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9 “God’s minute man”: Guiteau to George Campbell, June 21, 1865, Library of the New York City Bar.
10 “in the employ of Jesus Christ”: Guiteau to “The Community,” no date, Library of the New York City Bar.
11 “Chas. J. Guiteau of England”: Clark, The Murder of James A. Garfield, 4–5.
12 “the Community women”: Noyes, “Guiteau v. Oneida Community,” 3.
13 In fact, so thorough: Rosenberg, The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau, 19.
14 “practically a Shaker”: United States v. Guiteau, 549.
15 “egotism and conceit”: Ibid., 297; Rosenberg, The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau, 19–20.
16 “destined to accomplish”: Guiteau v. Oneida Community, 3.
17 “God and my own conscience”: Guiteau to “The Community,” no date.
18 “warm friend of the Bible”: Guiteau to “The Community,” April 10, 1865.
19 “labored there for weeks and months”: United States v. Guiteau, 297.
20 “lost [his] eternal salvation”: Ibid., 556.
21 “asked him three questions”: Ibid., 299.
22 “The style and plea of his conduct”: Beard, “The Case of Guiteau—A Psychological Study,” 32.
23 “talked about theology”: United States v. Guiteau, 392.
24 Much more than the work itself: Clark, The Murder of James A. Garfield, 12–13.
25 “I asked Mr. John H. Adams”: United States v. Guiteau, 560.
26 “have been in the habit”: Ibid., 566.
27 “failure all the way through”: Ibid., 567.
28 After arriving in a town: Ibid., 573.
29 On most nights: Rosenberg, The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau, 33.
30 “You may say that this is dead beating”: United States v. Guiteau, 570.
31 “I had no trouble”: Ibid., 569.
32 “you can arrest a man for a board-bill”: Ibid., 568.
33 “I was never so much tortured”: Ibid., 558–59.
34 “If Mr. Scoville would let me”: Guiteau to Frances Scoville, December 11, 1864.
35 Much larger sums of money: United States v. Guiteau, 562; Rosenberg, The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau, 30.
36 Searching for another target: “Scoville, Guiteau and Oneida Community,” 4, Library of the New York City Bar; Rosenberg, The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau, 24.
37 “moody [and] self-conceited”: United States v. Guiteau, 1048–49.
38 “If you intend to pay”: Guiteau to John Humphrey Noyes, February 19, 1868.
39 “I infer from your silence”: Guiteau to John Humphrey Noyes, March 2, 1868. Hostility against the Oneida Community grew until Noyes and his followers stopped their practice of complex marriage in 1879. A few years later, Noyes and a small group moved to Canada, where Noyes died in 1886.
40 “I have no ill will toward him”: Rosenberg, The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau, 26, 30, 31.
41 “cut up a little wood for us”: United States v. Guiteau, 469.
42 “explosions of emotional feeling”: Ibid., 352.
43 “I had no doubt then”: Ibid., 476–77.
44 For the next five years: Ibid., 583.
45 Believing, as did most of the country: Ibid., 584.
46 “I remember distinctly”: Hayes and Hayes, A Complete History of the Life and Trial of Charles Julius Guiteau, Assassin of President Garfield (hereafter, A Complete History), 452.
Chapter 5: Bleak Mountain
1 The house, which the reporters: Garfield, Diary, August 22, 1880, 4:445.
2 “regular town”: Balch, Life of President Garfield, 314–15.
3 For the past three years: Garfield, Diary, 4:85, 88, 410.
4 To the house itself: National Park Service, “James A. Garfield National Historic Site,” www.nps.gov/jaga/index.htm.
5 “You can go nowhere”: Leech and Brown, The Garfield Orbit, 183.
6 “I long for time”: Garfield, Diary, September 24, 1879, 4:298–99.
7 “take the stump”: Peskin, Garfield, 482.
8 Happily left to his own devices: Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James A. Garfield, 921.
9 “Result 475 bushels”: Garfield, Diary, July 31, 1880, 4:432.
10 While Garfield worried: Three independent parties had presidential candidates that year: the Greenback-Labor Party, which, as well as supporting the continuation of paper money, argued fiercely for workers’ rights; the Prohibitionists, who wanted a president who would follow in the footsteps of Hayes and ban alcohol in the