IN MEMORIAM 
Jas. A. Garfield, President U. S. 
At the annual meeting of the United States Veterinary 
Medical Association, held in this city, Tuesday, September 
20, 1881, the following preamble and resolutions were 
adopted: 
Whereas, In the dispensation of Providence we are called 
to mourn the loss of the chief executive officer of the 
Nation, stricken down by the hand of the assassin while in 
the prime of an honorable manhood, in the full plenitude of 
power, and at the outset of a career that argued well for 
the peace and prosperity of our common country, and 
Whereas , In this sad affliction, which in some degree 
has become the heritage of the people, while we may not 
understand the inscrutable ways of God in this National 
bereavement, still we take hope and courage for the future 
in the assurance that “ God reigns.” The dead in these 
memorable words yet speaks. 
Resolved , That in this calamity, which the whole peo¬ 
ple had fondly hoped would be averted, a four-fold cord has 
been broken, the aged mother loses a son, the wife a hus¬ 
band, the children a father, the country its President. 
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Resolved , That while sorrowing, yet not without hope, 
while paying our tribute of affection to the Nation’s dead, 
we tender our loyal support to him who has been called 
to assume the direction of Governmental affairs. 
Resolved , That we further tender our sincere and heart¬ 
felt sympathy to the family of our late President, who, 
through this season of trial and suffering, have borne 
themselves with a becoming fortitude. A light has been extin¬ 
guished in the household, but the influence of a good man 
radiates even after death. 
Resolved, That a copy be forwarded to the family, and 
that they be published in the daily papers. 
