Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-04

| thought that no man of the American people
possessed of his reason could feel towards their
husband and father q murderous hate that
could strike at his life, and they may
| well feel comforted and helped by national
| sympathy deep and tender, which desires the
recovery of their beloved one with an earnest.
ness and ardor that can only yield to their
own. 1t is plain and clear enough to our
own. people that the tragedy has no political
relations, and is only the expression of an
impulse of one individual but abroad, where
they imagine us, from the late agitations, to
be in fever of revolution, and where they
do not know that the limit of party passion
never rises to this hight, the event will be
misunderstood and misinterpreted and COM
mented upon as one of the growing evils of
our system.
CHICAGO, July Si.-The Tr,buae's edi-
torial says: The attempted assassination of
President Garfield yesterday has naturally
shocked the national mind, and for time
overwhelmed the hearts of the entire people.
He had called an able and experienced Cabi-
net to his aid, and in four months won the
confidence of the great mass of the American
people This act was that of a crazy man,
not prompted by popular complaint. The
country will unquestionably. and without
ance with General Garfield of all completely
or knowledge of this atrocious deed. At the
same tims it will be remembered this crazy
demon was in the mental condition to be in
fuenced by the current events of the day,
and the fact that faction in New York was
striving to defeat the Administration was Just
such an event as would suggest to mind
like that of this man, seeking notoriety,
that tie removal of the President would
terminate the contest, unite the party
and perhaps win for himself the gratitude of
the victors. While no sane man will admit
a suspicion that this assassination had any
connection with the New York case, still in
the theory that the assassin was deranged in
mind, and taking his own letters as indicating
the direction of his insanity, no one viii
question that had the faetious controversy not
occurred this murder would not have sug-
gested Itself to Guitteau. This thought will
survive as part of the history of the whole
murderous transaction. Ii anything could
add to the universal grief Of the people over
the assassination, it would be the pending
calamity of three and half years govern
ment under Mr.. Arthur. The country will
learn of his probable succession to office with
shudder Of apprehension.
ALBANY, July 3i-The Eeening Journal
says: No man has deserved better of the re-
public He had conspicuously illustrated
the genius of our institutions, and the mag
nifcens opportunity it offers to worth and
intelligence.
The Times, Argus and other papers express
adherence of the act.
BosToN, July 3l.-The Herald says +: Sad
and lamentable, and far-reaching in its pos
sible consequences as is this act of frenzy, it
loses all sinister political significance when it
appears as the deed Of disappointment of one
who has lost his wits. Assassination has DO
place in our political system, and is never JUS
tifiable in a land Of free speech and universal
suffrage.