The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-04
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
from our Regular Correspor dent.l

If with the verdict guilty; which
gives such universal satisfaction, we
could have an end of Guiteau, and
see his miserable carcess buried out
Of sight, it would be relief to the
s0journers in Washington as we'll as
To the country generally. But the
indications are that proceedings in
the case, of some sort or another. will
go on for some months. 1t is certain
TO he from three to six months before
the present verdict can be given
practical effect. There is not a ghost
OF a chance for new trial because all
the errors, il any, have been on the
side of Guiteau and there are no
reasonable grounds upon which to
base the motion; but an appeal wi
he taken to the Court in General
Term and possibly to the Supreme
Court. all of which will cause delay.
The opinion prevails here that The
hanging will take place about July.
There is much regret that justice cam
not be reached sooner. One thing,
however, may be taken for granted
that in all future proceedings if the
assassin is brought into court he will
have to keep his mouth shut. There
will be no more calling witnesses
liars or denouncing counsel in their
arguments as lying whelps.
This remarkable trial with all it's
humiiating aspects has also had its
pathetic side, arising from the con-
nection Of the prisoners self sacrific-
ing~~S1ster with it. No one who
watched the benign-faced little wo-
man sitting faithfully in the court
room day after day, and knows any
thing of her tiraless devotion to her
brother, can fail to EN- ertan for her
feelings of profound sympathy and
resp ct. The portentious crime of an
insignificant and degraded man has
been the fearful background against
which two pictures of noble Ameri-
can WomanhUod have traced them
selves for the emulation and pride of
a nation. One-she who watched at
the bedside of the victim with such
dignity of love and firm self-repres-
sion-haS won the fullest need of
praise that watching world could
bestoW hut The other-she who has
been mother, sister. and friend to the
despiSed and exc rated criminal-ex.
erCises her ministrations in an ur-
popular cause, and has received no
reward except the ungrateful in
difference of the object of her care
and the impugnment of her motives
by preiudiced people. 1t was pililul,
and yet it compelled admiration, To
watch her in the court room paling
and flushing with the alienation of
! her feelings. One moment reSenting
with Indignation whatever locke ed to
her partial mind like wanton inius-
tice, the next bursting into tears she
vainly tried to hide when any of the
many painful developments in the
case came to the surface. 1t is only
the wretchedness and depravity of
the cause which prevents her noble
asSiduity from winning universal ac
clamation, yet the very loaths".ne-
ness of her task gives her conduct in
the matter its highest merit. There
can he nothing but pain IN befriend
ing such a monster of ingratitule and
hopeless degradation.
Washington society experiences an
aching void when the White House
is closed as at present. Six months
of mourniI G for the late President
will expire March 10, and then Presi-
dent Arthur will hold the usual levees
during the rest of the session. He
expects to give series of State dim
ners commencing very soon, but
those will be comparatively quiet
affairs. 1t is often remarked how
dreary the Executive Mansion looks
with lights in only one corner-the
private part ofthe house. The Presi
dent breakfasts quite late, and Sena
tors frequently begin calling before
he hns finished. He sees visitors and
attends to business until 2, when he
goes for drive. Sometimes on his
return he sees visitors by specitl ap-
pointment before dinner. President
Arthur. unlike his predecessors, does
not receive visitors in his Cabinet
room, not even Members of Congress
who call on business. He sees them
in the library, which is adjoining the
Cabinet room in the private part of
the house. He never sits while re-
ceiving visitors, but walks about
from one to another. giving each as
much time as he thinks proper, A
member of the House of Representa-
tiyes who has called on him several
times tells me he has never yet seen