The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-02-09

care Of il, and don't let the American
peopIe forget it. He will teke care OF il,
and every officer of this government
from the Executive down TO that marshai.
taking in every man on that jury and
every member OF this bench, will pay !,
for It. and the American nation will roll
In blood if my body goes into the ground |
and am hung. The Jews put the de-
spised Gallilean into the grave. For |
time they triumphed, but at the destruc-
tion of jerusalem forty years afterwards
the Almighty got even with them.
am not afraid Of death. EN- here as
Gods man. Kill me tomorrow if you
want. am Gods man and have been
from the start"
Judge Cox then proceeded to paes
sentence, addressing the prisoner as fol-
lows: dYou have been convicted of o
crime so terrible in its circumstances and
so far reaching that it has driven upon
YOU the horror of the whole world and
| the execrations of yonr countrymen.
The excitement produced by such an
olfcnse made it no easy task to secure for
YOU fair and impartial trial, but you
have had the power Of the United States
Treasury and the government in your
service to protect your person from oil
parts of the country. You have had as
fair and impartial jury as ever assem-.
bled in Court Of justice. You have
been defended by counsel with zeal and
devotion that merits the highest encomi.
UNI, and certainly have done my best
to secure fair presentation of your de-
fense. Notwithstanding oil this you
have been found guilty. 1t would have
been a comfort to many people if the
verdict of the jury had established the
fact that your act was that Of an irres-
ponsible man; it would have left people
the satisfying belief that the crime of
political assassination was something en-.
tirely foreign to the institutions and
civilization of our country. But the re-
suit has denied them that comfort. The
country will accept it as fact that the
crime can be committed, and the Court
will have to deal with it witr the high
est penalty known to the criminal code,
to serve as an example to others. Your
career has been 30 extraordinary that
people might we'll at times have doubted
your sanity. But one cannot but be-
| lieve that when the crime was commit
ted you thoroughly understood the ma
|
[Guiteau: II was acting rs Gods man
and that you had moral sense and con:
science enough to recognize the moral
iniqui!y Of such an act. Tho prisoner {:
'Thats a matter of opinion."] Your
own testimony shows that you recoiled
} with horror from the idea. You say that
you pra, ed against it you say that you
thought it might be prevented. This
shows thGG your conscience warned you
against it but, by the wretched sophis.
, try Of your own mind, you worked
yourself up against the protest of your
, own conscience. What motive could
have ind :ed you to this act must be a
, matter OF conjecture. Probably men
, will think that some political fanaticism
, or morbid desire for self exaltation was
the real inspiration for The act. Your
: own testimony seems to controvert the
theories of your counsel. They have
o maintained, and thought honestly, be-
lieye, that you were driven against your
! will by an insane impulse to commit the
! act, but your testimony showed that you
! deliberately resolved to do it, and that o
deliberate and misguided will was the
5oie impulse. This may seem insanity
to some persons but the law looks upon
it as willful crime. You will have due
opportunity of having any errors I may
have committed during the course OF
: trial passed upon by the Court-in.b banc
;, but meanwhile it is necessary for me to
}, pronounce the sentence of The law
8 That you be taken hence to the common
t Jail of the District, from whence you
: came, and there be kept in confinement
I and on Friday, the 30th day of June
:, 1882. you be taken to the place of exc
Il cution within the walls Of said iail and
? there, between tho hours of IL and {
n p. M, you be hanged by the neck until
you are dead; and may the Lord have
Z mercy on your soul.''
During the reading Guteau stood an
3 parently unmoved and with his gaze
!. rveted upon the Judge; but when the
y | final words were spoken he struck The
v table violently and shouted: "hni may
sie Lord have mercy on your soui Il
rather stand where do than where tha
+ jury does and where your Honor does
? I'm not afraid to die. 1 stand here al
: : Gods man and God Almighty will curse
every man who has hai q part in pro
9 curing this unrighteous verdict. Moth
ing tut good has come from Garfield
removal, and that will be the verdict O
. postcrity on my inspiration. Idon't car
a snap for the verdict of this corrup
generation. would rather thousant
: times bo in my position than that of thos
who have bounded me 20 death. shal
have aglorious fight to glory, but tha
> miserable scoundrel Corkhill will have
permanent job down below, where tn
devil is preparing for him."
After apparently talking himself ou
the prisoner turned 10 his brother, and
without the slightest trace of excitement
converseC for some minutes before beinl