin was so great that punishment followed, and 
 his army perished in the sea. Was it Jefferson who said, as he 
 thought of the sinfulness of slavery, " I tremble for my country 
 when I remember that God is just " ? Said Colonel Mason in the 
 Constitutional Convention of 1787, "As nations cannot be pun- 
 ished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable 
 chain of causes and effects. Providence punishes national sins by 
 national calamities." In that same convention Mr. Rutlege said 
 " Religion and humanity had nothing to do with the question" of 
 slavery. What was the reply of an avenging Providence in 
 1861-65 to such blasphemies? Did religion and humanity have 
 any interests at stake which the God of natione deemed it import- 
 ant to vindicate? Do you wonder that discerning Anne of 
 Austria said to Richelieu, " My Lord Cardinal, God does not pay 
 at the end of every week, but at the hist he pays " ? And the his- 
 tory of every civilized nation shows that national chastisement, 
 though long delayed, is sure ; " Because sentence against an evil 
 work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of 
 men is fully set in them to do evil," is the significant language of 
 Holy Scripture. That shot of July 2nd; those weary weeks of 
 uncomplaining suffering; that death down by the sea; and this 
 universal sorrow, is God calling the nation to its duty at this 
 hour, and we disobey at our peril ! 
 
 A World - Wide Prophecy is another significance of this sad 
 event. Of old the prophet said of that kingdom wherein dvvelleth 
 righteousness, " Of the increase of his government there shall be 
 no end;" generation after generation it shall enlarge and unfold 
 itself, till the stone cut out without hands becomes a great 
 mountain and fills the whole earth. The old Puritan was right, 
 in that God had much more light yet to break forth out of his 
 word. DeQuincey once suggested that many of the excellencies 
 and beauties of the human spirit are all unknown through lack of 
 possible expression, and, like the far-off" hillside flowers, their 
 loveliness is practically wasted, because none know and appreciate 
 their beauty and sweetness. In harmony with this idea was the 
 remark of a poet that 
 
 "The world knows notliing of its greatest men;" 
 
 which, if true, finds one explanation in the suggestion of Sir 
 Philip Sidney, that, "Common birds fly in crowds; the eagle 
 goes forth alone." But for all this God not only reveals himself 
 
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 to the world in righteousness and judgment, lest men forget his 
 unchanging supremacy, but he gives us occasional glimpses of the 
 constantly increasing enlargement of that kingdom wherein the 
 first great commandment with promise, and the second also, which 
 is like unto it, shall find cheerful recognition and obedience. 
 When the Son of God hung on the cross, Nature responded to the 
 suffering in awful darkness and rended rocks, while mankind gave 
 but little heed, though the event was one of transcendent human 
 interest. It was scarce known as a matter of any importance 
 beyond the limits of Jerusalem or its suburbs, and it probably 
 occasioned no more than a passing remark in the city of the 
 Caesars. But to-day when a great and good man is shot down 
 and lies suffering for weeks, not only his personal friends but the 
 nation itself, yea, all the nations of the earth, are gathered at his 
 bedside in waiting prayer and sympathy. This symj^athy is as 
 genuine and profound in London and Paris and Berlin and Vienna 
 and Rome itself, yea, in all civilized nations, to-day, as among us. 
 President Garfield's death comes not to them as a personal sorrow, 
 as it does to us, but their grief is none the less genuine. England's 
 noble queen lays her floral tribute on the casket of our dead, 
 while her court, with that of Spain, and perhaps others, goes into 
 mourning. As in the suddenness and brilliancy of the lightning's 
 flash, the darkness is lifted as far as our vision can reach, — so by 
 this sudden and great affliction God has swept away the subtle 
 sophistries of diplomacy and rifted the clouds, giving the world 
 to see the great golden bond of an universal brotherhood of man 
 as it has never been seen before. Abraham was " wiser than he 
 knew" when he voiced God's great law for the race, and one 
 whose teaven-born significance we see and feel to-day as the world 
 stands about this open grave, — "We be brethren." It is heaven's 
 world-wide prophecy; yea, heaven's pledge that the time hastens 
 when the earth shall be the Lord's from sea to sea, and from the 
 rivers to the ends of the earth. Philosophical Tennyson was 
 right when he wrote, in Locksley Hall, — 
 "I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose ruus, 
 And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." 
 
 Surely the Isles have not waited in vain for God's law; nor has 
 oppressed Ethiopia stretched her sable hands to God in vain for 
 help; the great fact of this Christian brotherhood of all nations, 
 races and tongues is at hand; and it was the Christian manhood, 
 the Christian heroism, the Christian statesmanship of President 
 
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 Garfield through which God has made it known as a fact and a 
 prophecy to the world. God has patiently waited these thous- 
 ands of years for the fulness of the time and for the man through 
 which this prophetically significant fact of human brotherhood 
 could be made known; and the honor of this high service has 
 come to us as a nation through the death of our loved national 
 chieftain. Well may the Simeons waiting for the new humanity 
 lift up their eyes, saying, " Lord, now lettest thou thy servants 
 depart in peace, according to thy word, for our eyes have seen thy 
 salvation which thou hast prepared before the face of all 2:)eople." 
 
 When all has been said of the heroism, devotion and Christian 
 faith of the President and his honored wife; of the domestic 
 purity, sweetness, and piety of that home, in upon which the eyes 
 of the world have intently gazed for weeks; our highest pride 
 and God's greatest satisfaction is in this, — that they did not stand 
 on lofty pedestals apart from the j)eople, but they stood forth as 
 the representatives of tens of thousands of homes, reflecting the 
 honor and glory of our true American Christian manhood and 
 womanhood. 
 
 Oh, what a sight for the angels to-day, to see fifty millions of 
 people turn aside from the nation's prosperous industries, from 
 their own multiplied cares and bitter griefs, to gather about this 
 one grave of their honored and loved chieftain. For long centu- 
 ries God has waited for just such a tribute, for such homage to 
 that which among men he j^i'izes most, — the worth of true 
 Christian character. It is an event which marks an epoch, not in 
 the world's history, merely; but one that marks an epoch in the 
 unfolding of God's eternal purpose, and an epoch in the passing 
 years of his own eternity. 
 
 Could there come to us at this time a voice from the casket of 
 our dead, would it not say, " As you cherish my memory, as you 
 love yourselves, your children, your country, and your God, for 
 my sake and for their sake, quit you like men; be strong in the 
 Lord. Prove your loyalty to the work I attempted by carrying 
 it forward to triumphant conclusion; let a united nation perform 
 for itself and for the race a greater work than I could have per- 
 formed, thereby revealing the higher wisdom of God in my death," 
 And as on the wings of sacred song we waft up to our God and 
 his God our praise and our prayer, let us go from this place to 
 the high and holy work as from his grave he commands us. 
 
GARFIELD MEMORANDA. 
 
 Born NtiveniLer 10. 18:51. 
 
 (Ti-aduateil at ^Villiains 'College, ISod. 
 
 In the Ohio Senate, 1859. 
 
 Entered t!u' Army, 1 s(i I . 
 
 Elected to C'ono-ress," ! stii'. 
 
 Electe<l to the United States Senate, 1880. 
 
 Inaugurated President, ]Marcli 4, 1881. 
 
 Sliot July 2, I8S1. 
 
 Died Septendu'i- lit, l>sl. 
 
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