The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-02-05

lips compressed d a desperate ueter-
mination stamped upon his features.
In a low and deliberate tone he began,
but his manner became airy and VIC
lent, and pounding upon the table he
delivered himself of the following har-
angue:
II am not guilty of the charge set
forth in the indictment. 1t was Gods
act, not mine, and God will take care
of me, and don't let the American peo-
pie forget it. He will take care of it,
and every officer of this government,
from the executive down to the mar
shall, 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 1 am hung. The Jews
put the disposed Galalean in the grave,
aad for a time they t%riumphed, but at
the destruction of Jerusalem, forty
years afterwards, the Almighty got
even with them. 1 am not afraid of
death; 1 am here as Gods man; kill me
IL JOu Wohe L oh wv .
man, and 1 have been from the start"
Jude Cox then proceeded to pass sem
tence, addressing the prisoner as fol-
lows
"You have been convicted of a crime
so terrible in its circumstances, and SO
far reaching in its results, that it has
drawn upon you the horror of the whole
world, and the execration of your
countrymen. The excitement produced
by such an offense made it no easy task
to secure for you a fair and impartial
trial; but you have had the power of
the United States treasury and of the
government in your service to protect
your person from violence and to pro-
cure evidence from all parts of the
country. You have had as fair and
impartial a jury as ever assembled in a
court of Justice. You have been de-
Tended by counsel with zeal and devo-
ton that merits the highest encomium,
and L certainly have done my best to
secure a fair presentation of your de-
tense. Notwithstanding all this you
have been found guilty. 1t would have
been a comfort to MANY people If the
verdict of the iury had established the
fact that your act was That of an ire
sponsible man. 1t would have left the
people the satisfying belief that the
crime of political assassination was
something entirely foreign to the insti-
but the result has denied them hat
comfort. and the country will accent II
as a fact that that crime can be COM
mitted, and the court will have to deal
to the criminal code. to serve as an ex-
ample to others. Your career has been
an extraordinary hat the peonle mich.
we'll Mt times have N vour sanity
But one cannot but believe that when
the crima yas committed Won tborouob.
10 understood tho nature Of tho crime
and its conseouences-
Guitaau. WAS acting 40 God,s
man
And that you had the moral sense and
conscience enough to recognize the
iniquity of such an act.
Prisoner: That's O matter Of opin-
ion.
Judge Cox: Your own testimony
shows that you recoiled with horror
from the idea. You said that you
prayed against it. You said that you
thought it might have been prevented.
This shows that your conscience warned
you against it. but by the wretcbed
sophistry of your own mind you worked
yourself up against the protest of your
own conscience. What motive could
have induced you to commit this act
must be a matter of conjecture. Prob
ably a few men will think that some
fanatlcism 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 maintained, and thought
honestly, l believe, that you were
driven against your will by an insane
impulse. The testimony showed that
YOU deliberately resolved to do it, and
that a deliberate and misguided will
was the sole impulse This NAV seem
insanity to same persons, but the law
looks upon it as a wilfull crime. You
will have due opportunity of having any
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