Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-07-29
GuIIEAU's TRAINING SCHOOL.
The Habits of the Oneida Com munit,

Gath in Cincinnati Enquirer.
Guiteau is type Of large class in the
country, who, having picked up little
law, wrote = speech or two to deliver be-
fore the public, or strolled into prayer
meeting and attracted consideration,
come to think themselves national char
acters; and the more ragged and dirty
they become. the more they liken them
selves to distinguished men of antiquity
such as Diogenes and Socrates. Gui-
teau, as has been said in southern pa
per, is considerable of satire on some of
the elements in the republican party.
There is no record that he is drinking
man. He has been a lecturer on temper
ance. He would be perfectly acceptable
with clean suit of clothes to the tenn
perance wing of the republican party.
Then he was zone OF your prayer meeting
men: Instead of locating somewhere,
joining church, and bringing up his
character slowly, he would pounce into q
church the first time after lis arrival at
hotel, and address the people on some
thing or other.
He was one OF those little snap theo.
logians who read q little of the bible and
jump at conclusion which they consld-
er an important turn in theology; and SO
it is as important as many of the turns
which have brought considerable thco.
logical fame. Every one was looking for
the second coming Of Christ, and he put
three or four paragraphs together and
discovered that Christ had already come
and the exact year he came, and nobody
had noticed it but himself, This was
sufficient, had he congregation, to set
the man on series of travels through
out this country, Europe and the Holy
Land.
It was the same kind OF discovery
that his lord and master Noyes, of the
Oneida community, made when he read
in the bible one day that in Heaven they
were neither married nor given in mar
riage. Therefore, says Noyes, marriage
is not heavenly institution. Ergo, the
world must be made heaven. Resolved,
that marriages shall be bursted up. So
Noyes went down into Connecticut,
where there was strong minded woman
with an unintellectual husband, who had
a good farm, and he showed the afore.
said husband and the sister that to be
just like other heavenly people they
must come into the community where
there were no marriages, and bring his
daughters and sons in and turn all their
worldly grods IN the common lot.
"Then, said Rev. Noyes, "I will initi-
ate you into the best substitute for mar
riage."
Noyes went preaching over the coun-
try. He was Baptist OF the sect Gen.
Arthur was raised in. Being pretty we'll
known among the Baptists he got a
hearing in many Baptist family, and
so moved his community from Connecti-
cut to New York, and had become con-
siderable commercial concern when Gui-
teau and his father went into it, accord.
ing to accounts, and the young man
stayed there much longer than his father,
and was engaged in one of the numer-
GUS quarrels in the community about the
women.
recollect some years ago seeing q
man who had sued that community to
recover his vile and sum of money he
had put IN. He went there expecting
things were much looser than they were
but he found old Rev. Noyes the only
man who was married to everybody
Noyes was married to this novice's wife
and his daughters too; and after this the
wife would have nothing to dc
with her husband. The women in the
community generally disliked this hus
band. He had not a religious tongue il
his head. He was purely a physica
lover. He could not butter his paisnipt
with sentiment. He sued the communit,
for his money and his wife set up the
point that the women would not toler
ate him.
This nasty community was allowed t,
continue in the state of New York, nea
Conkling's home in Utica, twenty years
and would have been tremendous nuis
ance to this day but that Noyes. got oil
and concluded that there had better b.
marriages on this earth in order to Civ,
him rest. 1t is now secularized, an,
raises guilt edge butter, bear traps an
> Yankee notions. 1t furnished, however
the assassin of the president. After h
got out of the Oneida community Gu
teau went to the different theoiogics
conyenticles, where somebody had bolte
away from his congregation, and wa
/, preaching essays instead of sermon
T He was very much infatuated with Pro
Swing in Chicago. He Joined th
Shakers awhile. He followed Bob Il
3 gersoll around to show what fool Bo
: was, and correspondinglv how great
: man Guiteau was. Never able to pa
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