HYPER PRETERIST ASSASSIN:

Charles Julius Guiteau

Murdered President Garfield
Executed by Hanging June 30, 1882

Member of JH Noyes‘ Oneida Community

Charles J. Guiteau
A True Believer in
“Preterist Reformation”

12/20/12: Final expectation of Oneida Preterist – “I am now going to read some verses which are intended to indicate my feelings at the moment of leaving this world. If set to music they may be rendered very effective.. I wrote it this morning about ten o’clock “Final expectation of Oneida Preterist – “I am now going to read some verses which are intended to indicate my feelings at the moment of leaving this world. If set to music they may be rendered very effective.. I wrote it this morning about ten o’clock “

“As a child, Charles Julius Guiteau was beaten savagely by his father, who accused him continually of violating God’s laws. He ran away from home as a teenager, but internalized the criticism sufficiently to become a religious fanatic. He published a plagiarized book of religious philosophy titled Truth, and eventually fetched up at John Humphrey Noyes’s utopian Oneida community in New York, which taught that the second coming of Christ had occurred in 70 AD, and thus that we were all already redeemed and free of sin. Among other things, the residents of Oneida practiced free love, despite which the conspicuously unattractive Guiteau couldn’t obtain a partner. The women of Oneida nicknamed him “Charles Gitout.” Crispin Sartwell

“This is going to turn Christendom upside down. I’ll have more people here than I have now. Copernicus said the world was round, and everybody believed him mad. There may be some who will say I am mad.”

QUOTES FROM “THE TRUTH”

Yes, yes, thou Paul, waited only two years for thy “crown.” Thou wert executed AD 68, and thy Master came at the destruction of Jerusalem, AD70, and gavest thee thy “crown” (Guiteau, p. 30)

During all these ages, Christ has not appeared in response to this expectation, and we propose to show that the reason He has not appeared is because He came at the siege of Jerusalem, A. D. 70, “in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory,” and judged “the quick and dead,” the righteous and wicked of the primitive Church and Jewish nation. This is the proposition we intend to establish by a careful review of the New Testament. ” (33)

he says that the “Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall punish them with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power;” II Thess. i. 10, he speaks of Christ’s coming to be glorified in “His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe in that day;” thereby meaning the day of Christ’s coming, which occurred at the destruction of Jerusalem, A. D. 70, when He judged the primitive Church and Jewish nation.” (48)

In the interest of a sound theology it is of the utmost importance to know the truth about Christ’s second coming. It is useless for Christendom to hope and pray for His coming, because it is a fact already accomplished. They may as well look it square in the face and adapt their faith and conduct to the fact. It is believed these views are destined to revolutionize the theology of eighteen centuries. Christendom must have a new theology — a theology to fit the fact that Christ came A. D. 70. The great practical effect of this doctrine will be to establish the faith of Christendom in the Bible. This doctrine throws a calcium light upon the New Testament. It illuminates its otherwise mysterious words, verses, and chapters. No one can understand the Bible without thin view of the second coming. It is a living stream of water running through the New Testament. This doctrine is the missing link, uniting Primitive Christianity with modern Christianity, and, it is believed, Holy Ghost power will come to the church by a belief in this doctrine. Thousands have rejected the Bible, to their eternal death, on account of its apparent inconsistency, not knowing the truth concerning Christ’s second coming.” (53)

This doctrine ends the communion: “Do this,” says Christ, “in remembrance of me, till I come.” If we behold His coming eighteen centuries in the past, an ordinance commemorating Him as a conquering hero would be appropriate. A correct knowledge of Christ’s second coining is almost as important as a knowledge of his first coming. (54)

