The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-01-19

Well, if the Lord did it, let it go The
President did not die before his time.
If the Lord had not wanted him he
would not have departed. Physical /
death is nothing; all men have died all
men will die. The President might
have been taken by railroad accident
or slipped on an orange peel and broken
his neck.
The interview with Brooks | consider
special Providence in my favor. /
talked with him freely about the Deity,
my inspiration, and the political situa-
tlon, which showed the condition of nv
mind July I'd, when l was precipitated
on to the President. A vast deal of rub
blsh has got into this case on both sides.
The issue here is, Who fred that shot
the Deity or me| Had | fired it ON nv
own personal account, no punishment
would be too quick or too severe for me.
and this is why protected myself by
going to Jail and having the National
troops ordered out.
would humbly suggest that the iury
De charged as follows: That if they be.
lleye believed ii right forme to remove
the President because / had special
| Divine authority for SO doing, they will
acqult on the ground that | was over
/ powered by the Deity.
Allef quoting Beecher, Talmage and
! other clergymen and declaring that
! when he became President in 1854 he
| would clean out the MOrmOns right
| speedily, me closes thus TO the Jury: To
| hang man in my meltal condition
| July I'd, when ! fred on the President.
| would be a lasting disgrace TO the Ameri-
I can people. The mothers .ud daughters
OF The Republic are praying that YOU
will Vindicate my inspiration. | beg
you, do not get the Deity down on you
by meddling with this case. / beg, for
your own sakes, and for he sake of the
American people, and for the sake of
generations yet unborn, that you let
this case alone. You cannot afford to
touch 1T. Let your verdict be that it was
the DeiJy's act, not mine. When the
President was shot, his Cabinet tele-
graphed to foreign nations that it was
the act of "a mailman" and it will be
for the better, everyway, that it be Off
cially decided that it was the act of %.
madman."
MONDAY.
ScOville began making the final argu
ment for the defense to-day. He said:
The District Attorney, Porter, Davidge,
and Drs. Hamilton, Macdonald, Kemp
ster, Gray and Worcester had cOnspired
together to hang the accused. Ameri-
can journalism, to its lasting disgrace.
had anticipated the verdict. Judge
Davis charge in the Coleman case was
an attempt to influence the decision of
the Court in this case. Davidge inter
rupting, Guiteau told him: keep
quiet! You talked two days and said
nothing, now give us a chance
The jury were bound to acquit, even
if they found Guiteau knew the differ
ence between right and wrong on July
I'd; if they also believed he, through
| mental disease, believed God required
him to do the act for the good of the
country and to avert civil war. The
prosecution had failed to show anything
tending to prove that Guiteau was a bad
man, and unlikely to sincerely be af-
fected to any religious feeling or delu-
sion,
TUESDAY.
Guiteau said he had received checks.
for 900 and $4,000 and asked for
more. ScOville continuing his argU-
ment said Guiteau was honest in his be-
lief that he was inspired, and he pitie0l
the human being whO with the light of
t. 18th century of christianity seoffed
a inspiration.
~ NEDN ;SDAY.
Cor tinuing to-day Seoyille said:
Back Of The prosecution of this priS-
OneT," is the Government of the United
States, and l arTaign before you, gentle
men, as those who are crOwding this
man to the gallows, persons high in au-
thOTity. | say, without favor, that the
movers of this prosecution are those
politicians whd-seek to hide their own
infamy by casting the blame upon this
insane man. l say that such men as
COnkling and Grant and Arthur, those
who made war without justification
upon that dead President, whom they
have since lauded to the skies, institut-
ed that state7 of things, and manufac-
tured that degree of public excitement
aud popular feeling that pTeyed upon
this insane mind until reason # its
throne, and he did that which, con
slider was in perfect accord with their
cOunsels and their conduct. | should
not perhaps have said this, gentlemen.
| did not intend to do it when | opened
the case. | expected then fair and
impartial trial. | supposed | would
have the bare pittance, that | asked for,
and which, as an American citizen, |
was entitled to, and to which every
criminal was entitled to, until jury
pass verdict on him. | have come to
the conclusion that l shall not spare
those men who followed this strife and
prompted these lawyers to make scape
goat of this man, so that they shall stilf
be reveTed and hOnOred in the public
estimation. For men placed so high in
power, elevated so high by the suffrages
and opinions of their fellOw-men as
these persons, l have feeling of regret
that they should forget their high du-
ties, that they should descend from the
high positions in which they have been
placed to the petty ignOminiOus scram-
BILE for place and office, which was ex-
hibited in their warfare, waged upon
Garfield. Do you believe, upon your
Oaths, that this crime would ever have
been committed. if COnkling and Platt
had not resented the nomination of
Robertson? Those men, who since his
death have been so profuse in their ad
miration of Garfield, who have said so
many things in laudatiOn of his char
acter and purposes, were ready, before
July I'd to trample him to the earth if
they had the opportunity. They were
ready to degrade and disgrace him.
They were perfectly willing to see him
go down in Obscurity and disgrace to the
grave if it could be done without the
aid of the assassin's hand. admit that
Conkling is great statesman. COnk-
ling, with these qualities, had no right,
he had no business to engage in petty
quarrel about an Office and wage war
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