Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-02-09
Guiteau9s Got to Suffer the Ex
treme Penalty Of the Law.

WARRINGTON. February 4 = After the mo-
Guiteau, who had been permitted to resume
bis seat at the counsel tnbe. called out: "If
your honor pleaso. desire to ask if there is
any motion that / ought to make to secure
my rights3"
Mr.. Sepville tried to prevent his speaking,
but he retorted: "Wel, don't want any
advantage taken of me. want to know how
to tho court en- bano."
Mr.. Scoville-"Please keep quiet, wo
hasen't reached that yet"
Guiteau with much excitement)"-I won't
keep quiet. am hero and propose to do my
own talking"
Judge Cox then Informed Mr.. Scoville Of
tho rules of practice applicable to the fling
been arranged, Colonel Corkhill renewed his
motion, saying: 1T is now my duty to ask
for the sentence Of tho court"
Judge Cox to the prisoner--"Stnnd up.
Have you anything to say why sentence
ehould not now be passcd upon you2"
Guiteau, still sitting--'I ask your honor
to postpone sentence Us long as possible"
Judge Cox-"Stand up. Have you any
thing to say why sentence should not be
pronounced upon you now2"
Tile prisoner then arose, pale but with lips
compressed and o desperate determination
stamped upon his features. In low and
deliberate tone he began, bu, soon his manner
became Wild aud violent aud pounding
upon The table, he delivered himself Of the
following haranguc:
81 am not guilty Of ihc charge set forth in
the Indictment. 1t was Gods act, not mine,
and lie will take care Of it, and every officer of
the government, from the executive down to
that Of marshal, taking in every man on that
jury and every member Of this bench will
pay for it and tho American nation will roll in
blood il my body goes into the ground and
am hung. The Jews put the despiscd Galli-
lean into The grave; for timo they tri-
umphed, but at tho destruction Of Jerusalem,
forty years afterwards, tho Almighty got
even with them. / am not afraid Of dcnth. /
nm here rs Gods man. Kill mo Tomorrow
if you want to. am Gods man and I have
been from the start"
Judge Coz then proceeded to pass the sem
tence, addressing he.prisnner as follows:
you have been convicted Of crimc so
terrible in its circumstances and 80 far
reaching that it has drawn upon you tho
horror Of the whole world and the exeora-
tioDs Of your countryn ca. Tho excitement
produced by such an offence made it no easy
task to secure for you fair and impartial
trial. but you have had tho power of the
United States Treasury and Government in
your service to protect your person from
malice and to procure evidence from all parts
OF the country. You have had az fair and
impartial jury as ever assembled in n court
of justice. You have been defended by
your counsel with zeal and devotion that
merits tho highest cncomiums of the people.
certainly have dono my best to secure o
fair presentation or your defense. Notwith-
standing all this you have been found guilty.
1t would have been comfort to many people
if the verdict of the jury had established
the fact that your act was that Of IN rrc,
sponsiblo man. 1t would have left the
people satisfying belief that tho crime of
political assassination was something entirely
foreign 10 tho Institutions and civilization of
our country, but the result has denied them
that comfort. The country will accept it as
fact that the crime Gun be committed and the
court will have to deal with the highest
penalty known to the criminal code, to sorve
as on example to others.
"Your career has been 80 extraordinary
that people might we'll at times havo doubted
your sanity, but one cannot but believe that
when tho crime was committed you thor.
oughy understood tho nature of the crime
and it's consequ
GuiteNu-"l was acting rs God's man."
"-And that you had moral sense and
conscience enough to recognize tho moral
iniquity Of such an act"
The prsoncr-"That's q matter Of opin-
ion."
Judge Cox-"Your own testimony shows
that you recoed with horror from tho idea.
you say that you prayed against it. You say
that you thought it might be prevented.
This shows that your conscience warned you
against it, but by tho wretchcd sophistry of
your own mind you worked yourself up
against the protest of your own conscience.
What motive could have induced you to this
oct must DO n matter Of conjecture. Probably
men will lhink that some political fanaticism
or morbid desire for self cxatation, was tho
real inspiration for the act. Your own
testimony soems to controvert the eyos of
your counsel. They have maintained and
thought honestly, l believe, that you wero
driven against your will by an insane i'm.