The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-07
Assassination and Anarchy,

Assassination and Anarchy,
The Mobile Register has a long
and sensible article under this head
ing, a greater portion of which we
reproduce. On the lst of June last,
speaking of Tio> President Arthur,
that paper said:
That he (Arthnr) did refuse to allow
the election of a President Of the Sem
ale, because within less than half u cen
tury three Presidents have died while
in office aud have succeeded by then
Vice Presidents. Watchful of a like
chance, the INSCRIPTIONS partisan
dreams o. seizing upon the highest Of
fee, aud wants as his successor in the
chair of the Senate some tool of Conk'
ling's-or perhaps Conkling himself
if he should again slip into the Senate
In another part of the article the
Register says:
1t would be a sad day when Chester
A. Arthur, the lotten public man con
victed of rotteuness by his own party
chief, would ascend the chair of Wash.
iugton; but the pestilent malaria Of the
White House, the "accldental' use o.
poisonous cooking vessels or the mac
pulling of o trigger-such as befel {
Harrison-a Taylor or a Lincoln-migh'
be repeated, as SO many other like
histories have been repeat ad-aftel
due rehearsal by the interested per
formers. In such q case the American
people will realize that, for once, they
have a Chief Magistrate guilty or capa
BILE of all the crimes usually charged
against candidates to that supreme
ofice:-aud they would further ind il
Roscoe Conkling the power behind the
throne which would shape their des'
TIMES.
Then the Re gister closed the arti-
Gle with the following almost
prophetic wonas:
1t may not be inappropriate to Sc
riously advise Mr.. Garfield to see to q
thorough cleaning of the drains of tbs
White House-to a vigorous securing
of all copper cooking vessels, and td
the prompt confinement Of all "insane
persons" stirring around with fire arms,
and so cut off any pretext for toe
sudden a Qualifying of his successor
These are extracts from an edito-
rial written on the first of June
Scarcely thirty days elapsed before
the news Of the assassination of the
President iashe'l oyer the coun
TRY. 9ias gEster rspablishes the
extracts Civ above, in its issue of
July srd and comments thereon as
follows:
Thirty days have hardly passed and
as these lines are pennei, the country
ana the whole civilized world stand
Mortified at the news that James A.
Garfield, the lawfully elected President
of this great nation of fifty>two millions,
is writhing on n bed Of suffering aud his
llfe-blood fast oozing out from the
gaping wounds inflicted by the hands
Of O hired assassin.
These words are not hastily written:
they ore dictated by the solemn, pros
found conviction that it lie no madman's
hand that has committed the awful
crime: that this crime against man,
against the nation, against God, is not
the isolated act of any N single
guilty mind. but that it is the last scene
of q bloody tragedy conceived and
brought forth in the dark recesses
where foiled ambition and disappointed
pride had hidden to conceal their rage
and nurse their prospects of vengeance
When a bloody deed startles a nation.
the first question that arises is: To
whom shall this crime profit? aud the
lynx>eyed detective turns his searching
glance towards those to whom that
deed will bring either venal benefit or
the qualification of revenge.
In the great inquest which the Ma
ton will hold over the inanimate remains
of her Chief Magistrate, let the eye of
that nation first turn towards those
whose ambition or vengeance will be
gratiied by the contamination of the
crime.
The bullet that pierced the side of
James A GorGeld has buried itself in
the heart of the nation, and the wound
will tester and rankIe till the brains
tbat nervad the assassi,,s hand shall
have heen dashed on the altar of bu.
mon ~;ustica
Tn crimes ~ooainst nations r. is not
tho hand th,t bolds tha dagger bnt
the brains flat pn;de the hand
which ia entity nj tha bloody decd
Na;tbar is II onIv brouoh diobol;caI
dev;aes ,aev;lish foundations actnal
w.srds al indneemeut that the assa,sin's
Hand Is lad tothe viotim.s bosom: but
the maehinationE Of corrupt, yet shrewd
intellect may 50 80 fill the dir with
peiseGasa@sxAaA5s1sst isas ths pppuiaT
mind becomes tanited by their deadly
influences aud ;r~npregnated with their
virulence.
It cannot be questioned that those
whom the President and his Cabinet
had sternly brought to the bar of JUS
tice, that those whom their foiled am
bitlon had compelled him to discard or
else lose the respect of the world-that
those political adventures. those out
ru;nsa u liz tbosa whn a,o Anu aa u 10 ny
standard of Catiline, that those men
nave, nave y Z .n na1;t pesa. a.ons teachings .t pols
move their low r~etainers. and that those
combined elements have finally blunted
sesse ns' and Iu msa az, N r.av ' tno, pos o.
any desperate deed. This more than
explains q biind fury which seizea
bower. and 9 him to trampla = upon