Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1881 — Awful Condition of Garfield’s Body [ARTICLE]

Awful Condition of Garfield’s Body

Day ten Journal. Of tbe embalming at Elberon, the New York Eveuing Mail says: “The result of thto operation at Elberon has l**en witnessed, as affected very unf ivornbly by the depli rable faet of; the w.nn.dod Body having been to the last degn-e emaciated and corrupted, so mu. li eo, that When the embalraer liftt-il ilie dead beloved President to a (aide tor tne performance of the gr» v.-us (ask, the epidermis covered by his hands gave way, slipping entirely from the putrid flesh beneath. Tbe brave, unoomplaiuing heart which throbbed to tire end of such a Promethean struggle would have teen wrung with anguish at the thought like this for the lowest life in the nation he governed." This is an astounding statement, yet a gentleman of tuts city, who was a surgeon iu tbe Union army during the rebellion, said to us weeks before the President’s death —“He cannot possilly lecover, he is simply rotting to death.” It is amazing that the President should have lasted so long.