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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 White House, if not throughout the nation; and the Anti-Masons, which, as their name implied, opposed Freemasons, who they feared were trying to take over the country. Clancy, The Presidential Election of 1880, 157–66.

11 “Hancock the Superb”: “The Democratic Trojan Horse,” New York Times, July 31, 1880.

12 “rebel party”: Peskin, Garfield, 277.

13 In fact, Garfield had turned down the stock: The Transactions of the Credit Mobilier Company, and an Examination of that Portion of the Testimony Taken by the Committee of Investigation and Reported to the House of Representatives at the Last Session of the Forty-Second Congress which Relates to Mr. Garfield. Washington, 1873.

14 “There is nothing in my relation”: Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James A. Garfield, 530.

15 In the end, the effort to renew: Leech and Brown, The Garfield Orbit, 218.

16 “Individuals or companys”: Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James A. Garfield, 1039–41.

17 In New York, Garfield campaign clubs: New York Times, October 2, 1880; September 25, 1880; October 18, 1880.

18 “support Gen. Garfield for President”: New York Times, September 27, 1880.

19 In Washington, D.C., a former slave: New York Times, July 4, 1880.

20 “Now we’ll use a Freemen’s right”: Book of Election Songs, Song 21, microfilm at the Library of Congress, Garfield Papers.

21 “It could not have been larger”: New York Times, October 26, 1880.

22 “James A. Garfield must be our President”: Ibid.

23 “front porch talks”: Leech and Brown, The Garfield Orbit, 212.

24 “As the singers poured out”: Stanley-Brown, “My Friend Garfield.”

25 A few weeks later: Garfield, Diary, November 2, 1880, 4:480.

26 “coolest man in the room”: “At General Garfield’s Home,” New York Times, November 3, 1880.

27 “the news of 3 a.m.”: Garfield, Diary, November 3, 1880, 4:481.

28 “There is a tone of sadness”: Garfield, November 8, 1880, quoted in Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James A. Garfield, 1048.

Chapter 6: Hand and Soul

1 As Garfield tried to accept: Grosvenor and Wesson, Alexander Graham Bell, 111.

2 “I did not realize”: “Bell’s ‘Electric Toy,’ ” New York Times, January 2, 1905.

3 By the summer of 1877: Grosvenor and Wesson, Alexander Graham Bell, 88.

4 That same year, President Hayes: Gray, Reluctant Genius, 180–81.

5 “A Professor Bell explained”: Mackenzie, Alexander Graham Bell, 193.

6 “the voice already carries”: Quoted in Grosvenor and Wesson, Alexander Graham Bell, 86.

7 “Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me”: Quoted in Mackenzie, Alexander Graham Bell, 160.

8 After Morse developed: Casson, The History of the Telephone; Lubrano, The Telegraph, 140–41.

9 “It can speak, but it won’t!”: Quoted in MacKenzie, Alexander Graham Bell,