OBSEQUIES OF OUR LATE PRESIDENT.
By Editor
The proclamations of President Arthur and Governor Perkins requested the people to abstain from secular labor and meet for religious services at their respective houses of worship, on Monday, Sept. 26, the day of the burial of President Garfield. We can but express our regret that the arrangements for a procession prevented conformity to the request. But some of the pastors appointed to hold memorial services on Sunday preceding. Our meeting on Sabbath was according to this plan; the order of services is noticed in our editorial pages. It is a relief to the feelings of the mourning friends to know that the wound which the President received from the assassin was necessarily fatal, as we feared from the first, notwithstanding the favorable reports from time to time. While the reports were favorable we expressed this fear from the continued trouble of his legs and feet. This is accounted for in the injury to the vertebra, and shock to the spinal column. While many are expressing their fears that the assassin cannot be legally punished as he deserves, the thought presses upon us that the taking of the life of such a degraded wretch is no atonement for his outrage on human life and on the rights of this Republic. We hope he may be punished, for man's Creator has declared that the murderer is unfit to live. But we look to the final judgment as only sufficient to mete to him his deserts.