PRESIDENT GARFIELD

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 14, 1881

PRESIDENT GARFIELD.

As the whole civilized world was shocked by the brutal attempt to assassinate the President of the United States, July 2, so all, of every nation and party, are rejoicing at the prospect of his recovery. We are pleased to see the very general expression of sympathy for the President by the southern people, and hope it may be the means of securing more fraternal feelings between the northern and southern parts of the Union. The English papers say that no event, for many years, has so largely enlisted the feelings of the English people.

Perhaps the "true inwardness" of this attempt to destroy the President may never be known. But it is our settled conviction that the investigation of frauds has led to it. "The love of money is a root of all evil," and the life of the nation itself is of little value to some, compared to the low satisfaction they take in carrying out their nefarious designs.