The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1882-02-11
GUITEiT SENTENCED.
Friday, June sOth.

cable 10 the ming or his exceptions,
and after this matter had been ar
ranged, Colonel Corkhill renewed
his motion, saying, at is now my
duty to ask for the sentence of the
cOrIrt.n
Judge Cox to the prisOnerl-
Stand up. Have You anything to
say why sentence should not now |
be passed upon yOul
Guiteau (still sittingl-I ask your /
Honor to postpone sentence as
long as possible.
Judge COx-Stand up. Have !
you anything to say why sentence
should not be pronounced upon
youi
The prisoner then arose, pale,
but with lips compressed and a
desperate determination stamped
upon his features. In low and
deliberate tone he began, but soon
his manner became wild and vio-
lent, and pounding upon the table
he delivered himself of the follow
inn harangue:
GUlTEAU's SPEECH.
"I am not guilty of the charge
set forth in the act. II was Gods
act, not mine, and God will take
care of it, and don't you let the
American people forget it. He
viii take care of it, and every Off
Ger Of this government, from the
executive down to that marshal,
taking in every man on that jury
and every member of this bench,
viii pay for il, and the American
nation will roll in blood if my body
goes into the ground and | am
hung. The Jews put the despised
Galilean in the grave. For the
time they triumphed, but at the de-
struction of Jerusalem, forty years
afterward, the Almighty got even
with them. | am not afraid OF
death. | am here as Gods man
XII me tomorrow If yon want.
am Gods man, and | have beer
from the START
SENTENCED.
Judge Cox then proceeded tC
pass sentence, addressing the pris
oner as follows: "You have beer
convicted of a crime so terrible il
its circumstances, and so tar-reach
ing in its results, that it has draw
upon you the horror of the Who'll
J. world and the execrations OF you
eountrymen. The excitementpro
duced by such offense made it NJ
} easy task to secure for you q fai
and impartial trial, but you hay
d had the power Of the United State
q treasury and of the government |
N your service TO protect your pei
= = son from violence, aud to proeur
r evidence from all parts of tn
a country. You have had as fai
- and impartial a jury as has eve
assembled in a court of justice
You have been defended by com
sci with a zeal and devotion thu
merits the highest encOmiums, an
certainly have done my best
secure fair presentation OF yoI
defense. notwithstanding all th
YOU have been found guilty.
g would have been comfort to mal
+, people if the verdict of the jul
had established the fact that yoI
act was that of an irresponslb
man. 1t would have left the pc
pie the satisfying belief that t
crime of political assassination w
something foreign to the instit
tions and civilization of our cou
try. But the result has deni'
them that comfort. The count
will accept it as o fact that tn
crime can be committed, and {
court will have to deal with it wi
the highest penalty known to t
code, to serve as an example
Q others. Your career has been
extraordinary that people mig
well at times have doubted yo
sanity, but one cannot but belle
that when the crime was comm
! ted you thoroughly understood
nature of the crime and the con
Ill., quences, IGuiteau-"I was acti
as Gods man," and that you b
IL moral sense and conscience enou
to recognize the moral iniquity
the such an act. The prisoner-"Tha
a matter of opinion" Your o
tor testimony shows that you recoil
with horror from the idea. \
say that you prayed against
You say that you thought it mil
be prevented. This shows thatyC
conscience warned you against
ave But by the wretched sophistry
your own mind, you worked 20
end self against the protest OF "