The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3972, 21 September 1881, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1881.

Amebica is to day mourning the death of her first citizen—an able, good, and virtuous gentleman. For a brief period, the , physicians who attended President Gar-1 field were sanguine of his recovery, but of late a change occurred which gave rise to the gravest apprehensions for his safety. Inflammation set in, and we today have the tidings of the sad result. President Garfield is one of the numerous instances we have of men raising themselves from obscurity to high social positions. At the commencement of his career in life, • Garfield occupied a very obscure posi'ion, but his rare talents soon raised him far above his station. By unremitting hard work, and the indefatigable exercise. of his great powers, he gradually mounted the social ladder, until he reached the apex, and became the chosen ruler ypf over fifty millions of people. From being a mere unit in '.be world, be succeeded in placing himself at their head. Unlike many noted men, who hare made for themselves an immortal name, he had not the advantage of birth or influence, and his success in life has been the result of sterling hard work. Raised to the grand position of First Citizen of the United States of America, .a position which we venture to say was most thoroughly merited, he scarcely wields his well earned power when the stern hand of Death deprives him of it—at the same time robbing the Great Republic of the leader in whom they had placed well merited confidence and trust. We deem it our duty to write this small tribute to the memory of a good and noble man, whose public career has been so unexpectedly cut short by the hand of a dastardly assassin. The Premier and Sir George Grey, speaking in the House of Representatives to-day, spoke in feelings of the deepest sympathy for the United States in their irreparable loss, and it has been decided to despatch a telegram containing a resolution to that effect. This is the least the House could do, and we thoroughly concur in their action in sympathising with a people now mourning the loss of their chosen citizen and president. _^