Destiny of the Republic - Candice Millard [145]
Chapter 9: Casus Belli
1 “She is not well”: Garfield, Diary, May 3, 1881, 4:586.
2 “Crete”: Ibid., May 4, 1881, 4:587.
3 “My anxiety for her”: Ibid., May 8, 1881, 4:588.
4 Lucretia was the center: Shaw, Lucretia, 1–8.
5 “big, shy lad with a shock of unruly hair”: Typed paragraph, apparently written by Mary “Mollie” Garfield Brown, from the Western Reserve Historical Society archives.
6 “over and over upon the ground”: Peskin, Garfield, 349.
7 “never elated”: Quoted in Shaw, Lucretia, 2.
8 “generous and gushing affection”: Quoted in ibid., 31.
9 “The world”: Shaw, Crete and James, xii.
10 “Please pardon the liberty”: Ibid., 2.
11 “It is my desire”: Ibid., xii.
12 “I do not think I was born”: Quoted in Shaw, Lucretia, 2.
13 “For the past year”: Garfield, Diary, September 10, 1855, 4:271–72.
14 “Never before did I see”: Ibid., September 11, 1855, 4:272.
15 “I am not certain I feel”: Ibid., June 24, 1854, 4:251.
16 “There are hours when my heart”: Shaw, Crete and James, xii.
17 If their courtship was difficult: Ibid., ix, xiv.
18 “Before when you were away”: Ibid., 165–66.
19 “It seemed a little hard”: Ibid., 104.
20 “I believe after all”: Ibid., 210.
21 “gushing affection”: Ibid., 240.
22 “I here record”: Ibid., 242–43.
23 “You can never know”: Ibid., 374.
24 “Dear wife”: Quoted in Shaw, Lucretia, 84.
25 “It is almost painful”: Shaw, Crete and James, 233.
26 “life of my life”: Garfield, Diary, May 13, 1881, 4:590.
27 “the continent, the solid land”: Quoted in Peskin, Garfield, 347.
28 “to get her further from the river air”: Garfield, Diary, May 10, 1881, 4:589.
29 “I am sorry to say”: Harriet S. Blaine and Beale, Letters of Mrs. James G. Blaine, 202.
30 “I refused to see people”: Garfield, Diary, May 11, 1881, 4:590.
31 “I try to be cheerful”: Peskin, Garfield, 230.
32 Every day, Garfield consulted: Garfield, Diary, May 9, 1881, 4:589.
33 “fever powders”: Ibid., May 11, 1881, 4:589–90.
34 “If I thought her return”: Shaw, Lucretia, 101.
35 “In the majority of cases”: Crook, Through Five Administrations, 269.
36 “The President says it will be impossible”: United States v. Guiteau, 589.
37 “I will tell you how I do it”: Ibid., 633.
38 The technique had worked: Ibid., 221.
39 “Mr. Guiteau came into my office”: Ibid., 220.
40 “I lived”: Hayes and Hayes, A Complete History, 459.
41 Despite the constant humiliations: Ibid., 513–14.
42 “possessed of an evil spirit”: Ibid., 504.
43 “very proud and nice”: Ibid., 499.
44 After years of living as a traveling evangelist: “A Great Nation in Grief,” New York Times, July 3, 1881.
45 While everyone else was wearing: United States v. Guiteau, 446.
46 “somewhat haggard and weak”: Ibid., 222.
47 When Guiteau did have an opportunity: Hayes and Hayes, A Complete History, 38.
48 “Do you know who I am?”: Crook, Through Five Administrations, 267.
49 “elected the President”: United States v. Guiteau, 445–46.
50 “He did not strike me”: Ibid., 446.
51 “The first time that I see”: Ibid., 446–47.
52 “to have a consulship”: Ibid., 128–29.
53 “We have not got to that yet”: Ibid., 647.
54 So frequent were Guiteau’s visits: Ibid., 202.
55 “he had, in my opinion”: Ibid., 647, 117.
56 Before Lucretia had fallen ill: Hinsdale, Garfield-Hinsdale Letters, 489.
57 “perfidy without peril”: Shaw, Lucretia, 95.
58 Not only had Garfield not consulted: Peskin, Garfield, 470.
59 “treacherously betray[ed] a secret trust”: Connery, “Secret History of the Garfield-Conkling Tragedy,” 149.
60 “casus belli”: Garfield, Diary, March 27, 1881, 4:565.
61 “I owe something”: Hinsdale, Garfield-Hinsdale Letters, 490.
62 Of more than one hundred newspapers: Peskin, Garfield, 569.
63 “has recognized Republicans”: “What the Newspapers Say,” New York Times, May 6, 1881.
64 Just two years earlier: “Marriage Starts Bride Down Aisle to Misery,” Washington Times, July 13, 2002. Kate Sprague’s husband would eventually divorce her, leaving her not only publicly humiliated and a social pariah, but penniless. By the