The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-11-17
money, and the Lord in circulating the
book is after souls"
GUITEAU ON INSANITY.

| GUITEAU ON INSANITY.
Guiteau next speaks of the witnesses
! summoned for his defense and says Mr..
ScOville is developing a theory of in
| sanity. This. he says, may have an i'm
pOrtant bearing. Insanity runs in my
family. My father had two sisters and
a nephew and a nOice in an insane
asylum. He himself was mOnOmaniac
for twenty-five years on the Oneida Com
munity. He could see no evil i'll that
concern and no good out of it. He
thought NOyes greater man than the
Lord Jesus Christ. 1t was owing to his
fanatlcism that got into the Oneida
Community. Once under NOyes influence
1t was impossible to get away, and
fingered there in great distress for six
long and weary years. | was in the
Community from 1860 to 1856. Since
then l have known and cared not ing
for them." He goes on to speak of \, Dyes
as fugitive on British soil and charges
him with crimes and misdemeanOTs at
Oneida. He says he has been in Jail
| since July I'd and had twice been shot
at, but the Lord kept him. harm
less. He says he does not wish his
lawyers to work for nothing and appeals
! to the public at large to send money for
his defense. He continues: Certain
politicians seem perfectly willing to
tatten at the public expense on my in
splratlOn, but they pretend to be hOrri-
fed out of their senses by the late Pres
ident's removal, and want nothing to
do with me. They say l am 'dastaTdly
assassin The word assassin CRATES
on the mind, and yet some people de-
light in using it. Why am | an assas-
| sin any more than a man who shot an
other during the war? Thousands of
brave boys on both sides were shot dead
during the war, but no one thinks of
talking about an assassination. There
was a homicide, i, e., a man
killed. But in my case the doc
tors killed the late President and
not me, so there is not even a homicide
| in my case. The President was
simply shot and wounded by an insane
man. The man was insane in law, be-
cause 1t was Gods act and not his"
Guiteau then takes up his married life
and speaks of it.
| "My eX-wife has been summoned by
the prosecution. Our marriage was too
soon. l only knew her ten weeks and
we were married on ten hours notice.
She was poor girl, and had been un-
fortunate, and | had no business to
marry her. We were married in 1869,
separated in 1873, and divorced in 1874
without issue; was practicing law then,
| and we lived at hotels and boarding
houses. l know little about her since
1873. l understand she married we'll
four years ago and is living in Colorado.
l have been strictly virtuOus for six or
seven years. l claim to be gentleman
and Christian.
GUITEAU AS A PATRIOT.
81 am patriot. To-day l suffer in
bonds as patriot. Washington was a
patriot. Grant was a patriot. Wash
ingtOn led the armies of the Revolution
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victory and glory. Grant led the armies
of the Union to victory and glory, and
to-day the nation is happy and prosper
Gus. They raised the old war cry, 'Rally
round the flag, rally round the flag and
thousands of the choicest sons of the
republic went forth to battle-to victory
or death. Washington and Grant by
their valOr and success in war won the
admiration of mankind. To-day suffer
in bonds as patriot because l had the
inspiration and nerve to unite a great
political party to the end that the nation
might be saved another desOlating war.
L do not pretend war was immedi-
ate, but L do say emphatically that the
bitterness in the Republican party last
spring was deepening, and deepening
hour by hour and that within two or
three years, or less, the nation would
have been in a civil war. In the pres
ence of death all hearts were hushed
contention ceased, for weeks and weeks
| the heart of the nation centered on the
sick man at the White House. At last
he went the way of all flesh. The nation
was house of mourning. To say have
been misunderstood and vilified by
nearly the entire American press, nay
more, nearly the entire American peO-
pie, Is true statement"
APPEALING TO THE sTALwARTs.
But Providence and time righten all
things, and to-day, by the gradual
change of public opinion, | am justified
in passing with laudable contempt the
continual venom of certain newspapers.
Let the newspapers change from 'Gui-
| Patriot, | appeal to the Stalwart and
liberal press of the nation for Justice.
l appeal to the Republican party, especi-
ally the Stalwarts, of whom L am proud
| to be IOne, for justice. l appeal to the
| President of the United States for JUS
| tice. am the man that made him Presi-
dent. without my inspiration he was a
political cipher, without power or i'm
pOrtance. | was constantly with him in
New York last fall, during the canvass,
| and he and the rest of our men knew
that we had all we could do to elect
our ticket. Had General Hancock
| kept his mouth closed on the tariff, or
had the Morey letter been delayed a
week, Hancock certainly would have
been elected. Then no man could tell
what might have happened to the Re-
public. l am more than glad that Gen
eral Arthur is proving himself wise
man in his new position, and 1 expect
will give the nation the finest admins
tratiOn it ever had. 1 appeal to the hon
Orable Court for justice. am glad your
Honor is a gentleman of broad views,
Christian sentiment and clear head. |
count myself fortunate indeed that my
case is to be tried before so able and
careful jurist. l appeal to the Dis
trict Attorney and his learned asSOei-
ates for justice. 1 beg they go slow in
prosecuting this case; that they do no
injustice to the Deity, whose servant
was when L sought to remove
the late President. At the last
| great day they and all men
will stand in the presence of the Deity,
crying for mercy and justice. As they
act here so will be their final abode
hereafter. Life is an enigma. This is
a strange world. Often men. are gov
erned by passion and not by reason. The
mob crucifed the Savior of mankind,
and Paul, his great Apostle, went to an
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