Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-16

strOyed. I was under duress in law. Any
one under duress Is not responsible for his act.
On this ground ask you to acquit me. How
40 we know you was under duress!
My word for it. No one else can
know the fact but the Deity and me.
l know it. The deity knows 1t. I had to do
my duty to the deity and to the American PEG.
pie regardless OF consequences to myself. No
one wants to
SHOOT OR HANG ME
now save few cranks who are so ignorant
they can hardly read or write. High toned
people are saying "Well, if the Lord did it lei
it CO." 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 to die. 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
impression and political situation which
showed the condition of my mind July End,
when was precipitated into the present
RUBBISH.
A vast deal Of rubbish has got into the case
on both sides. The issue here is who fired
that shot, Deity, or me. Had fired it on my
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 arsenal troops ordered out.
CHARGE TO THE JURY.
would humbly suggest that the jury be
charged as follows: "That if they believe
that believed it was right for me to remove
the president because had special divine a,l-
thorlty for so doing, they will acquit on the
ground that was overpowered by the Deity. :"
After quoting Beecher, Talmadge and other
clergy, and declaring that when he became
president in 1884, he would clean Sout the
Mormons right speedily, he closes thus 10
the jury: To hang man in my mental con-
dition on July I'd. when fired on the presi-
the American people. The mothers
and daughters of the republic are
praying that you will vindicate my inspira-
ton. I beg you do not get the deity down on
you by meddling with this case. beg for
your own sakes and for the sake of the Amer
lean people, and for the sake of generations
unborn, that you let this case alone. You
cannot afford to touch it. Let your verdict
be that it was the deity's act not mine. When
to foreign nations that it was the act of
a mailman and it will be better every way that
it be officially decided that it was the act OF a
mad man.
GUITHAU SUNDAY.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-Guiteau was appa
rently in the best of spirits this forenoon when
a representative of the Associated Press called
at the Jail: 81 have decided not to sell my
speech for money" he remarked, "but to give
it the widest public circulation through the
Associated Press. I want every man, woman
and child in America to have an opportunity
to read it.''
He was asked, chow were you pleased with
Reeds speech yesterday" and imme.
diately replied: "Well I don't take any stock
on Scoville's theory or Reeds either, and I
should not like to trust my defense to them.
Charlie made good speech though, and it
interested me, but wouldn't give cent a
bushel for that kind of talk" Then after a
short pause, 81 don't know though, but it
may be just as well to have that go before the
jury" with grin: "There may be some soft
fellows among them who will believe am an
imbecile.n