Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-07-13

room-upstairs in the Presidents mouse
a room in which people that have
business with the President in regard
to Office sit till they are admitted 70
nrssent their claims. That the assas-
ain Is a man that u totally depraved,
and given to good and bad spelis' as IL
suits his purpose, is best told oS "na'
Hrs FATHER SAYs
in a letter written eight years ego 10
another 500 then 10 Boston, Mass:
mI have been ready to believe him capa-
BILE or almost any foliy, stupidity or RASCAL
i,v. The one possible excuse can rsnaer
| for him is that he is insane. indeed, II
was called Is a witness upon the stanu an
incIined TO think should testify that ne Is
absolutely insane, and is hardly responsioie
for his acts. Ny own impression IS tta'
unless something shall stop him IN mis- iei,y
and mad career he will become hopeiessiy
insane and a dit subject for the lunstic asy
lum. Before finally gave him up mao
exhausted all my powers OF reason ana per
suasion, as well as other resources, In en-
deayoring to control his actions and thoughts
but without avail. found he was deceit
full and could not be depended upon ir any
thing; stubborn, willful, conceited, ana ~
all times outrageously wicked, apparently
possessed of the devil. ! saw him once or
twice when il seemed TO me he was wiling
to do almost anything wicked he should
bappen to take fancy 20. You Will remein-
ber. perhaps, at the last conversation we
had about him told you to keep clear oil
him and not have anything to do with him.
Should ANYBODY ask about him now should
be compelled to say TO them that l thought
he was insane, or at least monomaniaci
and should there leave it and say no more
about him. His insanity is Of such char
acter that he is as likely to become sly,
cunning desperate as anything. Could see
him might possibly make another and Wig
orous effort to change the whole channel oil
his thoughts and feelings. II | could moi
do this | should have no hope whatever oi
being able to do him any good made NJ
nv mind long ago never to give him an
other dollar in money until should be con
vinced he was thoroughly huWbled and rad
icalIy changed ain sometimes afraid he
would steal, rob or do anything before hi:
egotism and self-cOnceit shall be Knocked
out of him, and perhaps even all that viii
not do it. So, you see, regard his case as
hopeless or nearly so. / know no othel
way but to dismiss him entirely from my
mind, and leave him entirely in the hand:
of his Maker, with a very faint hope that ne
can be changed either in this world or the
next"
The AssAssIN's PISTOL,
used IN the murderous werk against tht
President was a fve-cbsmbered revol
yer, shooting a A caliber ball, that Is
a bullet about seven sixteenth Of ar
inch in diameter
TIE CRIME.
The shooting of Abraham Lincoln
was a great crime, but in point o.
enormity it is not to be compared tc
the crime of shooting President Gar
field The shooting or assassination
of Lincoln was an act that under th'
then existing circumstances Nigh
have taken place any hour. He wa
the head of a system of governmen
that was engaged in crushing out {
: ! military rebellion that was intended
to perpetuate slave system of gov
ernment. 1t was indeed q war o
: two different systems of civilization
: for the mastery. Washington wa
\ full of spies in the interest Of tn
: slave power men that were In tn
pay of the secret service of the reb
3 ell government were spying ever.
D movement of the President, and tn
conspirators that took his hfe ha'
their headquarters at the house o
e Mrs. Surratt, one of the "undeI
3 ground post" that the Confederate
r had north of Mason and Dixon Line
= But now, the present Administrator
; is not engaged in war with a hos
I tile system of civilization. The NAL
Guiteau does not belong to the clas
g of men that organized rebellion h
{ was indeed among those that wer
e against the South. which only prove
D that there were men in the NCrtl
J. vehemently against the South, tina
were worse enemies of liberty thai
, the rebels, for they made a manly
vigorous stand for what was antago
8 nistic to freedom, while the Guitear
tribe professed to be freemen, Will
e in truth they were the worst of des
pots, ready TO murder one of tn
! ablest and most consistent champion
;, of Northern free government Th
: work of Booth and his confederate
was assassination, but they were tn
. avowed enemies of everything goy
q ernmental that President Lincoln an
his Northern friends were strugglin
for Such was not the cese of tn
o assassin that shot President Garfield
he claimed to be in sympathy nc
e only with the system of governmer
: that President Garfield represent,
: but he claimed to be still closer i
sympathy, by being an advocate {
u the peculiar system of party organ
IS zation that President Garfield, Sc,
e retary Blaine and other friends {
: the Administration advocated II
e was at Chicago as a hanger on, an
, there he professed to be in full a.
J. cord with the anti-unit rule, and acte
e with the Blaine people throughou
IL all OF their movements, till Gener;
Garfield was nominated for Pres
: dent. When the President was il
: augurated he came to Washingto
l. and demanded office. He elaine
e deep friendship from the days of IL
+ meeting of the Chicago Covention
}. the Inauguration days and his p
II pers sent to men in prominent plac
ID at Washington went so far as to e
'e press hostility to such men as wei
?, not in accord with the Administer
le ton in its views as to who it shoul
appoint. Guiteau claimed to be
Il, close sympathy with the Garfield A
N ministration, and acted with the r
y pubhcans in sustaining it. Boot
is always claimed t0 hold the Lincol
,e Administration in cOntempt. and h