Charles Guiteau: Presidential Assassin, Death of President Garfield, Chapter 6, Click2Biography

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>CHARLES GUITEAU</p> <p><font size="4"><b>CHAPTER 6 - DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Days before his 1880 <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/18/20/18-1909a.gif" target="_blank"><b>election</b></a>, James Garfield gave a speech in <a href="http://www.wrhs.org/lawnfield/tour.htm" target="_blank"><b>his home</b></a> state of Ohio. He <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/rbc/rbpe/rbpe13/rbpe138/1380160b/002q.gif" target="_blank"><b>urged</b></a> young men, anxious to demonstrate their independence, to vote for him - even if their fathers and grandfathers planned to do the same. <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/rbc/rbpe/rbpe13/rbpe138/1380160b/003q.gif" target="_blank"><b>Using</b></a> a phrase, which after his death seemed strangely ironic, the <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/7/13/07-1241a.gif" target="_blank"><b>former</b></a> Civil War Major General <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/rbc/rbpe/rbpe13/rbpe138/1380160b/004q.gif" target="_blank"><b>said</b></a>:</p> <blockquote><blockquote><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>Your life is full and buoyant with hope now, and when you pitch your tent, I beg you to pitch it among the living and not among the dead.</b></i></font></blockquote></blockquote> <p align="justify"><font face="arial, helvetica">People <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/rbc/rbpe/rbpe13/rbpe138/1380160b/001dq.gif" target="_blank"><b>remembered</b></a> those words after Garfield (who only months before had <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/02900/02921r.jpg" target="_blank"><b>watched</b></a> his inaugural <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/02900/02922r.jpg" target="_blank"><b>parade</b></a>) was himself “among the dead.” He had died “so soon,” it was said, but not in vain:</p> <center><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>Garfield, the Nation’s chosen chief,<br> Alas, now dead! How deep our grief!<br> Rising self-made to highest state;<br> Falling so soon, by cruel fate.<br> If but thy death may emphasize<br> Each noble plan thou didst devise, --<br> Let sad Columbia mourn thee slain, --<br> Dying, thou hast not died in vain.</b></i></font></center> <p align="justify"><font face="arial, helvetica">By the time those words were penned, Charles Guiteau had met his own fate.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="charles_guiteau_ch5.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="charles_guiteau_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER  </a>   <a href="charles_guiteau_ch7.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>