Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-15

thirds ma ority this winter, certainly,
to enable it to hasten the next panic.
DIR. TALMAGE ON "GUITEAUISM. I"
DR.. Talmage preached sermon
last Sunday on "Guiteauism." He
recitel several kinds of Guiteau-
ism, the first of which was cable
bodied beggary," made up of those
who spend their life begging, under
the pretense of borrowing; men
who are too lazy to earn their own
living and hence appropriate the la
Dor and industry of others; men
who propose to live by their wits.
Another phase of Guiteauism he
said, is "unmitigated cruelty" I'm
der this head he said:
Standing in the Baltimore depot l
saw star in the floor, which marks
the place where the Presidents head
lay after he had fallen. I saw, also,
beautiful memorial to Garfield
against the wall with the Presidents
name and July 2, 1881. There is a
recess which looks as if first made
for the villains hiding>place. I saw
where the assassin stood; but all
this impressed me not SO much with
the cruelties of that massacre as the
story of an employe of the White
House, who told me how he used to
sit with the dying Presidents foot
in his hands, pressing it soas to allie
viate the pain. l said: odd he groan
much?" 'sAh!" he said, she did not
groan 50 much as he breathed hard:
It was awful, sir; it was awful T
There is only one book that has the
story of suffering last simmer at
Washington and at Elberon, and that
is the book of Gods remembrance.
It is all down there in indestructible
letters. The first sting of the pain,
and all the probings, and the wound
dressing, and the surgery, and the
nervousness, and the sleepless nights,
and the dying pang-what caused its
Guiteauism, which is mutilating,
agonizing and deathful cruelty.
James A. Garfield dead nearly three
months, and his assassin still alive
But to understand the worst cruel
ties of the case you must look
upon beclouded Mentor and the
closed blinds of that beautiful
home. The photographers have
given no idea of its ap-
pearance. 1t was, as I saw it last
autumn, not merely comfortable, but
exquisitely beautiful. The family
that passed every winter there has
gone-all gone-the head of it in the
Cleveland cemetery, and the living
members gone to be as near to the
grave as possible. 1t is no small al
fair to take man at fifty years of age
from his wife, just before the even
ing of life comes on, when his strong
arm is the more needed, and from
undeveloped children at time when
they require a fathers wisdom and
profession. The country has done
all it could to alleviate the domestic
calamity. Cyrus w. Field did nc
grander thing when he put the tele-
graph girdle under the sea, connect
ing all nations with the sensitive
nerve of sympathy, than when he
put under the ocean Of this nation
sorrow that cable of gold along
which the sympathy of the world
flashed into the heart o.
that agonized Carried household
But after all the allev
tons, the domestic grief is unmeas-
urable. Rather than 100000 il
their orphanage and widowhooG
would the broken hearted family have
had log cabin in the West with two
rooms, and father and husband home
with them. What broke up that do
nestle felicity? Guiteauism. Blu
the murder of James A. Garfield was
not the worst part of this business
To show what Guiteauism is, look il
upon the court room at Washington
and see the attempt made by Grntea,
and his counsel to defame the enfir.
family, father and sons and daugh
tiers and uncles and aunts with tn,
charge of insanity to save that muir
derer. They began with the father
grave-gbouls at work in cemetry
His neighbors for the most part eulo
gized him as one of the most intelli
gent citizens and good Christian
But Guiteauism smites the dead cheel
and spits on the coffin. Itsweeps tn
circle of infamy around to include
: all. The counsel for the defense, b,
his position, throws obloquy on hi
own wife, who is a Guiteau, Oh, tn
dastardliness of dishonoring a goo'
wife! In this effort to make tn
scales OF justice come down OF
Guiteau's side he throws in hi
own wife, and throws her so har,
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