The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-02
= SISTERS AFFECTION.

We see from the papers iaat Mrs. SEQ
vILIE. the sister Of GJTTEAU, has written a
letter 10 NEs. G,EfrErb, asking that lady
TO intercede in behsli of Ter unfortunate
brother. Mrs. GARFIELD did not answer the
letter, neither did she keep the confidence
of the woe-strcken sister, but on the con-
trary. gave her letter to the public. The
New York Herald, commenting upon it,
saws: "MRs. GARFIELD, according to our
dispatches from Cleveland, has expressed
an opinion in regard to Mrs. ScovILLE's APP
neal to her to intercede in behalf OF the
murderer OF her husband. This exhibition oil
sisterly love and devotion is in one point OF
view to be commended, but at the same time
there is an indelicacy in bringing The mat
ter before the sorrowing widow OF the dead
president which cannot fail TO shock the
sensibilities of the country Mrs. GAR
FIELD very sensibly and justly declines to
interfere, and will allow the letter to re-
main unanswered. 1t is absolute cruelty to
solicit her intercession to reopen the
wounds, which, it is 10 be hoped, are be-
ginning TO close" We take it that the
Herald hardly voices the opinion OF the
country at large in this matter. We have
felt, deeply felt with Mrs. GARFIELD in her
great grief, and we feel for and sorrow with
her yet but we can also feel for the woe Of
that sister who would plead in behalf OF the
brother she loves so dearly. MRS. GAR
FIELD has the sorrow, the signs and the
PRAYERS of an entire nation with her in her
agony of bereavement, and upon the I'M
timely grave of her husband the tears of
80, OOO, 600 of her own people are shed. while
lamentations in foreign lands even have
been waited to our shores by the passing
winds. No voice Of sympathy for GUITEAU,
the assassin, is sounded, and no bosom OF
pity is open on which the stricken sister
can recllne her head as she weeps and walls
in her heart. GUITEAU may be an
assassin, n red-handed murderer,
cruel. insatiate demon TO all else, and
Die law and the multitude, may clamor for
his life, aud pitess fate may rear gibbet
black With infamy as the altar ofhis expia-
lion, but 70 the sister who remembers him
in his childhood, IN his boyhood, when the
same mother caressed bin and her and
fondled with them, and taught them topray
A. her knee and told them OF the mercy Of
God and OF His holy injunction, 'love thy
ueighbor as thysell to this sister be is sin
dear broiher, he is the mad, irresponsible
maniac his lawyers represented him
10 be on his trial, that the judge evidently
believed him 20 be, when with streaming
ewes and choking voice be passed sentence
o. death upon him. sorrow and grief are
s.lfs it istrus. but wherein is il iDdeli-
cate. as the Herald Claims. ior weeping,
bearl-broken sister, bowed down IN agony
Of roul. to appeal for the brother she be-
Iieves 90 Re crazy and irresponsible, 70 the
--i,lgr Of Lis vicliIn, whose E-itf can be no
g-,rfer fian hers-oan scarcely he so great,
r.- itlsDot Swallowed with dsgrace, ID il
not uniuumined with sympathy,
with kindness. with broihe-iy and
easrlv love. with she con9olsn-
.cas Of her own people and 81 The poieutates
add people o. every other cline where evil
izafion il known. For the grave Of Gan
rrr4p. s-ricFen down IN bis prime. in the
rleuituds 81 his power and in the fen
blaze ol his rory and a his fame ns be
xas. there are tears and imrnorteiles, sighs
and fiebers. ruflings and rnocses, and al
ovsr the lnnd scuiptured marble and en-
e-nven brouzs yin Be reared 70 tel q his
r-eafnsss and Of his fnue. For the ErsTe
IN Grrrrau the-s vii BE only tbs cl0ds q
fbs valley IN q mound, viii