For two thousand years, i. e., since His covenant with Abraham, He sent upon them the rain and sunshine of religious discipline, and the harvest was reaped at Christ’s second coming. For nearly two thousand years, i. e., since Christ’s coming, A. D. 70, the Gentiles have been under His care, and we believe the Gentile harvest is near at hand. We believe we are living in “the dispensation of the fullness of times” (Eph. i. 10, Rom. xi. 25) ; that the second resurrection and final judgment are in the immediate future, which will end the Gentile harvest. At the final judgment Christ will judge the world from His throne in heaven, and He has no need to return to earth for any purpose. It is not necessary, or even desirable, that Christ should return to earth again. When He was here He was badly treated. Heaven is a thousand times better than this sin-cursed earth. We submit, that our friends of the Prophetic Conference are in the dark, and we offer them this book, as the only rational solution of this matter. ” (54-55)

We epitomize the history of the race thus : Adam, Noah, Abraham, Christ’s birth, Christ’s death and resurrection, Christ’s second coming, A. D. 70. Christ’s second coming is the pivotal fact of history. (55)

His appearing ” in the clouds of heaven,” at the destruction of Jerusalem, and the slaughter of eleven hundred thousand Jews, was the outward sign of that spiritual judgment, in which the Almighty judged the entire race, except those living on earth at the destruction of Jerusalem. All who had lived on the earth, and died, were judged at Christ’s second coming, at the siege of Jerusalem, A. D. 70. (60)

There were two classes in the Primitive Church — those that expected Christ’s coming and those that did not. An individual’s belief or disbelief in His coming decided his final destiny. He appeared at the siege of Jerusalem “with His mighty angels,” to those who were looking for Him, and took them to glory. To those who looked not for Him He came not. They were left on earth, and their seed has represented Christianity all these ages. They were the unfaithful servants of whom Christ so often spake. (61)

On nearly every page of the New Testament, we find the speedy coming of Christ “in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory,” held up by the Evangelists, and especially by the Apostle Paul, as an event which would give to the “saints ” of the Primitive Church, and the righteous dead of past ages, a secure and glorious redemption. It was the consummation of their effort, the reward of their faith and devotion to the Master ; and yet, for eighteen centuries, Christendom has known it not. The very curse Paul says (II Thess. ii. 11) should come upon the church, has been upon it since Christ came, A. D. 70. ” And for this curse,” says Paul (thereby meaning the unbelief of the Antichrist part of the Primitive Church, concerning Christ’s coming, then close at hand), “God shall send them” (meaning the Antichrist part of the Primitive Church, and which Christianity since has represented), “strong delusion,” that they should “believe a lie”; and Christendom, for eighteen centuries, has not known the truth touching Christ’s second coming. The reason they have not known it, is because it was the Antichrist part of the Primitive Church which Christ left on earth when he judged the race at the siege of Jerusalem. It is this apostate Christianity that has assumed to represent Christ all these ages. As they forsook the coming of the Lord, so has the church, commonly called Christian, done in all ages. (61-63)

WHEN Christ appeared at the destruction of Jerusalem, A. D. 70, the entire human race (save those then living on earth,) were judged ; i. e., the ” sheep ” were separated from the “goats ; ” z. e., the righteous went to heaven and the wicked to eternal punishment. Prior to this resurrection and judgment, the entire human race (i. e., the dead part of it,) were in Hades, awaiting their resurrection and judgment, which took place when Christ appeared at the destruction of Jerusalem.” (79)

As the entire human race (i. e., the dead part of it), prior to the destruction of Jerusalem, A. D. 70, were detained in Hades, awaiting their resurrection and judgment, so the inhabitants of this earth, since A. D. 70, have been detained in Hades awaiting their resurrection and judgment, which will take place at the end of the world. Paul (he was executed A. D. 68) only waited two years in the Paradise of Hades after his death for his “crown,” i. e., till Christ came, A. D. 70. Abraham,* however, was * In Luke 16: 19-31, wo, are told that a rich man interviewed Abraham, and thereby learn that Hades is composed of two wards, — the one for the righteous ; the other for the wicked. It is fortunate for us who love Christ that we live so near the judgment, as we are sure to see Him soon. (81-82)

