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in Shaw, Crete and James, 376.
35 “I have witnessed the extraordinary”: “Nomination of John Sherman,” James A. Garfield Papers, Library of Congress; Hoar, Autobiography of Seventy Years, 393–95.
36 “And now, gentlemen of the Convention”: “Nomination of John Sherman,” James A. Garfield Papers, Library of Congress.
37 “I presume I feel very much as you feel”: Conkling, The Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling, 604.
38 The convention chairman: Hoar, Autobiography of Seventy Years, 395.
39 “The chair,” wrote one reporter: “The Evening Session,” New York Times, June 6, 1880.
40 “Never”: “Two Remarks of Garfield’s,” New York Times, July 10, 1881.
41 “General,” he said, “they are talking”: Peskin, Garfield, 472.
42 The balloting began at ten: “The Story of the Balloting,” New York Times, June 9, 1880.
43 Grant, as had been expected: “The Twenty-Eight Ballots,” New York Times, June 8, 1880.
44 “By high noon”: “The Excitement in this City,” New York Times, June 8, 1880.
45 “elbow [his] way through”: “Fight it Out!” Boston Globe, June 8, 1880.
46 On the thirty-fourth ballot: “The Story of the Balloting,” New York Times, June 9, 1880.
47 “Mr. President”: Hoar, Autobiography of Seventy Years, 397.
48 “No, no, gentlemen”: “Gen. Garfield’s Nomination,” New York Times, June 15, 1880.
49 “No candidate has a majority”: “The Story of the Balloting,” New York Times, June 9, 1880.
50 “If this convention nominates me”: Peskin, Garfield, 476.
51 “And then,” a reporter wrote with awe, “then the stampede came”: “The Story of the Balloting,” New York Times, June 9, 1880.
52 “Whenever the vote of Ohio”: Sherman, Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet, 775.
53 “Cast my vote for Sherman!”: Peskin, Garfield, 476.
54 “Shall the nomination”: “Roscoe Conkling, Political Boss,” New York Times, April 14, 1935.
55 “The delegates and others on the floor”: “The Story of the Balloting,” New York Times, June 9, 1880.
56 “Only once,” a reporter recalled, “did he express”: “The Story of the Balloting,” New York Times, June 9, 1880; “U.S.G.’s Waterloo,” Boston Globe, June 9, 1880.
57 “As Garfield entered the carriage”: “Gen. Garfield’s Nomination,” New York Times, June 15, 1880.
58 “grave and thoughtful expression”: Ibid.
59 When the carriage pulled: “The Story of the Balloting,” New York Times, June 8, 1880.
60 “pale as death”: “Gen. Garfield’s Wife Notified,” New York Times, June 13, 1880.
Chapter 4: God’s Minute Man
1 From an early age: United States v. Guiteau, 348, 354, 419.
2 “My mother was dead”: Ibid., p. 547
3 Charles’s own fanaticism grew: Carden, Oneida, xiii.
4 Like most of Noyes’s followers: Ibid., 43.
5 “unhealthy and pernicious”: Ibid., 49–54.
6 “up to the very moment”: Ibid., 49–50.
7 “You prayed God”: Guiteau to J. H. Noyes, no date, Library of the New York City Bar.
8 “I ask no one to respect me”: Guiteau to “Mr. Burt,” no date, Library of the New York City Bar.
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.