National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-04
Glory to each and to all, and the charge that they
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WHITELAW REID.
a General DIsturbcr OF the Peace-FIis
AtrOciOus Conduct.

To the Editor of TIE REPUBLICAN,:
1t appears to me time that the infamous asser-
lions, and still moro Infamous innuendoes of the
Tribune. and other sheets who emulate, though
that cannot equal It's atrocity, should receive the
attention of the proper legal authorities If there is
any law under which the melting of assassination
can be punished and that if there is no such law,
the sooner one is placed ON the statute books the
better. IL there is any such law, will you be kind
enough to inform the public why Whteaw Reid
is not present iucarceraed In Jail awaiting trial
or the execution of his sentence2
1t will not do TO make light
of this matter, and Mr.. Reid stands
convicted out of his own mouth for If the oppo-
sitiOn of Senator COnkling to what he consd-
cred an encrOachment of the Executive upon the
rights OF the Senate, and which 1t was his sworn
duty under such circumstances TO resist, made him
in the most remote degree responsible for the act
Of the poor wretch now awaiting his fate in our
Jail, how, and on what ground, could the editor
of the Tribune have defended himself had some
assassin taken General Grants life in response to
his advertisement?
YOU HAVE DONE THE PUBLIC A GREAT SERVICE
by recalling that nttroclous publication, but be-
lieve that any intelligent citizen will admit that
1t was no more an Indictment to murder than the
attacks upon General Grant, Vice. President Ar.
thur and Senator Conkling that were made by the
Tribune Immediately after the assassination of the
truthfully denied that unless their object was to
suggest to the already over excited minds of the
New York mob the murder of those gentlemen
and inclte them to the act there neither sense
nor pu pose in them, and that they must be classed
with tie rawlings of dangerous maniacs.
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN PLEADED
that these articles were written under the excite
ment ofthe times and that they were inspired by
the horror of the Catastrophy and the loss of the
power and patronage that had been so long
schemed for just as II seemed within grasp, and
that under these circumstances latiuIla
should be allowed, Unfortunately for Mr.. Reid he
has again prevented any eXtenuating plea by his
course from that time 10 the present. No sane
man will deny. not even the most earnest and de.
voted friend a., of s,i those gentleman that
pect that any one save the poor. wretch
ever conceived in his own mind so foul crime
it should be torn to light and the author punished.
But there Is no man living to-day within the
evidence Is full, complete, and overwhelming that
Gniteau had no accomplish; but that the foul
crime was conceived aud developed in his own
brain. Under these circumstances no man save
one who was an assassin at heart and lacked only
Guiteaus courage TO be one i'll fact would or could
have penned the articles in the Tribune on the
subject above referred to; and feel confident
that any Intelligent man will admit that such arti
Giles, published in any European capital under
similar circumstances, would have
RESULTED IN VIOLENCE AND BLooDsHED.
II is high time that this talk about the lottery OF
assassination should cease General Arthur IN
President to-day by virtue of the decree of the
American Nation. He Is as much President as
General Garfield was; his title is the same aud
can neither be dispuednOr controverted except by
an assassin or n traitor, Let Mr.. Reid beware.
This is not good fold for oowardly meters TO as.
sasslnatiOn, and should evil boial tho President,
that crime will have u short Shirt, and n quick
one JUSTICE,