The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-07-03
VOICE OF II PRESH,

Az ihe Voice Of the People, Lifted M IN
Indignation tor h Assassin, and Sym.
PAihy for the YICIlm.
New York. July 2 The TriJln. says
there is nothing to account for this horri.
bic deed, which 10 a great nation is q ter.
rible blow, e1cep. a Crazy spirit OF
faction. Political tansticism has baen
showing itself beflre US ell in
many phaaes very little short OF
murder, The country has seen the wild.
est rawlings OF abuse about the President
aud has paid little attention, but curses
and threats are followed at last by
murderous shots, and the country
starts with horror. Must we not
realizs in the light Of the dreadful Calam.
ity at Washington, that those who breed
and nurse this malignant, selfish, grasp.
ing Fnd desperate spirit are aiming a blow
afthe lie OF the Republic The StaalS Aitmg
in the course Of an elaborate article, says II
cannot be denied that i! Is q kind OF a ma.
tional disease, and has q great deal to do
with this terrible event, The American
people have to protect not only their Pres.
idents, but themselves, against the grow.
ing evils OF the spoils system, which Ia at
the bottom eleven this tragedy,
BUFFALO, N. Y, July 9-The CONNER.
ciul AdrerliSer (~Rspublican) alludes to the
matter, in substance, as follows; "In the
heighth Of a crisis like this the pen I~Alters,
and ii Is hard to describe the effects OF
such startling news upon The people OF
q great nation, The dispatches from every
part OF the country report that the excite.
ment has been without precedent or par.
allel since the hour when the name
OF President Lincoln was placed upon
the roll Of the martyred dead. Business
is suspended. Men have little thought or
care for the affairs Of every day life when
they know that an assassin has aimed at
the head Of the NationIl Government, but
the calamity has revealed the firm hold
that President Garfield has upon tho 70.
TEEN and affection OF his fellow Citiz ana.
That he may be spared and restored TO
the vigorous health that has been his
blessing Is the prayer that asCeuds to tho
people in this vast republic"
PHILADELPHIA, July 1.-The Pres nOys:
mo President Hince Lincoln has been
more beloved than Garfield, None has
commanded u greater degree Of public
confidence. In the universal and pro-
found horror which the crime e%xCites,
deep feeling and passion may associate
II with some political cause or inspiration,
bat such q thug Is too monstruus to be
entertained, No passion Of the American
people. HIS yet descended TO that DO.
praVity. We have not become 30 Mexican.
lied that assassination Is employed as q
political weapon. This crime, which
pluuges the whole Nation into sorrow,
is the deed OF one maddoned fanatic,
craz9d, 1t may be, by political excitement
and wrought into a morbid state by
imaginary wrongs, but representing moth.
ing but his own insanity"
CINC!NNATI, o., July 2.-The Times Star
this afternoon says: "lt Russian Nihilism
Ia to be transp'snted TO our shores, II the
ussgea and sAvagery Of the thugs Of India
are to BIO adopted 10 this country, then II
Ia time that we should inquire whether
the unrestrained right OF oil classes OF the
community to carry murderouI We poDs
does not demand q closer scrutiny than 1t
has heretofore received"
CHARLESTON, y. O., July 2.-The MeW
and COuri'r ssys: 'SuCh events as the
tragedy to. day HIT the people above per.
bonal and sectional considerations and
make the whole country kin. The only
thought In Charleston was that the Presi.
dent had been slain, and that a blow
through him had been aimed at the
mighty heart Of the whole Union. They
who are TO be benefited by President
GAtfeld's death will be early In proclaim.
Ing their regret; we do not question their
sincerity, but they were bitter foes OF the
President, and what the country will not
forget ia that the deed Is done In their
name, and they and their followers will
derive place and power from the Presi'
dents death"