NEWSPAPER RETROSPECTIVE
Chicago Tribune July 3, 1881

Mr. Guiteau made an effort to reach the public to ventilate his peculiar ideas as a lecturer.
The Tribune of Jan. 14, 1877 contained the following advertisement

‘A RELIGIOUS LECTURE. CHARLES J. GUITEAU. The Lawyer and Theologian, Will Deliver for the First Time His Lecture on CHRIST’S SECOND COMING, A. D. 70, at this Clark St. Methodist Church, Saturday Evening, Jan. 20, 1877, at 8 o’clock. Doors open at 7. Admission 25 cents; free to all who can’t spare 25 cents, (as he is working for the Lord and not for money. The presence of clergymen, Biblical students, and all interested in a sound theology, is requested at this lecture. It is full of live ideas which are destined, it is believed, to shake Christendom. If Christ came A. D. 70, i. e., at the destruction of Jerusalem, he never will again, and the sooner Christendom know it and adapt their faith and conduct to the fact, the better. The lecture is based on the work of Jesus Christ, the expectations of Paul, and the primitive Christians. The lecturer proposes to deliver this gospel in all the principle cities in Europe and America.’

‘This argument is based, Mr. Reporter, on Matt. xiii., 24, 29, 30, 31, and I should like you to make a note of it. And I desire to call your attention, Mr. Reporter, to the pestilence, war, and famine that followed His coming. Josephus speaks of Christ as one Jesus, a country fellow who went about.

‘I desire a special note of this, Mr. Reporter. People say the Bible teaches the Gospel must be preached before Christ shall come. I show that the Gospel was preached, and I would like you to take down that fact, Mr. Reporter: and He foretold the end would come. This is important, Mr. reporter, for the end did come.

‘By the way, I wish you would give these references, Mr. Reporter, for these references show that the Antichrist has come.” At this point the reporter stopped to sharpen his pencil, it appears, and the lecturer indulged him, and the audience tittered. Resuming he said, after numerous quotations from Revelations:

‘These show that Christ has been here, but why has not Christendom known of it? This is especially important, Mr. Reporter, and I desire that you would take it down. For nineteen centuries, Mr. Reporter, Christendom has been kept in ignorance of this event. All the ministers and Biblical students ought to have come here tonight, but they didn’t. You will find the Apostles’ explanation of this also important, Mr. Reporter, but I shall defer consideration of it until another lecture. Nineteen centuries have been afraid to face this thing, but after I have been abroad and shaken them up a little they’ll come and hear me. Moody could only raise 300 people until he went abroad.

‘Here is an item about Paul, Mr. Reporter, for Paul said Christ would come again. Peter did not know what he was talking about. Please make a note of that, Mr. Reporter. The Christianity of Paul’s Church has been a mockery, Mr. Reporter, and I wish you would note that fact. That is the reason the ministers are not here tonight. Moody shook them up a little, and maybe I will before I get through.

‘Now, Mr. Reporter, I will give you the Biblical references only, because you will not have space for this argument. [Reads references.] They will only take seven or eight lines, Mr. Reporter: Can’t you put them in? Then these ministers can look them up tomorrow.

‘I have only two more items, Mr. Reporter, and I’d like you to take them. Please take these references also, Mr. Reporter. [Reading from I. John. ii,. 18] Thus you will see, Mr. Reporter, the antichrist has come. Now, Mr. Reporter, if you will note down I. John, iii., 2, and I. John, iii., 19, we will be almost through.

‘We will now examine Revelation in relation to Christ’s coming. After I have read the references to the reporter I will explain them to the audience. I will give you the references, Mr. Reporter. [Reads.] The substance of this is that Christ told them that He was coming quickly. The last words of John were that Christ was coming.

‘Now I am almost through, Mr. Reporter. Can’t you take the rest? It is short. I told Mr. Hall if he wanted any money he could have it, for I want a good report of this lecture. This is going to turn Christendom upside down. I think this is destined to combine the Christian churches take that down, Mr. Reporter. By the way, I will give you the latter part of this, Mr. Reporter, if you don’t want the trouble of writing it down. Hereafter we shall roam up and down history, sacred and profane. I’ll have more people here than I have now. Copernicus said the world was round, and everybody believed him mad. There may be some who will say I am mad.'”

