Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-12-07
Guiteau as a Witness.

part of the history of his life. He
had been a religious man he had
been lawyer, a sort of preacher, q
lecturer, and had wanted to start sew,
eral newspapers, and had been in
New York jail He would not de
clare himself insane he would leave
that question to the jury A crank
he said, is the short way of putting
it when YOU want to say a man is
pretty bad crazed. He said:
My THEOLOGY
never made me much money. Inevel
got much sympathy, because my ideas
were contrary to those of most peo
Pile They have been looking forward
into the infinite future for the second
coming of Christ, out the second
coming occurred several hundred
years ago. never made any money
out of theology, but was well fed
The Lord took care of me, as he al
ways does when I'm IN the right, ever
if I 10 owe a few board bills. St
P4ul didn't have any success either
out he rad some new ideas Just as
had. He led a vagabond life and wa,
in jail half the time, but the LorG
took care of him. 1 made up my
mind the Lord would take care O
me if L would do his work, and lst
him take care of my board bills
When 1 had money L paid rny bills
when L had no money to pay railroad
fare L told the conductor. l wa:
working for the Lord, and they gen
orally said, "All right" I suppose
YOU would call it dead beating, but
l don't, 1 was simply working fol
the Lord, and L looked upon it that
he was taking care of Inc. Why
rode sll the way from Toledo to Wash
ington and only got put off twice.
Iectured in Boston in 1878, agains
Ingerson. People were ready to pa,
so cents TO bear that there is no hell
but would not pay a cent TO hear tha
there is a hell. After that l tried tn,
law in Milwaukee, but failed to get /
practice.
In Politics.
/ offered nv services to the nation
al committee to take an active part IL
the election of Garfield. / was ad
vertised to speak at Poughkeepsi,
and Saratoga, n. Y, but no one came
to hear me. / was assigned to. ad
dress colored meeting. | didn'
like the crowd; talked about five
minutes. L had my speech printed
and sent to prominent men. l Wen
to Washington, and after the inaugu
ration of Garfield l asked the Presi
dent and Blaine for the Paris Con
sulship. Blaine told Inc never Il
speak to him again on the subject.
gave up Office hunting about the frs
of May, and began to study over th'
political situation. l believed tn,
country to be in danger, and the Re
publican party going to wreck.
wrote letter to the President, bu
got no answer. The newspapers con
tinuailv talked about the situation n!
between Garfield and Blaine, a:
against the stalwarts. l became
INSPIRED.
Inspiration, as | understand it, is
where a mans mind is taken posses
sion of 10y superior power anC
where he acts outside of his own ma
ture. outside of himself The inspir
alton came to me on Wednesday
evening-the Wednesday evening
that Senators Conkling and Platt re
signed. At that time there was /
great excitement in the public mind IL
regard to the resignation and / fel
greatly worried about it. retireC
about eight o'clock that evening
greatly depressed in mind and spirit
over the political situation. Before
| went asleep the impression came or
INV mind like a flash that if the Pres
ident was out of the way the Difficult
ty would all be solved. The mex
morning / had the same impression
| kept reading the papers and KEEP
my mind on the idea of the remOva
of the President. This impression
kept working me and working IN,
and grinding me and expressing m,
for about two weeks. All that tim,
/ was Mortified and l kept throwing
off the idea and did not want TO Civ,
Vt any attention at all-in fact,
sock it off; but it kept growing c1
me and growing on me and pressing
me am grinding me until at the enc
Of two w,aks my mind was thorough
" fixed as to the necessity of tn,
Presidents removal and a. to the iii
yinity Of the inspiration ! had no
the slightest doubt IN to the divlnit,
of the inspiration from the lst Of jun
to the present moment. Iielt just n
confident as To the divinity Of the in
Spiration then as / DO now. Th'
Lord inspired me to attempt to re
move the President in preference u
some one else because / had tn,
brains and tie nerve to do the worl
and because the Lord always EN-
plgys the best materials to 10 HI
works. l also say that the Lord en,
ploved me because he wanted TO al
vertise my theological book, Tn
Truth, and because that book wa
published to save souls. not for mon
~. and the Lord wishes TO save souls
| kept praying about II, and praying
about II. and PRAYING about. that if /
was not the Lords VIII that | shOul,
remove the Presiden: He should. il
some way Ivy His providence. inter
rupt i: That Is always the way
have found the Lord. When / fee
4 pressure upon me 10 90 anythin:
and when | feel any doubt about II
/ keep PRAYING TO the Deity that HI
may show II IN some way If | an
wrong. | never had the slightes
shadow OF doubt on my mind as t,
the divinity Of the act and as to th
necessity 10. II 10 the Great American