Identifier: ridpathshistoryo07ridp (find matches)
Book Title: Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio : Jones Brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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sidents condition. The convictiongrew day by day that he would ultimately re-cover. Two surgical operations were per-formed with a view of improving his chancesfor life; but a series of relapses occurred, andthe President gradually weakened under hissufl^ering. As a last hope he was, on the 6thof September, carefully conveyed from Wash-ington City to Elberon, where he was placedin a cottage hotel only a few yards from thesurf. Here for a brief period hope again re-vived; but blood-poisoning at length ensued,and the patient sank day by day. At last, onthe eightieth day after the shot was fired,namely, on the evening of September 19th,the annivesary of the battle of Chickamauga,in which Garfield had won his chief militaryreputation, his vital powers suddenlv gave wayunder exhaustion, and in a few moments deathclosed the scene. Through the whole periodof his prostration, he had borne the pain andanguish of his situation with tiie greatest forti- 206 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD.
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ASSASSINATION OF PRKSTPF.NT GARFIELD. THE UNITED STATES—LATEST PERIOD. 207 itude and heroism. Nor can it be doubted thatthe great crime which laid bini low heightened,rather than eclipsed, the luster of his life. On the following day Vice-President ChesterA. Arthur, then in New York, took the oathof ofBce, and immediately repaired to Wash-ington. For the fourth time in the history ofthe Republic, the duties of the Chief Magis-tracy were devolved on the Vice-President. Thefuneral of Garfield was observed first at Wash-ington, whither the body was taken and placedin state in the rotunda of the Capitol. Hereit was viewed by tens of thousands of peopleon the 22d and 23d of September.Garfield had chosen Lake View■Cemetery, at Cleveland, as the•place of his burial, and thitherthe remains were conveyed, byway of Philadelphia and Pittsburg.As in the case of Lincolns death,the processions and ceremonies enroute became a continuous pageant.•On the 26th of September the bodywas laid in i

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