The Assassination of President James Garfield

The Apprehension of Charles Julius Guiteau – Picture from “The Life of President Garfield”

Published in Chicago Tribune, July 3rd, 1881

“On the 4th of January, 1877, the Tribune was in receipt of a message and certain accompanying documents from Guiteau. …The enclosure [consists of five proofs] covering an argument to show that the second coming of Christ, which the Evangelical Church is expecting some time in the indefinite future, is an accomplished fact and that it took place A. D. 70, at the time of the burning of Jerusalem. Mr. Guiteau has collected all the texts in the New Testament having reference to a second coming, and the main reason which leads him to this conclusion is that Christ Himself, in all the references which he makes to His return, used it in connection with the words ‘this generation,’ meaning thereby His contemporaries. Besides this, John, Paul, and other evangelists stated, without qualification, that the Savior would come before the end of the first century.

“The only witness who takes the contrary view, says Mr. Guiteau, is Peter, who states in one of his epistles that, at the time of Christ’s coming, this globe which we inhabit is to be burned up. Mr. Guiteau upsets this, however, by the statement that Peter was a bold, impulsive, unlearned man, blameworthy in many things. He thrice denied his Lord and once rebuked his Master. It is nearly 1,900 years since Peter wrote, and yet this globe has not been burned up. Hence, Mr. Guiteau concludes, that Peter’s opinion that Christ’s coming and the burning up of the earth were to be simultaneous events savors of the things of man and not of God. Mr. Guiteau objects to the testimony of Peter, and puts him out of court.

“He also fortifies his conclusion that Christ came the second time at the siege of Jerusalem, by stating that the locality of His coming was necessarily the place of His greatest early agony. He was crucified at Jerusalem. There are in addition other points drawn from Josephus, the American Encyclopedia, and other publications, which confirm Mr. G. in his conclusions.

“The coming of antichrist is also proven, and Mr. Guiteau promises to develop the theorem that the antichrist part of the primitive church and its successor, modern Christianity, are one and that same. While admitting that many righteous people, himself included, have lived since A.D. 70, yet Christianity, as a church organization, has been a mockery.

“These views Mr. Guiteau is ready to defend at any time and place, and proposes to renounce [his] law [practice] and devote his life to preaching this particular gospel, which he believes will shake Christendom worse than Martin Luther did three centuries ago. His eye, he says, is upon eternity; and he expects to go abroad this spring. If he can convert Great Britain to the gospel of the Second Coming, he can soon get America, the rest of Christendom, Africa, and the islands of the sea under his thumb.

“Persons desiring his services as a preacher of this special creed can address him at No. 144 Dear-born street, car-fare enclosed. Mr. Guiteau explains in his letter that this is a great discovery, and that he has sent copies to the other city papers for simultaneous publication. He adds that he would be pleased to have Moody, Swing, Cheney, and others of the clergy, as well as Storrs, Reed, and other lawyers interviewed about the matter, which, he believes is destined to turn Christendom upside down.

“Following this, and ten days later Mr. Guiteau made an effort to reach the public to ventilate his peculiar ideas as a lecturer. The Tribune of Jan. 14 contained the following advertisement:

‘A RELIGIOUS LECTURE. CHARLES J. GUITEAU. The Lawyer and Theologian, Will Deliver for the First Time His Lecture on CHRIST’S SECOND COMING, A. D. 70, at this Clark St. Methodist Church, Saturday Evening, Jan. 20, 1877, at 8 o’clock. Doors open at 7. Admission 25 cents; free to all who can’t spare 25 cents, (as he is working for the Lord and not for money. The presence of clergymen, Biblical students, and all interested in a sound theology, is requested at this lecture. It is full of live ideas which are destined, it is believed, to shake Christendom. If Christ came A. D. 70, i. e., at the destruction of Jerusalem, he never will again, and the sooner Christendom know it and adapt their faith and conduct to the fact, the better. The lecture is based on the work of Jesus Christ, the expectations of Paul, and the primitive Christians. The lecturer proposes to deliver this gospel in all the principle cities in Europe and America.’

