The daily gazette., 1881-07-05
TU rs sDAY, JULY 5, 1854.
staIwartfsrn.

i We have yet TO see an authorized
platform of the Stalwarts, and are at
loss to understand the full meaning
of the term adopted by the adhercnts
of those who rally under it it may
or it may not have meant sectional
persecution. But there is no mis-
iaking the fact that the assassin OF
the President boasts that he is a
"Stalwart of the Stalwarts;" and filled
with bitter enmity and hate for the
people Of this government attempted
in cool blood to murder the Chief
Magistrate because he was not of the
"S,alwarts," and to place in the scat
of the President man who was a
s.Stalwart." 1t is said that Guiteau
is insane. Surely no sane man could
have been prompted to commit the
horrid deed Guiteau is guilty of; but
the insanity had a direction-a prompt
ing. and that came of ''Stalwart-
ism," whatever that is. Had Arthur
not been "Stalwart"-had he stood
by Garfield, whose ability, fame and
popularity secured him the election to
the Vice Presideucy-had he stood by
the administration in its efforts to Sc
cure the appointment of good men to
Office and the de ermination 10 punish
the Star Route thieves had he not
consorted with Conklng and become
an open advocate of Stalwartism, then
the brain of the assassin would not
have been fred to commit the horrid
crime which plunged the whole coun-
try inlo grief and caused wall of
lamentation to arise from one end of
1t to the other.
Whatever was meant by this blow
of most hardened, wicked and in
sane wretch at the Republic and its
glorious institutioDs-for although its
immediate aim was at the President
its results could not but fall upon the
people. Therefore, it may be hoped
that ''in the course of human events"
what seemed to menace the government
and the people may be made to res
dound 10 uur greatness and cement our
unity and strengthen The fraternity of
the people.
Guiteau, the assassin, lies in his cell
without one utterance in his favor
or single word of C mmiseration
that We have seen from any quarter.
Even the ".Stalwarts" have uttered
ordinations of horror at the crime,
which has brought forth such flood
of sympathy as must convince the
most hardened of the Stalwarts as
well as the most skeptical as to the
union of these States among the old
governments 5, that we are one people
with one great object, the establish
ment of a lasting government under
which all men may be free and inde-
pendent.
When Guiteau reads, and his stStal-
wart friends read the "Public Ac-
knowledgement" issued by James G.
Blaine, this morning, acknowledging
the reception of messages Of con-
dolence and affection which have been
received since Saturday morning, from
almost every State in the Union from
The South as bountiful as from thu
Moth, and from countries beyond ths
sea-" conviction will seize upon then
as upoA all the good people of thi
country that the hearts of those VIII
make up the nation whether in on
State or another, beat In unison am
politically have but one aim and on
hope-which is the building up OF
great government under which til
Oppressed of all nations may find a
asylum"
il is the prayer Of the whole peopl
that the President who has bee
stricken down by the blow of th
most wicked Of men, may be restore
to health and be enabled with create
confidence to conduct the Executiy
business in the interests of honesty an
truth, for through his attempt to d
SO it is clearly shown he had secure
the confidence of tue people.