President Roosevelt with Senator Hanna, Leaving Milburn House.. Scene about the Capitol, Washington, While the Body Lay in State. Crowds in Front of the Capitol in Washington Honoring the Remains of President McKinley. The Interior of the Capitol at Washington, Where the Body of President McKinley Lay in State Carrying the Body into the Court House at Canton The President's Casket Procession Passing into the Court House, Canton, to View the Re mains President Roosevelt's Last Look at the Dead President McKinley.. Removing the Body from the Train, Canton The Bier, in the Capitol, at Washington. Scene about the Court House, Canton, While the Body Was Lying The Church at Canton, Where the Final Funeral Ceremonies Were McKinley and Roosevelt, Just Before the Election of 1900. Placing the Body in the Vault, Canton. McKinley Home at Canton The Shooting of President Lincoln Shooting of J. Wilkes Booth 286 The Shooting of President Garfield 287 The Closing of the Career of James G. Blaine 288 Last View of the Remains of President Garfield 289 Important Incidents in the Life of James G. Blaine. 200 The Wilcox Home in Which President Roosevelt Was Sworn In... 299 Transports Conveying the Army of Invasion to Cuba 294 THE WORLD SHOULD KNOW. In the memorable words of Garfield, that soothed the wild passions of a vengeful gathering in New York the night after Lincoln's assassination, "God reigns and the government at Washington still lives." And his words may again be as fitly spoken when we contemplate the hellish deed of the disguised hand of anarchy that destroyed a life so noble, so useful, so kindly and so charitable; that murdered without provocation, that killed without cause, that slaughtered without gain to even any odious principle, our country's President, the universally beloved McKinley. In this hour of bitter anguish let us remember and take to our hearts with all possible consolement the anodyne of scriptural promise which Garfield quoted with such effectiveness: "Clouds and darkness are around Him; His Pavilion is dark waters and thick clouds; Justice and Judgment are the establishment of His Throne; Mercy and Truth shall go before His face." Our sorrow breathes of a national calamity, and we shall not forget the virtues, the capacity, the talents, the acts of our fallen magistrate; but our grief shall not make us mindless of the mighty tasks of government which lie immediately before the administration, nor the loyalty which we owe the new President. The questions of the hour are serious, and they are many. Confidence is begotten by the pledge of President Roosevelt that the policies proclaimed and pursued by the lamented McKinley shall be his policies; that his purpose will be not to pervert, but to perfect; and may these exalted aims, as they appear consistent with our individual sense of right and justice, be promoted by the patriotic aid, the loyal devotion, the unfaltering service of every American. This book I believe will have an influence for infinite good in its teachings for better citzenship, in its exposition of the crimes of anarchy, in its elucidation, by graphic statement and elaborate comment, of the weighty questions that press hard upon the nation for prompt settlement according to the principles of strict equity and the highest good. In the day of our lamentation we cannot fail to feel that, however great, and good, and worthy to be apotheosized any man may be, his death cannot imperil the life nor stay the lofty destiny of this Republic; that the God of our fathers who established it is the God of the children who will sustain and strengthen it. Therefore, let us take courage to continue in our national well-doing; let us cover with monument enwreathed with palm and immortelles the grave of our stricken President, but push on with prayer and resolution, confounding the enemies of good government by patriotic attachment to our institutions and its lawfully chosen representatives. Sitzfungt het |