The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-02-02

uon TO notice the vipers that said it, and who
wouio nave degraded the dignity of their Office
py noticing it. This man told you in his speech
iast Saturday that Garfield might have died
,,v.n, Nun any otner cause,that he might have trod
upon an orange peel and received an injury
Mncn might have caused his death, or he
Hnsnt nave trod upon q rattlesnake, whose
langs might have. pierced his heel. Was it an
orange peel or q rattlesnake that made Arthur
fresident" Neither" said the prisoner.
botn because the prisoner has shown him.
sell all his life as slippery as an orange
peel and as venomous as q rattlesnake."
Judge Porter continued: "Mr. Reed, as coun-
SCI for the prisoner, has chosen to pose here as q
ileno OF Garfield. take it for granted he
mas read those memorable savings of President
Garfield, simple as childhood, euileless. frank,
slncefe-nis dying utterances between Guiteau's
puilet and Garfeld's death. In one Of his
yeklng hours, on the 11th July the President
- rss-anean aEdson where Guit~aa gAss-
sz Bss Ihiio ne zpsctsza % Tsooyer. he
then remarked he supposed TIE people would
come to him some day with q ypstition to
pardon the man, and he wondered what he
should do in q personal matter Of life and
death. Mrs. Edison told him she should
think he would do nothing at all
man. and the President said: mo, I do not
suppose cam And yet Mr.. Charles Reed, to
whom the American Bar is indebted for intro
duction to its ranks of the prisoner, Guiteau,
unoertook TO say the President regarded him az
an an irresponsible man.. Passing on to criticize
Reeds arguments, and his illustration as to
Christ casting out devils and healing lunatics,
Porter said: "The Savior made q distinction
between the sick lunatic and those possessed Of
devils. The claim here is that this man was 80
enormously wicked as to be, in the language Of
DR.. Spitzka, moral monstrosity He repre-
sents class Of which the Savior spoke
mot lunatics, but possessed of devils.
man who was possessed of the devilcame to
the Savior and prayed to be delivered. The
Savior granted his prayer and commanded the
devil. lis legion; and he prayed to be allowed
TO go into o herd OF swine, because even devils
go through the form Of praying. The Savior
consented. What became of the swine after
the legion had entered the herd2 They rushed
down into 3 steep place into the sea, and were
choked.' Whether the devil that possesses this
man Is or is not to be choked by the law, you
are to determine. But the destination of dia-
tolism, such as his, was thought by the Savior
to be fitting for swine and the ultimate desti-
nation, even OF swine, was to be choked in
water" In forcitle manner Judge Porter
summed up six reasons why the prisoner should
be convicted, each Of them based on the prison.
er'stestmony. Mr.. Porter, referring to the testi-
mony of Mrs. Scoville, paid her acompliment as
sincere woman, and said she had never noticed
insanity in the prisoner until the time when he
raised an AZ upon her, when he was thirty-fve
years of age. The prisoner-"That never oo-
Cured" Mr.. Porter-"Your sister swore it
did occur, and she is a woman of truth, while
you have committed perjury. She came into
Court with unbloodied hands, and she went out
Of it as she entered it, an honest woman, be-
lieying what she asserted. Il lifted no AZ
against this sister, He did. There is his own
sister-the only one who has stuck by him
faithfully and honestly-she tells you honestly
the first time she thought him insane was when
| he was thirty-fve years Of age. She said: Il
had no thought before that ne was not in his
right mind. >" Judge Porter continued to speak
until the hour Of adjournment without con-
cluding.