Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-18

thought it would be hard matter to say jus vet. He asked the Presid ent if he was goo 1 sailor. ssYes.n y said the President, q ar
 hardly ever sick at sea-" Dr. Bliss told hir
 he could takes trip by boat much sooner thai
 he could by train and the President said, "I
 the matter is being considered let us keep ol
 thinking of it. In making the evening ex
 animation Dr. Bliss experimented by gentl l pressing on the abdomen just right of tn centre where the soreness and tenderness ap peared soon after the shooting. The resul
 was the discharge of at least a urine glass o
 laudable pus, showing that the ball was prob l ably in the anterior wall of the abdomen a | supposed, and was not at all encrusted. Tn
 President suffered very little pain during thi process
 GOOD IDEA FROM THE PULPIT.
 1 Rev. Mr. Power, the Presidents pastor | whose pulpit has been filled with stranger since the shooting, to-day preached stirring l sermon on the subject at the Vermont avenue | Christian church He took for his text the words spoken by Moses, q have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing ! therefore choose life that both thou and thy I seed may live" After an apt introduction I he continued: The powers which make such man as President Garfield are faith, religion, Christianity and the gospel o1 Christ. The powers that mould such 8 crea- ture as Guiteau are sin, irrelgion, unfaith. 4Ao A15b 4S 1110, t10 bcGOA0 OOo1AAs LAAO HI ot blessing, the second cursing. We believe that there is enough of the salt of Christian faith and morality in the body polite to save it from putrefaction and destruction and death. The proof of this proposition is seen in the universal prayer that is going up all over the land and in the universal abhor- renee of the crime called forth by the trage- dy at the nations capital on the second day of July. Among the tendencies of the times that ought to excite the gravest apprehen- sions he mentioned the failure to meet the ends of justice by the prompt and rigid exe- cution of the law Since the pistol is of no service in war and of no service for game, but has only two purposes-to make one day of all the year, the Fourth of July, hideous and notorious for the slaughter of innocents, and every other day in the year day of murder-let the whole manufacture and sale of tEis weapon be legislated against and condemned. Let men feel that human life is sacred thing, sacred above property, above position, above any other influence, sanity, no plea of drunkenness, no plea of wounded honor can justify man. Let men feel that human life is so sacred that the at- tempt to take it is crime punishable by i'm prisonment for ife and that the taking of it will lead to 8 speedy and certain stretching of hemp. Then there will not be this indifference and carelessness and recklessness about the lives of men, and men will cease to pull triggers at every mo- msnt of provoeation without first thinking of what is before them. Another dangerous tendency of the times, said the preacher, is the freedom of speech and of the press in criti- cism of public men, which has degenerated into a vicious and dangerous license. To sit high in our time is to be lied about. Men ought to be made to know that they are re- sponsible for what they say, for what they write. for what they print, when it is aimed at the leaders of the people, and especially at the great head and heart of the nation. Had there been no stalwart contest against the prerogatives of the executive there would have been no assault upon the President. Guiteau's crime is but the terrible product of the vicious, shameless, bitter infammatory attacks in the press by those who have only personalities to serve, who were dissatisfied with the executive action, not because it af- fected the interests of the country, but because it was not in accordance with their own precious counsels. It is not the act of an irresponsible madman. It is not the result of faction or conspiracy, as the lightning strikes that shivers the tall mon- archs of the forest, but the dire vengeance of distempered air. So the murderous report of Guiteau's pistol on the 2nd of July was but the final irruption of the diseased political atmosphere and an atmosphere perversed by pestilential vapors from the cesspools of fac tion and from the venomous breath of slan- der. It is but the representative work of place men. It is but the product of the relentless and defiant and
 boastful murder of the law of public honor and of every attribute of public virtue to satisfy self. It is but the action of demon iacal wretch, of brute in human form, per- sonating in himself the atheistic, the mini istic, the communicate, the anarchic, the thuggish, the pistol and blood ideas of the old world. It is not national, it is not Ameri- can it is not the fruit of our institutions It is
 but the work of a terrible bloody man in- famed to his act by cowardly factional spirit and slanderous breath and if it kills the name tsstalwart" for all time to come, if it teaches the people to speak reverently of those who are in authority, if it breaks the spirit and power of faction, if it heals sec- tionality. if it impresses the people with the value of 8 great life, with the dignity of the presidential office, with the necessity and majesty of law, with the glory of the Union, and above all with the omnip- we will say, let God reign and we will sub mit. The third tendency described by the preacher was t-.e disposition on the part of society to condone the crime and excuse and even glorify the criminal. To excuse the of fense and transfer it is mawkish sentiment ality a spurious charity, weak kneed human ity, which is absolutely immoral and unhu- man. He reviewed the assassin's own state- ment of his purpose in the crime and said ttDo you call that insanity? Then it is re- sponsible insanity. It is rational insanity It is scheming, horrible, fiendish insanity that can be met with but one course of treatment. The very suggestion that this man is irre- sponsibIe is an insult to the intelligence of the people. It is an outrage that every crazy man in our asylums and out of them might reasonably feel called upon to resent" The preacher closed with an arraignment of what he called free an easy, go-as-you-please" re- hgion, and prayer that the country might
 be saved it's effects.
 SORROW THAT IS UNAvAILING.
 eff had another opportunity, I would not try to shoot the President again." said Guiteau. q thought I had an inspiration to remove him, but see must have been mis- taken. I think it is ordained by God that the President shall not be killed, and, for that reason, would not try it again if I had chance If it were not decreed by God that he should not be killed, how could he be alive now held the pistol close to his back, and my hand was as steady as iron. I fired point blank at him, and nothing but divine interpretation could have saved him. He will not die, am convinced, and I am sorry caused him so much suffering. It is no use for any one to try to kill him now, for, if ] could not do it with the chance had, no bull let can do it. It is so ordained, and we must abide the will of heaven"
 BULLETINS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.
 S:3O a. m.-The President continues to improve. He passed an excellent night and has good appetite this morning Pulse 90, temperature 9S.4, respiration IS.
 D. w. BLISS,
 J. K. BARNES,
 J. J. WOODWARD, ROBERT REYBURN 7p. m.-Our expectations of favorable progress have been fully realized by the man. ner in which the President has passed the day. He has taken more solid food and with greater relish than hitherto, and his after noon fever, which is as slight as that of yes- terday, came on later. At p. m. his pulse was 94, temperature 93.5, respiration 18. Al present his pulse is 98, temperature 10O.2 ?, respiration 20. (Signed)
 D. W. BLISS,
 J. K. BARNES,
 J. J. WOODWARD, ROBERT REYBURN. NEW YORK.