Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-10
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been agitated because there was no an
nouncement that ex-senator Conkling
had sent message of coincidence to the
President. The Chicago Tribune and
morning paper in this city conducted by
men so vile that we do not pellute the
columns of the GLOBE with their names,
have been particularly fierce in their in
vective. The condemnation which one
might suppose would be lavished on the
assassin, was reserved and launched with
full force upon Conkling. No epithet
was too vile for the self-con-
stituted, blue nose custodian of American
honor to hurl at the head of the senior
Senator from New York. He alone Of
all others was declared to be the man who
felt no sorrow because Garfield lay at the
gateway of the grave. On the contrary,
he was depicted as gloating over the
prospect of Arthur's succession, and the
evidence of all this rested upon the charge
that no inquiry or message of sympathy
had been sent to the White House by
Conkling. While this indecent comment
of an indecent journalist was polluting
the columns of an indecent journal the
following correspondence was passing:
FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL, NEW YORK, July 5.
My DEAR SIR: In the adherence with
which all decent men should shudder at the
attempt to murder the President, have given
thought to a matter which your attention
may or may not have turned. Our criminal
code treats premeditated homicide in all cases
alike, irrespective of the victim. Murder be-
ing visited by the greatest penalty, perhaps no
distinction between one case and another
could be founded on the public relations held
by the person slain. But in the case of an at
tempt to murder, broad distinction can be
made between assailing the life of an indi-
vidual and an attempt to take life of special
value to the whole people. The shocking &C.
currence of Saturday demands that the defini-
ton and punishment of assaults aimed at high
executive officers, whether successful or not,
should be made thoroughly rigorous
The man who attempts the life of a
President, if morally responsible, commits
an offense which the nation ought to
guard against and punish by the exertion of
all the power civilized nations may employ.
suggest this as deserving of consideration.
My profound sympathies are with the Presi-
dent and with all of you every hour. The
conflict of report keeps hope and fear striving
with each other, with nothing stable except
the facts, and trust that the worst is past. 1
wish you would express to the President my
deepest sympathy in this hour, which should
hush all discords and enlist prayers for his safe
deliverance. Please, also, give to Mrs. Gar
field my most respectful coincidence. Trusting
that all will be well, cordially yours.
Roscoe CoNKLING.
MACvEAGH TO CoNKLING.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July THE Hon.
Roscoe Conkling, Fifth Avenue Hotel, New
York: Thanks for your letter of the 9Th,
which has just reached me. It's suggestions
will be carefully considered, and its kind mes
sage of sympathy will be conveyed to the
President and Mrs. Garfield at the earliest Cd.
portunity. WAYNE MAoVEAGH.
If any one supposes that this strolling
disgrace to the English nation would
make the amende honorable he little
reckons upon the contemplate meanness
concentrated in his corrupt body. The
letter of Conkling is carefully suppressed,
and the fact that he has expressed SYM
patty with the President and his
wife is studiously concealed by
that paper. All of the pretty
invective .of an evil mind has been
wasted, but it would be an act of justice
to acknowledge the falsity and indency
of the charge. Hence no such act of
justice has been done and there need be
no apprehension that it will be in the
future