Eulogy on Our Martyred Chief Magistrate James A. Garfield Respectfully Dedicated to His Family 1888 city_olympia almost ecclesiastical — a president

almost ecclesiastical — a president translated

conjured from perturbation before any eye confirmed it

and uplift

freshly conjured from Leverrier's mathematics

its margins crowded with patriotic vignettes and signatories' portraits — a printer's argument that the words of 1776 still bound a country now learning what they cost

Eulogy on Our Martyred Chief Magistrate James A. Garfield Respectfully Dedicated to His Family 1888 city_olympia almost ecclesiastical — a presidentEulogy on Our Martyred Chief Magistrate James A. Garfield Respectfully Dedicated to His Family 1888 printed seven years after Guiteau's bullet found the twentieth president at the Baltimore and Potomac depot, this memorial tract carries the long mourning cadence of a republic still rehearsing how to bury its leaders. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,