He is, it is said, “a vigorous and pleasant speaker,” and begs leave to request a large attendance. The report of the much-heralded lecture, which appeared in these columns Sunday, Jan 21, 1877, was interesting reading at the time, and is doubly so now. His audience, it appears, consisted of seven ladies and fifteen gentlemen, notwithstanding the bills announced that it was free to all who could not spare 25-cents admission fee. The receipts were only $1.85, the report set forth, but the lecturer was by no means discouraged, and saw that the reporter was provided with every facility to do his work. Starting out by quoting the prophecies of the Bible about the coming of Christ, which was proof of his position, he addressed himself especially to the scribe, who was apparently his most attentive hearer, in the following words:

[End of Chicago Tribune excerpt]

From The Decatur Daily Republican, July 5, 1881:

“John F. Morris, of Hartford, has in his possession the lecture on “Christ’s Second Coming, A. D. 70,” by Charles J. Guiteau, styling himself a Chicago lawyer and theologian, published in Washington in November, 1870. The lecture is to prove that the second coming of Christ occurred at the siege and destruction of Jerusalem, A. D. 70, and consists largely in extracts from the word of Jesus and from the various Epistles.”

Amazon.com has a listing for Charles J. Guiteau’s “A Lecture on Christ’s Second Coming, A.D. 70” (currently not available).

Charles Guiteau had been an off-and-on member of the preteristic, “free love” cult known as the Oneida Community from about 1865-70. Guiteau’s father was a personal friend of the cult’s founder, John Humphrey Noyes. Guiteau was considered mentally unbalanced and even “insane” by his fellow cult members (and by most other people who had dealings with him). The women of the cult had rejected him and nicknamed him “Charles Gitout.”

A Bibliography of Sources Relating to Charles J. Guiteau
Compiled by Libby Chenault for the Bullitt Club 11/08/05

Guiteau, Charles J.: A LECTURE ON CHRIST’S SECOND COMING 70 A.D. Hartford. 1878. 30pp. plus original frontispiece portrait. Original printed wrappers bound in modern red cloth, leather label. Despite John Wilkes Booth’s considerable dramatic abilities, Charles Guiteau is the only assassin of a President to be published. Not that this odd bit of revelation is any literary masterpiece; the theme suggests the imbalance of mind which led him to shoot the unoffending President Garfield four years later. Marked “Second Edition” on the cover, but we cannot find anyone who has seen the first. Guiteau items are, needless to say, quite rare. This copy includes an original photographic portrait of Guiteau supplied as a frontispiece.”

Alexander, Henry H. The Life of Guiteau and the Official History of the Most Exciting Case on Record: Being the Trial of Guiteau for Assassinating Pres. Garfield. Des Moines, Ia.: W. H. McClain, 1882.
Philadelphia: National Pub. Co., 1882.

Alger, Horatio, Jr. From Canal Boy to President, Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield. By Horatio Alger, Jr., Author of Ragged Dick; Luck and Pluck; Tattered Tom, Etc. Illustrated. New York: John R. Anderson & Company, No. 17 Murray Street. 1881. Copyright, 1881 by John R. Anderson & Co. Edward O. Jenkins, Printer and Stereotyper, 20 North William Street, New York.

The American Experience. Insanity on Trial. United States: WETA‑TV, 1990.
Alexandria, Va.: PBS Video, 1990.

Das Attentat auf Prasident James A. Garfield: Der einzigeWahrheitsgetreue un ausfuhrliche Bericht, verbunden mit der Lebensbeschreibung unseres Prasidenten, sowie die des Meuchelmorders Charles Guiteau. Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., Hrsg., 1881.

