Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-25

than rattlesnake, for Providence has provide
in respect to the reptile, there shall be q warn
| ing at one end, and venom at the other. Thi
| was rattlesnake without rattle, but no
without fange, and when he tells you he mad
| Gen. Arthur president of the United States, h
made him president in just the same sense il
which rattlesnake might have done it, by in
| Producing into President Garfeld's veins tn
| venom which in eight days would bring HIN
down to the grave. Mr.. Reed, as counsel TO
| the prisoner, has chosen to pose here as tn
friend of Garfield. take it for granted he ha
read those memorials saying of President Gar
| field simple as childhood, guileless, frank
sincere, his dying utterances, between Gui
teau's bullet and Garheld's death.
In one of his waking hours, the 18th O.
July, the president asked Mrs. Susan Edsor
where Guiteau was. This was while be ex
pected to recover. He then remarked he sup
posed the people would come to him som.
day with petition to pardon the man and hi
wondered what he should do in personal
matter of life and death. Mrs. Edison TOLD
him she should think he would do nothing al
all, thathe surely could not pardon such q
man, and the president said "No, do moi
suppose car, and yet, Mr.. Chas. Reed, to
whom the American bar Is indebted for the
introduction, to its ranks, of the prisoner
Guiteau. undertook to say the president
Passing on to criticize Reeds argument and
his illustrated as to Christ casting out devils
and healing lunatics Porter said 1.-THE Say.
iOr made distinction between sick lunatic
and those possessed of devils. The claim here
is this man was SO enormously wicked as ia
be, in the language of DIR. Spitzka, an 'oral
monstrosity.' He represents the class OF
which the Savior spoke, not lunatics, but
possessed of the devil"
- -
''B-o-sh," spelling it out.
Mr.. Porter-sYoa know, gentlemen, how
the Savior dealt with those who were posses
sed of devils. am not able at this moment
to find the text
The PrisOner--You are not acquainted with
the bible see, Mr.. Porter. If you read the
bible more and drink wine less you would be a
better man.
Mr.. Porter-"A man who was possessed by
the devil came to the Savior and prayed to be
delivered. The Saviour granted his prayer,
and commanded the devil to say who he was.
My name, said the devil Is LEGION aud he
prayed to be allowed to go into herd oil
swine, because even devils go through the
form of prayers"
"Then its time for you to pray" said the
prisoner.
Mr.. Porter--"The Saviour consented but
what became of the swine after the legion
had entered the herd? They rushed
down steep place into the sea
and were choked. Whether the devil that
possesses this man is or is not to be choked
by the law, you are to determine, but the des-
tination of diabolism such as his, was thought
by the Savior to be fitting for swine and ulti-
mate destination, even If swine, was to be
choked in the water.
The prisoner--"If you do not stop drinking
wine the devil will choke you. You will go
into drunkard's grave yet"
II might" said Judge Porter, ''detain you a
week, but am here for the purpose of ascer-
tanning whether this man is guilty, and these
collateral issues will not DELAY upon. The
junior COUNSEL" said Judge Porter, 'has told
you you are kings, and imagines you may over
ride the law and the evidence in grasplng an
almost intangible doubt and ignoring the
solid structure of the evidence of guilt. You
are not kings. and the man who told you SO is
the junior counsel, the only man in fifty mil.
lions who would or could recommend Guiteau
for Office" Recess