The Osceola times., 1881-07-09
Attempted Assassination
Of President Garfield.

OScttlu WIN tnc Itel VI tiiN 'puh-
try was startled and shocked at the
report which reached here early
last Sunday morning of the attempt
on the life of President Garfield by
the hand of an assassin. The first
lntimatlon that our people had of
the shooting was conveyed by Mr..
w. b. Hale, who came up Sunday
morning. Since then, papers re-
celved from all sections, containing
detailed accounts of the sad affair
proves the first report too true.
The first dispatch tolegraphed over
the wires was dated:
WASHINGTON, July 2.
Al $50 o'clock this morning,
when the president was at the Bal.
,imore and Potomac depot with his
party, waiting to take the train, he
was shot twice by a man within two
feet of him. The presidents friends
rushed TO him as he fell, and Mr..
Blaine called for Rockwell. Station
Agent Carney arrested the assassin,
who said: 81 dId it, | am stall
wart, and Arthur is now president.
Take a letter | have to Gen. Sher-
man and he will tell you all about
it,"
Then follows minute details, too
voluminous for reproduction here,
and which doubtless most of our
readers have read IN the city dallies.
The assassin's name is Guitcau, and
balls from Chicago. Great anxiety
prevails throughout the nation, and
the sympathles and earnest prayers
of millions of American citizens are
with president Garfield, and that he
may live.
The Memphis Avalanche IN sum
ming up the opinions and comments
of the leading dailies says:
The New York Tunes character
ICES the assassination as the weapon
Of an infamed faction. The phila-
delphia Press \ political cause
is too monstrous for belief" Tho
st. Louis Republican: "Oi all the
public men IN America not one
moves before the people whose
manners, life and character have so
little in them TO arouse the fiery
passion of an assassin. HIS person
al character was as amiable aS that
of a woman" The Atlanta Consti-
tuition: " No thoughtful man viii
deny 1t the assasslnatiou1 is the
natural and appropriate outcome of
the political insanity which goes by
the name of republicanism' The
Chicago Times; They who are to
be benefited by President Gar
fields death will be early in pro-
claiming their regret, and we do
not question their sincerity; but
they were the bitter foes of the
president, and the country will not
forget that the deed was done in
their name, and they will derive
place and power from the prcsi-
dents DEATH"
New York, July 2-The Tribune
says: There is absolutely nothing
to account for tins horrible deed,
which to n great nation is terri
bic calamity, except that II crazy
spirit OF lactlous fanaticism has been
showing itself before us all in many
phases little short of madness. The
country has seen the widest ravlngs
of abuse about President Garfield,
and has paid little attention, but
the curses aud threats are followed
at last by murderous shots, and the
country starts with horror.
The Courier Journal says; Mrs.
Surratt was hanged on less circum-
stantial evidence than occars to the
mind as to Roscoe Conkling and
Chester A. Arthur. The vile na-
ture of the contest at Albany, the
despicable rancor ofthc comba,ants,
and the base methods adopted by
both parties render murder as like.
ly a weapon as any other, and
whilst We should be 10th TO accuse
anybody, and prayeriul that the
man Gitteau is not the instrument
of a conspiracy, we should rot be
eager to assume the innocence of
body of political wretches whose
hands are stained by every other
crime.