The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield: Twentieth President of the United States, Including Full and Accurate Details of His Eventful Administration, Assassination, Last Hours, Death, Etc., Together with Notable Extracts from His Speeches and LettersBrown, E. E. (Emma Elizabeth)
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The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield: Twentieth President of the United States, Including Full and Accurate Details of His Eventful Administration, Assassination, Last Hours, Death, Etc., Together with Notable Extracts from His Speeches and Letters
Brown, E. E. (Emma Elizabeth)
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; Presidents -- United States -- Biography
Removal of the President's Remains.--Monument Fund
Committee.--Garfield Memorial in Boston.--Extracts from
Address by Hon. N. P. Banks.
On the 22d of October, Garfield's remains were removed from the public
vault in Lakeview Cemetery to a private vault on the grounds, there to
remain until the completion of the crypt, where they will permanently
repose.
A Garfield Monument Fund Committee was organized at Cleveland
immediately after the funeral, and contributions have been received by
it from all sections of the country.
Upon Thursday, the 20th day of October, Memorial services were held in
Boston at Tremont Temple. From the address delivered by Hon. N. P. Banks
we give the following extracts:--
"The history of the Plymouth colony of 1620, which preceded the
embarkation of the Massachusetts colony, was blistered with the results
of a bitter and apparently relentless destiny, against which it would
have been scarcely possible for any people but the Massachusetts
Puritans and Pilgrims to have secured a triumph like that which the
Deity they worshipped vouchsafed to them.
"Its founders were fugitives from England and exiles from Holland. They
gladly accepted the chances of suffering and death in the New World, to
gain liberty of conscience and freedom to worship God. For the first ten
years of its existence population increased slowly, and numbered but
three hundred souls in 1630.
"The Massachusetts colony, with which Plymouth was united, left the Old
World under happier auspices. It started with concessions and
congratulations from the Crown. The best men in England were ambitious
to share its fortunes. Winthrop, Saltonstall and Sir Harry Vane--'the
sad and starry Vane'--were among its leaders; and such men as John
Hampden, Pym, Oliver Cromwell, and many others of that heroic type, were
restrained from emigration at the moment of embarkation by the order of
the king. Four thousand families--twenty thousand souls--people of
culture, capacity and character, no decayed courtiers or adventurers,
but merchants, seamen, husbandmen and others devoted to the highest
interests of man, had landed in Boston in ten years from the foundation
of the city.
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