Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-28

witnesses who are guilty Of rank perjury, ani
it has excited my wrath, and have denounced
them in plain language. l hate the mean, de
ceptiye way of the prosecution. My opinion
of the district attorney is well known. Tht
defence have been.unfortunate in having insult
ticient counsel, but Notwithstanding this,
expect that justice will be done me, and my
motive and inspiration vindicated. The peo
pie are saying: "Well, if the Lord did it, let il
CO." l expect this spirit will grow.
is doing splendidly in his new position. Had
Gen. Garfield done as well, he probably would
have heen alive to-day. He was good man
but weak politician. I am especia IL J
pleased with Gen. Arthur's cOnciliatory spir it
and wisdom toward the opposition. 1t'sex
actly what / wish him to do, viz, Unite the
factions of the Republican party, to the end
that the nation may be happy and prosperous.
My life has been rather sad one. My
mother died when / was seven. My father
was a good man and an able one, but fanatic
in religion Under his influence | got into
the Oneida community at nineteen, and re-
NAMED six years. Three years after this
was unfortunately manned and SO continued
for four years. Soon after l was divorced /
went on to theology. Three years of my
life 10 the Oneida community were years OF
constant suffering; my married life the same.
NV theological life was one OF anxiety.
l was happier at that than anything else, be-
cause was serving the Lord. My life has
been isolated. During my six Years in the
Oneida community got estranged from my
relatives. might as well have been in states
prison or lunatic asylum. was never able
TO forgive my father for running
me into that community. If it had
not been for this I should have had a
for happier lot But let it go. Forgetting
things behind I press forward. l have no
doubt as to my spiritual destiny. l have al.
ways been lover of the Lord, and whether l
live one year or thirty am His as matter of
fact. I presume I shall live to be president.
To-day, 1851 years ago, the Savior of man
kind was born in poverty and obscurity. He
moved up and down Judea and spoke as
Que having authority. Vast multitudes fol-
lowed him. He cast out devils, healed the
sick, restored the blind and diseased, told the
multitude who he was and what he came for;
that God the Father had sent him to point the
race the way to eternal life. This wonderful
no money and had no friends. He never
travelled. He never wrote books. He
was hated, despised and finally cru
Gifted as vile imposter. Then
back he went to the bosom of the father. Dur
ing his ministry he drew around himself a few
dispisec individuals, who were as poor as him.
self. They had no money and no standing in
society, and were mostly fishermen.
Outwardly, like most other great events in
human history ,;the origin of Christianity was
an absolute failure. 1t was like seed planted,
and it had grew up little by little. Time has
developed it into a gigantic tree, over
hanging the habitable globe. The
mob crucified the savior of mankind, and
Paul, his great apostle, went to an ignomlmous
death. This happened many centuries
ago. For eighteen centuries have existed no
such tremendous influence on the civilization
of the race as the despised Gailllean, and his
great apostle. They did their work and left
the result with the almighty father, and so
work and leave the result with the
Diety, whatever becomes of them personally.
The most man can do is to kill you, but they
cannot prevent your name and work from
going laundering down the ages.
God always avcnges those who injure his
men. Christ's contemporaries crucified the
Almighty's only son, but he got even with
the Jewish race at the destruction of Jerusa-
lem, A. D. 20, when Titus, the Roman en-
peror, razed that city to the ground and
slaughtered over 100000 Jews, and from that
day to this the Jews have been despised and
downtrodden race. The mills of the gods
grind slowly but they grind sure. Woe to
any man or men that persecute Gods men.
The Almighty will follow them in this world
and in the next.
Take my own case. When the pressure to
remove the president came on me, spent two
weeks in prayer to make sure Of the Deity's
will. At the end of two weeks, my mind was
fixed to the political necessity for his removal,
and have never had the slightest doubt since
about the divinity of the act and the necessity
for it. Thus far the Deity has furthered the
act to my entire satisfaction. He knows l
simply executed his will, and I know it,
and great many people are begin
ming to see it, and they will see it more and
more as time advances. 1 put up my life on
the Deity's inspiration, and L have not come
to grief yet, and ! have no idea that l shall,
because l do not think / am destined to be
shot or hung. But this is a matter for the
Deity to pass on and not me.
Whatever mode of my exit from this world
l have no doubt but my name and work will
go laundering down the ages. But woe unto
the men tn at kill me, private or judicially.
c nited States jail, Washington, D. c., 1881.