Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-25

IlOn aJ nome ana ABROAD OF admirers OF llLel.
lectual greatness, of the loftiest eloquence
and of the greatest craftsmanship, than
any one, perhaps, of his time. A Bit
ter partisan, but man honest in all
his undertakings; a man faithful to his
friends, faithful to his convictions, even
though they involve sacrifice a man
: who was capable of doing what
but few men are capable-resigning the lead
ersbip of the American Senate, and to do it
at the peril of his own political destruction
man of unstained integrity, courage, fear
lessness and manliness, which made this with
drawal matter of regret even to his political
) adversaries-such man is to-day arraigned
, before an American jury, and arraigned not
by criminals, but by criminals defender
[" Without my knowledge" interpoeed the
prisoner, as responsible for the murder OF
| Garfield.
GENERAL GRANT.
Another of those SO arraigned Is man
more honored ia the Confederate States than
any American save their own cherished lead
er, General Lee man who is honored In the
, Northern States for services rendered. first IN
war, and afterwards in reconciling the diff
entities which grew out OF the war man
: whose life has been without dishonor and
without reproach; man elevated to consplc-
uous positions, the successor of Washington,
Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln, who, after he
> ropean and Oriental land as one of the ablest
men and purest personal characters to be
named in the history of the nineteenth Gen.
tury-that man is arraigned by the lawyers
: of Guiteau IS But not by Guiteau." inter-
rupted the prisoner as responsible for the
murder of General Garfield.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR.
More than that. we have the President of
the United States
The prisoner-Made SO by the inspiration
of Guiteau DO not You forget that, MIR.
Porter. You don't represent him here,
either.
Porter-The successor of Garfield, of
Hayes, and Lincoln, and jackson, and JEFF.
ferson, and Adams, and Washington, elevated
to that position, not by an assassin, bat by
the voice OF his countrymen. When this
creature says, 81 made Arthur President"
he forgets that General Arthur was made
President by the voice of his countrymen, by
that very voice which made Garfield Presi-
dent. He was made President under the
Constitution and laws. Millard Fillmore was
lust as truly elected by the people as the
President whom he succeeded.
The prisoner-That is a false statement.
Mr.. Arthur and Mr.. Fillmore were nomin-
ated as Vice Presidents, and would not have
been nominated as Presidents at any time.
! AN ORANGE PEEL OR a RATTLEsNAKE.
This man told you in his speech last Satuf:
day that Garfield might have died from any
other cause that he might have trod upon
an orange peel and received an injury which
might have caused his death; or that he
might have trod upon a rastlesnake, whose
fangs might have pierced his heel. Was it an
orange peel or rattlesnake that made Arthur
| President?
Neither" said the prisoner.
fbo hos
shown himself all his life to be as slippery as
an orange peel and as venomous as a rattle.
! snake.
The prisoner-Thats false, and you
| know it.
Porter-But in one respect rleaner than
rattlesnake, for Providence provided in respect
| to that reptile that there shall be a warning
at one end and venom at the other. This was
| a rattlesnake without rattle but not with
out fangs, and when he tells you he made
General Arthur President of the United
| States he made him President in Just the
same sense which rattlesnake might have
done it-by introducing into President Gar
fields veins that venom which in eighty days
would bring him down to the grave.
GARFIELD AND THE ASSASSIN.
| Mr.. Reed, as counsel for the prisoner, has
chosen to pose here friend of Garfield.
take it for granted that he has read those
memorable sayings of President Garfield,
simple as childhood, guileless, frank. sincere
his dying utterances. Between Guiteau's
bullet and Garfelds death, in one of his wax
ing hours, on the 11th of July, the President
asked Mrs. Susan Edison where Guiteau
was, This was while he expected to re-
cover He then remarked that he supposed
people would come to him some day with
petition to pardon the man, and he wondered
what he should do in personal matter of life
| NJ Aa1l l. -,
think he would do nothing at all that he
surely could not pardon such man, and the
President said. "No, [ do not suppose l
can" and vet Mr.. Charles Reed to whom
the American Bar is indebted for the intro
duction to its ranks of the prisoner Guiteau,
undertook to say that the President regarded
him as an Irresponsible man.
CHRIST AND LUNATIcs.
Passing on to criticising Reeds arguments,
and his illustration as to Christ casting out
devils and healing lunatics, Porter said: The
Savior made distinction between the sick
lunatic and those Of brains. The claim here
is that this man was enormously wicked as
to be, in the language of DR.. Spitzka moral
monstrcsity. He represents the class of
which the Savior spoke-not lunatics, but
possessed Of devils.
"That is bosh,n exclaimed the prisoner.
"B.o-s b." spelling it out.
Porter-You know, gentlemen, how the
Savior dealt with those who were possessed
with devils. L am not able at this moment
to find the text.
The prisoner-You are not acquainted with
the Bible, see, Mr.. Porter. If you read the
Bible more and drank less wine you would be
better man.
Porter-A man who was possessed of the
devil came to the Savior and prayed to be de-
livered. The Savior granted his prayer, and
! commanded the devil to say who he was.
my name,n said the devil, SIS legioo," and
Re prayed to be allowed to enter into herd
of swine, because even devils go through q
form of prayer.
"Then its time for you to pray, said the
Porter-The Savior consented. What
became Of the swine after the legion had en-
tered the herd? They rushed down a steep
place into the sea and were choked. Whether
the devil who possessed this man Is or Is not
choked by the law, you are to determine
but the destination Of the diabolism such as
bis was thought by the Savior to be s6tting
for swine, and the ultimate destination even
of the swine was to be choked in water.
The prisoner-If you doi.'t stop drinking
wine the devil will choke you. You win GO
into drunksrd's grave yet.
MIR. Porter then went on to discuss the
points of law as laid down by Judge Cox in
this case.
THE RESPONSIBILITY QUESTION.
!, After ne had disposed of that question, he
took up again the question of responsibility of
the prisoner. What household, he said,
wuuld b sale, what church would protect its
worshipers, if this man were to escape
on a plea of irresponsibility. Is it
true that any man who has had an
insane cousin, an insane uncle, an
insane aunt or an insane ancestor, and who
is not himself insane, but knows perfectly
we'll that murder is legally and morally
wrong, is to eecape parliamentary stab.
or shoot, or waylay, or murder in any form
by dsy or night, and then claim in his vim
dication, not that he is insane himself, but
that somebody else was? II so, what IS
human lie worth? Nay, If it were true, every
insane man, no matter in what degree, no
matter whether from melancholy or from any
of those casual or occasional alterations of
mind is st liberty to commit burglary, 60 fire
your dwelling house, to set the city of Wash
iueton on fire when the frost shall stiffen the
water and when fire will be most destructive,
TO ravish your daughter. What security is
there that The license for which this brother
in.law of Guiteau contends, namely, that law
Is intended only for rational men, ard that
all Of those crimes which | have mentioned
NAV be committed by license, If not from
In,.- b,,t fror, ono of the tWelya emDeroTs or