. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . dings. Twoplain constructions of the case were possible:Either Guiteau was a sane man, in the ordi-•nary sense of that word, and had committedthe greatest and vilest of political assassina-tions; or else he was a lunatic, who, under theinfluence of an insane hallucination, had shotand killed the President. Plain common sense,prudence, patriotism, polit
. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . dings. Twoplain constructions of the case were possible:Either Guiteau was a sane man, in the ordi-•nary sense of that word, and had committedthe greatest and vilest of political assassina-tions; or else he was a lunatic, who, under theinfluence of an insane hallucination, had shotand killed the President. Plain common sense,prudence, patriotism, political sagacity, and theijhole array of facts regarding the prisoners character and conduct, pointed unmistakablyto his lunacy, and to the second constructiongiven above. But prejudice, anger, folly,short-sightedness, and the mere vengeful pas-sions which flamed up in the excitement of thehour, all backed and aggravated by the crim-inal wickedness of the American newspapers—ready, for the sake of mere sensationalism, toespouse any theory or promote any course inorder to keep the air white with their ownmiserable editions—conspired to establish thetheory of Guiteaus sanity, with the appallingconclusion that the President of the United. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. States had been politically assasnnated. Thistheory was urged and preached with insaneferocity until it prevailed. The voice of reasonwas drowned, and the opportunity to save theAmerican people from the indelible stain of po-litical assassination, was scorned and put was indicted and tried for the whole course of the trial, the as-semblage around the court-room in Washington was little less than a mob. The proceed-ings ended with a conviction, and a condem-nation to death. Then followed another sen-sational imprisonment, and on the 30th of 208 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. June, 1882, the wretch was taken from the jailto the place of execution and hanged. Chester A. Arthur, thus called to
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