Excerpt from Garfield, the Ideal Man: An Address Delivered Before the Geauga County Teachers' Institution, at Burton Ohio, Wednesday Evening, August 9, 1882, and the Portage County Teachers' Institution, at Ravenna, Ohio, Tuesday Evening, August 17, 1882 It seems but yesterday since the fatal deed was. Done which bereft us of that precious life, and, amid the tears of mill ions, we bore our murdered President to his resting-place at Lake View, and we have scarcely yet emerged from the shadow of that great cloud of sorrow which so sud denly spread like a pall over the Nation; but, as it is slowly passing, we may begin to discern its silver lining, as we trace, . Though dimly as yet, the outlines of the earthly career of him whose loss we all so deeply deplore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.