Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1881 — A Southern Paper on President Garfield. [ARTICLE]

A Southern Paper on President Garfield.

From the Vick ebiifi inttm.y ri<iraM. No President since the wa/. hats so Rlned on the good feeling 0f ihe uifcfern people President Garfield. While he hWfongs to a party that is not popular in the Botitfr, ft is admitted on all hands that he is acting Justly, ana fairly by this section, and ;is anxious to secure the commendation of the South era people. Laying all wretched party feeling a side in this time of notional disaster, the Southern deopJe hope and. trust that his valuable life will be saved! The attempt to assassinate a President of tbe tJnit#! States is horrible; the' Success of such an attempt would cover #ur citizens with grief and fill them Wlrb the 1 gloomiest foreboding. How times change/ and men Change with them f -If six months ago one- had,, tout the Southern people that toy this time they would her praying and hoping for thellfoof James A. Garfield, they would never have believed it. Now the first expression one heai's ou greeting -a fellow-citizen is, “I .trust to God he may live." No flame fe~ mentioned, fqr all are thinking of ttiepsftient martyr in the White House; Tile Sf/utbern heart la fired no more; it is wrung With sympathy. It prays that the President is stalwart enough to Svel