Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-25

Judge Porter said: "Who else is responsible
John H. Noyes. He is responsible. He killed
Garfield. John H. Noyes, from whom the
prisoner stole his lectures"
"That is false. rely on my own brains for
my productions"
Who else? His father is responsible, that
father whom he struck when Is years old
He killed President Garfield; that father whom
he says he can never forgive and with whom
he had not for the last fifteen years of his
honored life, exchanged word. Who else
is responsible? Why, the mother; the
| mother whom he scarcely even remembers,
| who was guilty of the moustrosity OF having
| an attack of erysipelas, so as to necessitate
| cutting off of her hair some weeks before his
birth, and who for this reason, it is asserted,
transmitted eongenital insanity to this muir
derer. Who else is responsible? Why, Uncle
Abram, who was drunken and dissolute but
not insane. He transmitted insanity to him,
| although he did not become insane until after
he (the prisoner) was born. He killed Garfield
by making the prisoner insane. Who else is
! responsible? Why, Uncle Francis killed Gar
| field. Uncle Francis, who, as we are told,
being disappointed in love, either killed the
| husband of the woman he loved, or fought a
sham duel and long after became demented.
| He killed Garfield by making this man con-
genital monstrosity, as DR.. Spitzka says. Then
| unfortunately, was taken possession of by
one of this Guiteau tribe, travelling
mesmerist, and her young mind SO wrought
upon that finally she was, for better protect
Ion, sent to an insane asylum. She killed
| Garfield by making this murderer insane, and
as if all this were not enough to kill Presi-
dent Garfield
Guiteau-"Ther's enough to kill your case
according to your own showing"
Judge Porter-"Why the Chicago conven-
ton Killed him. If this hadn't nominated
him 1 should not have killed him.; says the
prisoner. "The doctors killed him, for if he
had not been chosen president he would not
have been killed. His nomination was the act
of God. His election was the act Of
God, says the prisoner, and he would have us
believe the Deity who had thus twice
correct his labors by appointing this wretched
swindler, this hypocrite, this syphilitic mon
strosity to murder the president, whose nomi-
nation and election he had confirmed. Those
are the defenses put forward by this prisoner
and his learned counsel to divert your atten-
ton from the fact that the
DELIBERATE MURDERER OF GARFIELD
is there pointing to the prisoner). But even
this is not enough. The press killed Garfield,
and the press is arraigned by the prisoner,
and without an indictment the press is found
guilty by the murderer, but fortunately they
are found guilty only by the blistered tongue
of the murderOus li&f himself"
Referring to Reeds suggestion about Mrs.
Garfield praying on behalf of the prisoner,
Porter said: "Imagine what sort OF creeds
these are that the counsel thus brings up.
Imagine the aged mother of the president
coming before you draped in black. Imagine
according to the old custom of English laws,
this trial taking place in the presence of the
corpse. Garfield mutilated by the murderer,
enwrapped in white linen, through which it
was supposed the mere approach of the muir
derer would start the blood to flow. Imagine
Garfield lying there, not one of the clavicles
of his back bone, but the whole man, cold in
death, with the death sweat not even yet dry.
his brow drawn with an expression Of agony,
which this prisoner put there and
with the covering assassin here, Sinking
fear approach to the body, which was required
by the old Princess of BIerrite. Imagine the
aged mother who had looked to that son to
close her eyes in death, bowling with grief at
the coffin head with Mrs. Garfield, whose lips
were the last that touched the cold lips OF the
president, sitting at his feet in dust and ashes.
If in such a scene Mr.. Charles Reed stood up
and said the woman who seems to you to be
kneeling only to God in her sorrow, is kneel-
ing to God in prayer that this murderer snail
be dealt with leniently, what would you think
of it? It is well for us all. gentlemen. that
the law does not call upon juror to leave
only the immortal part of their nature, their
moral nature, outside of the court house
when they come to administer justice.
Although Garfield is dead, the prisoner speaks
and has spoken on the witness stand these
words, which prove him to be not only an
assassin, but a meditating, deliberate, sane
and responsible assassin of the president. This
man slaughtered Garfield as he would have
slaughtered calf, had he wanted to eat.
"The doctors did that" said the prisoner,
"and having disposed of him in that way, in
comes his counsel and charges with crime
those who occupy too lofty position to
notice the vipers that said it, and who would
have degraded the dignity of their office by
noticing it. One of them is a distinguished
American senator, who at this moment, except
that he was too proud and too lofty to accept
office. would be sitting as chief justice of the
supreme court of the United States, the son of
who, still young in years, has CON-
manded more of attention at home
and abroad, of the admirers of intel
lectual greatness, of the loftiest eloquence
of the greatest craftsmanship, than any man,
perhaps, even of his time. Better still, he is
man honest in all he undertakes, man
faithful to his friends, faithful to his convic-
ions, EVEN though lucy Involve SdcrlNc6..
That man capable of doing what but few men
are, reslgning the leadership of the American
senate and do it at the peril of his own politi-
cal destruction man Of integrity of courage
and fearlessness and manliness which made
this withdrawal matter of regret even to his
political adversaries; such man is to day ar
raiened before an American jury and arraigned
not by the criminal, but by the criminals de.
Tense, (''Without my knowledge" interposed
the prisoner) as responsible for the murder
of Garfield.
Another of those SO arraigned is a man,
more honored in 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 reconcilating the diff
culties which grew out of the
war; man whose life has been
without dishonor and without reprOach;
man elevated to conspicuous positions, the
| successor of Washington and Jefferson, Jack
son and Lincoln; one who after he left that
place was welcome to every European and ORR
entail land as one of the ablest men and purest
personal characters to be named in the history
| of the nineteenth century; that man is ar
raigned by the lawyer of GuiteSu C"but not
/ by Guiteau" interrupted the prisoner), as re-
sponsible for the murder of Gen. Garfield
| More than that, we have the president of the
| United States.
| The prisoner-"Made so by the inspiration
of Guiteau; don't you forget that, Mr. Por-
| ter. You do not represent him here, either"
| Porter-"The successor of Garfield and