Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-28
IFrsm Our Regular CorresPondeni.l
Washington Letter.
w,su,xaroy, DC, june p, 1882.

Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June "a, 1882.
Iwrete you two weeks ago that there
was a systematic effort on the part of bis
kindred cranks to obtain pardon for Gui-
teau. Tnis effort has assumed very def
mite proportions. and on yesterday the
president was waited upon by gang Of
sentimentalists run msd and so-called
experts in lunacy (from personal expert
ence, il is presumed), beseeching him to
save the precious life OF Guitesu. Now il,
as Sir William Hamilton says, the mind is
the man, and, as these petitioners urge,
Guiteau has no mind. what is there to save
from the gallows' Nothing but the crime.
The crime is all that makes Gui,esu
distingui.hable. He burst upon the world
as a crime, and bis individuality uDelothed
with that infsmy is not worth moments
consideration. 1t then follows that these
petitioners and their sympathlzers are the
conspicuous advocates of a conspicuous
crime, impure and simple. They urge
their suit with learned jargon about the
opinions of the medical fraternity. With
all respec, for the doctors OF medicine they
know no moro about insanity pure and
simple than the doctors of divinity know
about in6uity pure and simple. There is
an essence in each beyond the ken Of sci
nece. We do not understand mems. How
then can we define the frontier wher 9
conlp0s mems becomes non con,pos? We
say this man has good sense but that man
is irration al. And sentimentalists. with
fantastic logic, try to reverse the laws Of
nature and promote the survival of the
unfttest by saying that this se-called IRA
tional man who planned and rehearsed bis
crime for weeks, and arranged In such
minute details as TO engage carriage to
take him to jail-to the very place where
the criminal law says murderer shall be
tsken-is irresponsible, q ergo innocens
or course there is but one opinion as tc
what President Arthur will do in the
matter. That opinion is that he will do
nothing. He has referred the petition e
the general for an opinion this i!
merely formal. Meanwhile, Friday,the sou
of June, is approaching,wh the nsuse
Gus subject will be put beyond argument
The Senate this week passed bill ap
propriating 100000 for the erection of al
annex to the White House. The annex il
to be on the south side looking toward tn,
Potomac and the sky-piercing Washington
, Monument. The White House in it
+ present condition is quite spacious resi-
, dence Tor a small family. 1t has held, a
. many reception, no less than tw,
t thousand persons, but the American Pres
ident is the most hoSpitable monarch
on the globe aud immigration is increasin!
very rapidly. Besides, Georgetown-tha
rookery Of old bankrupt first families
= with propensity to turn up the nose a
!, parveneu Washington-has been made
I part and parcel of the capital, to it
(Georgetown's) great disgust. So with
nation of fifty millions, including George
J town, and a steady influx OF Dutch an
Irish, to say nothing Of natural increase
Caucasian and African, it is felt desirabl
e to build a few more apartments to tn,
palace.
| Washington furnishes more sensation
= than any other city in the country, an
D the bench and the bar never fail to cor
l. tribute more than a due proportion.
l very few years ago two judges on th
+. bench shed copIous tears Of mortiicatio
n because Of alterations with counsel. Ar
d other Judge was the constant subject {
I irony and ridicule by the bar because @
q the displays which his habits led him int
a \ week or two ago, during the progre:
Y OF the star route trials, one Of the couns'
Z" called another OF the opposing counsel
liar, and two or three days subsequentl
an associate OF the first called an associat
: of the second pup. In the crimini
court room to-day Mr.. Robert Ingersol
u who has been overbearing and discourt
Gus during the entire progress of the ST.
,. route trials, served notice in characterize
= style and manner, on the counsel for Il
e prosecution that none of them dare spea
Is to him. In the equity court room. Il
d Judge became involved in heated discu
!, u sion with an attorney as TO the fling
:, certain papers, and when the lawyer la
If them on the desk before his honor Il
Il latter threw them at his head with all b
u might. and did not miss bis aim