Ausenhaus, Peter. Journalism in National Crises: A Cultural History of the Garfield and McKinley Assassinations. A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota by Peter Ausenhaus in Partial Fufillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Arts. September 1992.

Badmen and Heroes. Ekektra, 1955.

Balch, William Ralston. The Life of James Abram Garfield, Late President of the United States. The Record of a Wonderful Career Which, Like That of Abraham Lincoln, By Native Energy and Untiring Industry, Led Its Hero from Obscurity to the Foremost Position in the American Nation. Together with a Full Account of His Election to the Presidency, Momentous Events of His Brief Administration, Assassination, Surgical Treatment, the Sympathy of the Nation, Removal to Elberon, Death, Autopsy, Funeral Obsequies, Interment, Etc., Etc., Etc. By William Ralston Balch, Managing Editor of The American. Published by Hubbard Bros., Philadelphia, PA.; Boston, Mass.; Chicago, Ill.; Cincinnati, O.; Atlanta, Ga.; Kansas City, Mo.: C.R. Blackall & Co., New York: World Publishing Company, Guelph, Canada: A.L. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco, Cal.: John Burns, St. Louis, Mo. Copyrighted, 1881.

Bancroft, William Dixon. McKinley—Garfield—Lincoln. Their Lives—Their Deeds—Their Deaths. With a Record of Notable Assassinations and A History of Anarchy. By William Dixon Bancroft. | Memorial Edition. | Magnificently Illustrated with Engravings from Original Photographs, Drawings, Paintings and Sketches. | Published by The United States Newspaper Syndicate. Chicago and New York. Copyright, 1901 by John R. Foster.

Beard, George Miller. “The Case of Guiteau: A Psychological Study.” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Vol. 9, no. 1 (January, 1882): 90-125.

________. The Case of Guiteau: A Psychological Study. [S.l.: s.n.,] 1882. (Reprinted from the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Vol.9, no. 1 (January, 1882): 90-125).

________. “Petition for a Stay of Proceedings in the Case of Guiteau,” Boston Medical and Surgical Journal Vol. CVI, No. 22 (June 1, 1882): 524-525.

________. The Psychology of the Salem Witchcraft Excitement of 1692, and Its Practical Application to Our Own Time. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1882.
Stratford, Conn.: J. E. Edwards, 1971. (Reprint of the 1882 ed. Limited to 500 copies.)

Beckham, Stephen D.; Cox, Patricia J. “Ballad of Charles Guiteau”: An Oregon Version, 1968. Northwest Folklore, Eugene, OR. vol. 3 no. 2, 1968, pp. 30‑31.

Beebe, Dick. The Guiteau Burlesque. 1984. [Program review by Evan Yionoulis]

Bell, Alexander Graham. Upon the Electrical Experiments to Determine the Location of the Bullet in the Body of the Late President Garfield; And Upon A Successful Form of Induction Balance For the Painless Detection of Metallic Masses in the Human Body. (A Paper Read before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, At the Montreal Meeting, August 1882.) With an Appendix. For Private Circulation. Washington, D.C.: Gibson Brothers, Printers, 1882. At head of title: With the Author’s Compliments.

Bell, Charles Milton. Group Photograph of the Jury in the Case of the United States vs. Charles J. Guiteau [reproduction]. ca. 1881.

________. Portrait Photograph of Charles Julius Guiteau. July 4, 1881.

________. Portrait Photograph of Charles Julius Guiteau. ca. 1881.

Biel, Steven. “Unknown and Unsung: Contested Meanings of the Titanic Disaster. In: Print Culture in a Diverse America. Edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Pp. 203-222.

Bigelow, J. G. Review of the Case of Sergeant John A. Mason, of Battery B, 2d U.S. Artillery, Convicted by General Court-Martial of an Assault with Intent to Kill Charles A. Guiteau, the Assassin.

“Biographical Sketch by Charles J. Guiteau.” Washington, D.C. Evening Star. [June 30,] 1882.

