Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1881 — GUITEAUIS PLEA. [ARTICLE]

GUITEAUIS PLEA.

Statement tfrhioh He Wanted 1 to Make to the Court. Washington Star. It was stated in the report of proceedings of the Criminal Court in the |p»t evening’s dtar that Guiteau produced a paper from his pocket which he wished to read, but. was prevented by the court. The paper which Guiteau intended to read was as follows: “If the court please I wish to say that! have beeß tefflMy villi fled by the pfes’, rind it has made some perI sons bittef and itotfulsive agaiiHt me On October 4 the I!tCW Tork Herald ! published seven columns from my au- : tobiog -aptly,, which I expect to issue ' goon fu a book. Aside from the impertinent stateftteirts that 1 am a creature of the greatest vanfty did crave ' toriety, which are absolutely false, and similar tfnkind statements, I am indebted to th| refforter and tire Herald for giving » I plead ; riot guilty tqtiie indictment, and iriy defense w tiirt«fold: • I. lusaniiy, in that it was God’s act and not min# The divine pressure on me tri remove the President was. so enormous that it destroyed my ffoe agency, and therefore I am not legally reenpusible for my act. ‘ * The President died from malpractice. Aboift tb*e* weeks after lie was bis physicians, a Mareful examinatlob, uvC.*ded that he would recover. Two months aiv»T •bis official announcement he died. Tbervfore. I say he was not fatally shoL it he had been well treated he would

b«v P recfoteterf. “3. The Presidetit died hi New Jersey,- aud therefore beyond the jiristfk? tl*n of this court This malpractice And Prefldfiut’s dfeath fu New Jersey are special and I ana bound to avail mySelt it them oft ttty trial, injustice to* tbe Lordand myself. I umlef.&treto say that tbe Lord is Managing pry cfise as b Consummate* ability, and'that He , had a special object in, allo win; the President to d!6‘ in New Jersey, His management of this case is worthy of Him as the Diety, and 1 have entire coufT fence in His diposition to protect me arid send me forth to the world a free and Vindicated man. ‘He uttered His voice,’ say* the psalmist, 'and the earth melted? This is the God I served when I sought to refhove tbe President. The Lord and the people do not seem to agree in this ewe. The people considtr tbe. President’s an unbearable outrage, and me a dastardly* arssssln,and they prayed the Lord to spare tbe President Vor nearly three month* the Lord kept tbe President at the point of death, aud then allowed him to depart, thereby confirming my act. The mere fact of tbe President’s death is nothing. All men have died, and all mt n will. Gener d Bumside died suddenly about the time the Pns’dent did. Tbe-President and General Bumside were both splendid men, aud no one regrets their departure muse than I. The President died from malpractice and General Burnside frpm apoplexy. Both wefe special providences, and the K>ple ought ro quietly stlbrnH. to the rd in the .matur. The President would not have died had the L >rd not wished him to go. I have no cuncSfl-; tion of It as murder, or as an assassination. I Lad ao feeling of wnrag doibg' when I bought to remove him, because it was God’s act, and net mine, for the good of the American people. I . plead not guilty to th", indictment?’