morality. I would have those they send out among the people not ashamed to

acknowledge God, and to proclaim His interposition in the affairs of men,

enjoining such obedience to His laws as makes manifest the path of national

perpetuity and prosperity

 

--GROVER CLEVELAND, delivered at the Princeton Sesqui-Centennial, 1896.

 

_EULOGY OF GARFIELD_

 

(Extract)

 

Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death. For no cause, in the very

frenzy of wantonness and wickedness, by the red hand of murder, he was thrust

from the full tide of this world's interest, from its hopes, its aspirations,

its victories, into the visible presence of death--and he did not quail. Not

alone for the one short moment in which, stunned and dazed, he could give up

life, hardly aware of its relinquishment, but through days of deadly languor,

through weeks of agony, that was not less agony because silently borne, with

clear sight and calm courage, he looked into his open grave. What blight and

ruin met his anguished eyes, whose lips may tell--what brilliant, broken plans,

what baffled, high ambitions, what sundering of strong, warm, manhood's

friendships, what bitter rending of sweet household ties! Behind him a proud,

expectant nation, a great host of sustaining friends, a cherished and happy

mother, wearing the full rich honors of her early toil and tears; the wife of

his youth, whose whole life lay in his; the little boys not yet emerged from