Blaine, James G. Blaine. Eulogy on James Abram Garfield. Delivered Before the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States. February 27, 1882. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882.

________. James A. Garfield. Memorial Address Pronounced in the Hall of Representatives, February 27, 1882, Before the Departments of the Government of the United States, By James G. Blaine, In Response to an Invitation from the Two Houses of Congress. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1882.

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Brand, Oscar. Program Nine: Bad Men Ballads. (Celebrate America. An American Folksong Archive; unit 9). Westport, CT: Westport Media, 1972. [My name is Charles Guiteau.]

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Buckham, T. R., A.M., M.D. Insanity Considered in Its Medico-Legal Relations. “Ordinari Res Ipsa, Negat, Contenta Dolceri.” Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883.

Buckley, J. M. “A Study of Guiteau.” New York Christian Advocate 57 (January 12, 1882): 17-18.

Bucknill, John Charles. “The Plea of Insanity in the Case of Charles Julius Guiteau.” American Journal of Insanity 39 (October 1882): 181-98.

Buffalo Courier. July 3, 1881.

Bunnell, C. B. Washington, D.C.: The Closing Act in the Tragedy of President Garfield’s Assassination : Guiteau’s Last Look from the Scaffold, the Moment Before Execution. [New York: Frank Leslie], 1882. (Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, July 8, 1882, p. 312‑313).

Bury Me Beneath the Willow: A Treasury of Southern Mountain Folksongs and Ballads. (Folk Music of the World). New York; Washington, 195-?

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Channing, Walter. “The Mental Status of Guiteau.” Boston Medical and Surgical Journal Vol. CVI, No. 13 (March 30,1882): 290-296.

________. The Mental Status of Guiteau, the Assassin of President Garfield. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1882. (Reprinted from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal of March 30, 1882).

Chs. Guiteau, le Meurtrier du President Garfield: Pendu le 30 Juin 1882, à Washington, E.U. [France: s.n.,] 1882, 1883.

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Clark, Thomas D. “My Name Is Charles Guiteau. The Trial of President Garfield’s assassin Produced One of the Nation’s Most Macabre Spectacles.” American Heritage n.s. v.2, no. 4, 14-17, 69.

Clark & Wood’s Funny Guiteau Songster: A Collection of Comic and Sentimental Songs as Sung by Fred H. Clark and W. Frank Wood. Peoria, Ill.: J. I. Lighthall, 1880-1889

Clarke, James W. American Assassins: The Darker Side of Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982, 198-213.

Clemmer, Mary. “A Woman’s Letter from Washington. The Assassination.” Independent 33 (July 21, 1881): 1-3.

Cohen, Patricia Cline. The Murder of Helen Jewett. The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

Coleman, Joe. Infernal Machine. London: Blast First, 1990.

Corkhill, George B. The United States vs. Charles J. Guiteau. Opening Statement by George B. Corkhill, United States District Attorney. November 17, 1881. Washington, 1881.

Coulter, John. Our Martyr Presidents Lincoln : Garfield : McKinley. Their Illustrious Lives, Public and Private, and Their Glorious Deeds, Biographies, Speeches and Stories. Together with Histories of Noted Assassins and Assassinations, and Anarchy and Anarchists in the United States and Europe. By John Coulter with an Introduction by Hon. Shelby M. Cullom Senior United States Senator from Illinois. Superbly Illustrated with Etchings and Half-tones from Original Photographs and Drawings by William Schmedtgen, Hugo Von Hofsten and Other Noted Artists. Published by The Memorial Publishing House. Copyright, 1901 by William D. Warren.

The Crime Avenged; Or, Guiteau on the Gallows … A Complete Secret History of the Career, Crime, Jail Life, Trial and Execution of Charles J. Guiteau for the Murder of President Garfield. New York: R. E. Fox, 1882. Sequel to Guiteau’s Crime and The Assassin’s Doom.

Crotty, William J. “Presidential Assassinations.” Society 9 (May 1972): 18-29.

