The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-02-05
Guifenu Sentenced.
TIE PRISONER NAMES 4 SPEECH.

/ teau, who had been permitted TO resume his
seat IT the counsels' table, called ont, d" II
your Honor please, desire 10 ask il there
/ is any motion that ought to make to res
cue my rights 7"
Mr.. Scoyllc tried 10 prevent his speak
/ ing, but he retOried, Well, don't want
/ any advantage taken OF me. | want TO
/ know how much time shall have 10 pre-
pare my appeal TO the court in banc."
Mr. Scoyille: Please keep quiet; We
/ haven't reached that yet.
Guiteau with much cXctcmenO: won't
( keep quiet ! am here, and propose to do
my own talking.
/ JUDGE Cox then informed Mr.. Scoy.lle
of the rules Of practice applicable 30 the
/ filing % his exceptions. and alter this
matter had been arranged Colonel Cork
hill renewed his motion. saving at is
now my duty ~ ask for the sentence OF the
/ Court"
Judge Cox 90 prisoner. stand up.
HIVE You anything to say why sentence
should not be passed upon YOU!
Gm'eau (,till sitting: ask your Honor
to postpone sentence Il, long as possible.
Judgo Cos: Stand mp. Have You any
| thing TO say why sentence should not now
be pronounced upon You:
The prisoner then arose. pale, but with
liDs compressed and desperate determine
/ ton stamped upon his features.
In low and deliberate tone he began,
bnt soon his manner became Mild and 1io-
lent, and, pounding upon the table, he de-
livcred himself of the following harauguc:
II am not guilty OF The charge set forth
IN the indictment. il is Gods act, not
mine. and God will take care Of If, and
don't let the American people forget It.
He viii take care OF il, and every officer OF
this Government, from Che Executive down
TO that marshal, taking in every man on
that jury. and every member OF this bench,
will pay Tor II, and the American nation
will roll in blood ii my body goes into The
ground and | am hung. The Jews pat The
deSpised Galllean into the grave, and for
a time they triumphcd, but at the dcslrdc-
ton Of Jerusalem, forty years afterwards,
the Almighty got even with them. | am
not afraid Of death. | am here as Gods
man. Kill me tomorrow, II you want 10.
am Gods man, and have been from the
START
Judge Cox then proceeded TO pass the
sentence, addressing the prisoner rs fol-
lows:
"YOu have been convicted OF crime SO
reaching that il has drawn upon you the
horror OF the whole world and The eXecra-
tions Of your c0untrymcn. The excite
mcnt produced by such an offence made IL
no easy task 10 secure Tor YOU q lair and
impartial trial; but you have had the
mower OF the United States Treasury and
Government in your service to protect
vour person from violence, and to procure
evidence from all pats Of the country.
You have had Is fair and impartial jury
n ever assembled in q court OF justice.
You have been defended by counsel with
zeal and devotion that merits the highest
cncomum, and l certainly have done my
best to secure fair presentation OF your
defence. Notwithstanding all this you
have been found guilty. 1t would have
been q comfort TO many people il the VCr-
diet OF the Jury had established the fact
that vorr net woS that Of an irresponsible
man. II would have left the people salts
! fving belize that the crime OF political as
sa,>inatiOn was something entirely foreign
10 the institutions and civilization OF our
country, lut the result has denied them
| that com Ort.
"The country will accept it as fact that
crime can be committed, and the Court
will have to deal with it with the highest
/ I enaltv known to the criminal code TO serve
! rs an example TO others. Your career has
/ been 90 extraordinary that people might
well mt times have doubted your sanity
hut one cannot but believe that when the
crime was committed you thoroughly I'M
derstood the nature OF the crime and It
consequences"
Guiicau: 81 was acting as Gods man.
"And that YOU had moral sense and con-
science enough to recognize the moral inl-
guilty OF such an act"
The prisoner: That's matter OF Opin-
ion"
"Yom own testimony shows that you
recoilcd with horror from the idea. Gou
say that YOU prayed ainst it. You say
that YOU thought it might be prevented
This shows that your conscience warned
Won against Il, but by the wretchcd sophiS'
try OF YOUR own mind you worked your
self ND AGAINST the protest OF your OWL
conscience. What motive could have in
duced Won TO do this act must be matter
Of conjecture. Probably men will thinl
tint some political fanaticism or morbiC
: de- ire for self-eXaltatiOn was the real in
spiration for the act. Your own testimon!
p seems to controyeIt the theories OF YOU
counsel. They have maintained anC
thought honestly, l believe, that yol
were driven against your viii by IN in
SINE impulse to commit the act; but You
testimony showed that you deliberately re
solved 10 do ii, and that deliberate and mis-
guided will was the sole impulse. Thi
may seem insanity 10 some persons, but tn
law looks upon il a. wiliul crime. Nol
, will have due opportunity of having an.
errors 1 may have committed during tn
: course Of your trial passed upon by th
: court in banc; hut in the mean while ii |
: necessary for me TO pronounce the senienc
OF the law-that YOU be taken hence TO "a
: common jai of this District from whenc
YOU came, and there lie kept in coniinc
ment, and on Friday the 30th day OF June
1882, YOU be taken TO the place OF cXecu
ton, within the walls Of said Jail. an
there, between the hours OF II VI. and I
{ NJ, you he hanged by the neck until 20
ere dead. And may the Lord have mere
I on your soul"
During the reading Guiteau stood apps
rently unmoyed, anG with his gaze riyete
: upon the Judge; but when the final word
,, were spoken he struck the table violently
i and shouted, 4" Ana may the Lord hay
: mercy ON your soul. l had rather stan
where do than where that jury docs, IN
where your Honor does. Pm not afraid
. die. | stand here as Gods man, and Go
!. Almighty will curse every man who hi
: had part In procuring this unrishtcou
D verdict. Nothing but good has come frol
; Garfield's removal, and that viii be Ii
verdict Of posterity on my Inspiration.
% don't care snap for the verdict Of th
;. corrupt generation. l would rather tho'
sand times be in my position than in tn
Of those who have bounded me 10 dealt
] shall have a glorious flight 10 glory. bl
that miserable scoundrel Corkhlll Will Ia,
"A porrnaneuf ioh dawn below Nhere n