The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-11
A VIOLENT LETTER.

Mrs. ScOville Protest against che Com
Armatiom Of Conktsne and Severely ~
ReAecss Upon the President 10 , d
! aud the Ex.senasOr. - isi 40
CHICAGO, February q THE follow.
ing was sent by Mrs. Scoyillc to Wash.
,i'3l CHICAGO, February 27th, 1882. l.
To the United States Senate: 7hi 80 A'dH
Roscoe Conkling for the Supreme
Bench Of the United States1 How
dare anybody give such, .prefermcnt to
the man who, of all others, should. be
punished with the execration of his
countrymen and Of the world for the
untold sorrow aud humiliation We have
suffered ?, Can they believe that the
convtctioni Of 'poor,t crazy e6uiteau,
lynched by process ,of law, wialso cover
up their ow n nefarious feeord that the
blinded nation and the world Mill no
more SEQ their 'iniqtdty,r ioat tqnietay
consent to bow down enthusiastically ,fo
"N1y I.ord'' Conkling when he shall
assumet JndhikI daiihz 81 Tie Aigh-
est court in the. e.afl5 lsnadflT5the court of last
resort: If such things are to be, where
are our boosted Liberties = Shalt l,eli-
llciaps pc allowed to stir. up strife over,
the spoils of Office until the very AIR IS
full of murder, and until some, poor,
fool, believing. they aae. ahont to plunge
the country into civil war, eera1ed BY
the thought, believing. himself God
eomnnissiohed to right the. trouble. to
save the country, shall remove the man
they are slandering ana defaming:
When all is over, and the tragedy
ended, when the suffering soul Of the;
martyretl President has foupd rest;
when the wicked cease from troubling ;.
when the poor victim of their poison
Gus utteranccs and his friends have
been delpded by the mockery Of a trial
by law, wherein the Judge, the, jury, the
the witnesses,s the officers Of
the court, the press and the people had
prejudgedi the case ), every adj
vantage of power in high places. nniiIn1
tied means and resources being taken
of the weak and defenseless; when the
political sea pegoat Is at last condemned
to the sacrifice;. when 10 the bereave6
mother, the widowed wife and the
fatherless children have been Knocked
by Il semblance of sorrow when sllnost
in the same breath with the signing
of these false politicians, even before
the sound of tho Garfield memorial
enlogy is heard, even before the sad
wall of the requiem has risen and died
away, there comes this atrocious noni-
ination of the man who is morally to
blame, to the highest Judicial honor, in
the gift of the man, who, by the force
OF circumstances, finds himself in poor,
Garfeld's shoes. DO they think by
playing this bold game to bluff the peo-
pie: Do they think that by, boldly.
giving Conlxlingi the. place he will
have the opportunity to clear his
own 'clohded escntcheon by iriercitessly
Guitean? r.r4 ,,-.,a y '..a.t
If anything further were needed to
fasten the moral guilt of this dreadful
crime more firmly where the world feels
that it belongs, it would be the ,unreas-
oning, the utter lack of justice and
mercy which the administration is
showing toward the victim of their own
utterances. Why are they determined
to hang Guiteau, sane or insane? Why
was all the power Of preferment and
place, not mentioning the corruption
of money, used to convict Guitcau
to "liang him, though a crank, as an
example to other crank s :'' Why? be-
cause tho political situation demands
a scapcgoat, and poor, frietiless Guiteau
furnished a devoted head whereon may
rest their sins for this whole, war wag-
cd against the dead President, the out
come of which looks so wicked. Now
that all is over, these noble, politicians,
of the opposition would fain hide their
sins in poor Guiteau's grave.
And will the people submit to all
this :Is the power Of ruling dynasty go
so omnipotent, that not one dare
to say it nay Shall no voice be raised ::
Have men sold themselves, body and