Davidson, J. O. Incidents of the Trial of Charles Jules Guiteau. [New York: Harper], 1881. (Harper’s Weekly, Dec. 3, 1881, 805).

________. The Trial of Charles Jules Guiteau: A Scene in Court. [New York: Harper], 1881. (Harper’s Weekly, Dec. 3, 1881, 804).

Diagrams of Guiteau’s Head. According to the Government’s Medical Experts. [Washington, D.C.? 1882?]

Dickinson, Emily. Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson’s Poems. Selection and Introduction by Thomas H. Johnson. Boston, Toronto: Little Brown and Company, 1961.

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History, romance and philosophy of great American crimes and criminals …

By Frank Triplett

In the year 1875, late in the autumn, Guiteau, who was, as he expressed it, “all run down and run out,” determined to return to Chicago, purchase the “Inter-Ocean,” and turn his grand talents to newspaper editorship. He prepared a series of editorials for the paper, as he intended running it, and on the strength of these, approached Mr. Farwell and other Chicago capitalists to solicit them for a $200,000 subscription looking to the purchase of the paper for him. He told Mr. Farwell that with this paper he couhl easily make him President of the United States. Of course no one subscribed a cent toward the silly egotist’s scheme, and onco more he turned his attention to the legal profession.

He probably found the iaw a hard mistress, and its practice, in his peculiar manner, rather unprofitabe, for in the fall of 1876, we find him veering toward theology, and endeavoring to assist Moody and Sankey in their exciting revivals. So officious and obtrusive did he become, and so thoroughly did his self-seeking and shallowness show through all of his actions, that he was commanded to subside. Of all this he says nothing, but in telling the tale merely states that about this time he “began to get some conceptions about the second coming of Christ.” From his meditations on this subject he wrote out his book, which he called “The Truth,” in which he places the Second Advent at the destruction of Jerusalem, in the year 70 of our era.

Out of this farrago of nonsense he evolved a lecture entitled the “Second Coming of Christ at the Destruction of Jerusalem, A. D. 70.” This lecture was first delivered in Chicago, in one of the Methodist churches, in the month of January, 1877. The admission was fixed at “Twenty-five cents, free to all who cannot afford to pay twenty-five cents.” An audience of about twenty-five people assembled to hear the lecture, and the next day’s Tribune critisized it and the lecturer unmercifully. From Chicago he made a considerable lecturing tour throughout the West, making signal failures everywhere, and in 1880 we find him again in New York.

He had tried law, politics, religion; tried to try journalism and was about to give politics another trial. He says that from the 1st of July, 1880, until the 5th of March, 1881, he was around the headquarters of the Republican National Committee, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. On the 6th of August, 1881, he retouched and amended one of his Greeley speeches and had it printed as a Republican campaign document. Hecalledit “Garfield against Hancock,” and he sent a copy of it to every prominent Republican. As he met them afterward, he would introduce himself, and call their attention to this speech. In this way he made the acquaintance of Arthur, Logan, Conkling, Cameron and others.

This speech he delivered but a single time during the campaign, at a colored meeting. Even then he delivered but a portion of it, and then handed the speech to the reporters to print. When it was ascertained that Garfield was elected, Guiteau wrote him as follows:

“We have cleared them all out, just as I expected. Thank God!

Very respectfully,

Charles Guiteau.” He now concluded to claim the reward due his great services, and after some meditation, determined to apply for the Austrian Mission. So intense was his egotism that he never for a moment doubted that he would get it. He wrote letters to Garfield and Blaine calling their attention to his services during the campaign, and boldly asking for the Austrian Mission. He says he heard nothing about the Austrian Mission until he noticed in a paper that it had been given to Blaine’s particular friend, William Walter Phelps. He then turned his attention to the Paris Consulship, and in soliciting for this place he proved a terrible bore to both Garfield and Blaine. He forced himself one time into Garfield’s room and handed hima copy of the ever-present speech, “Garfield against Hancock,”

Charles Julius Guiteau

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