St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-02-11
GUITEAU SENTENCED TO BE
HUNG ON THE 50rH
OF JUNE.
HE SAYS HE WILL HAVE "a
GLORIOUS FLIGHT
TO GLORY"

The motion for new trial In the
Guiteau case was overruled last
Saturday, and Judge Cox asked the
prisoner if he had anything to say
why sentence should not be passed
upon him.
Guiteau thereupon arose and
spoke as follows:
Il am not guilty of the charge
! set forth in the indictment. 1t was
Gods act, not mine, and God will
take care of it; and don't let the
American people forget it. He will
take care of it: am every officer CT
this Government, from the Execu-
tive down 10 the Marshal, 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 # my body goes into
tho ground, and am hung.
THE Jews put the despised
Gallilean into the grave; tor a. time
they triumphed: but at the destruc-
ton of Jerusalem, forty years after
wards, the Almighty got even with
them.
81 am not afraid of death. I am
here as Gods man. Kill me to.
morrow, if you want. l am Gods
man, and have been from the start.
Judge Cox then proceeded to pass
sentence, addressing the prisoner
as follows:
you have been convicted of
crime so terrible in its circnm-
stances. and SO far reaching, that it
has drawn upon you the horror OF
the whole world, and the execra-
ton OF your countrvmen. The
excitement produced by such Of
Tense made it no easy task to SECURE
tor you fair and impartial trial;
but you have had the power of the
United States Treasury and Gov
ernment in your service, to protec.
you, and to procure evidence from
ali parts of the country. You have
had as fair and impartial a jury as
ever assembled in a court of Justice.
You have been defended by coun-
sci, with zeal and devotion that
merit the highest encomiums of all.
l certainly have done my best to
secure fair presentation of your
defense. Notwithstanding all this,
you have been found guilty.
! sit would have been comfort to |
many people if the verdict of the |
jury had established the fact that
your act was that of an irresponsi-
BILE man. 1t would have left the
people the satisfying belief that the
crime of political assassination was
something entirely foreign to- the |
institutions and civilization of our
country; but the result has denied |
them that comfort. The country
will accept it as a fact that the
crime can be committed, and the
court will have to deal unto you the
last penalty known to the Criminal
Code, to serve as an example to
others.
Your career has BEEN so extra
ordinary that the people might
well, at times, have doubted your
sanity; but one cannot but believe
that when the crime was committed,
you thoroughly understood the Ia
ture of the crime and, its ,conse-
auences. 4
Guiteau-"I was acting as Gods
man." /
"And that you had moral sense
Ind conscience enough to recog-
,ize the moral iniquity Of such an
vet"
The prisoner-''That's q matter
If opinion" |
Your own testimony shows that
'ou recoiled with horror from the
dea. You say that you played
'gainst it. You say that you thought
might be prevented. This shows /
hat your conscience warned you
gainst it; but by the wretched
of your own mind you [
worked yourself up against the
'rotest OF your own conscience.
what motive could have in
luced you to this act must be I
natter of conjecture. Probably
zen will think that some political :
or morbid desire for
was the real inspira /
ion for the act. Your own testi- i
nony seems to controvert the theo-
les of your counsel. They have 1
maintained and thought honestly, |.
believe, that you We're driven
gainst. your will by an insane in,-
l. 4 u.