Posted on 07/03/2019 9:56:05 AM PDT by Perseverando
One bullet grazed his elbow, but a second lodged in the back of President James Garfield, who was shot JULY 2, 1881, as he waited in a Washington, D.C., train station.
The assassin was Charles Guiteau, a free-love polygamist who had been a member the communist cult called the "Oneida Community."
President James Garfield had been in office only four months.
Though not wounded seriously, unsterile medical practices trying to remove the bullet resulted in an infection.
Alexander Graham Bell devised a magnetic metal detector device to locate the bullet, but the metal bed frame confused the instrument.
Two months before his 50th birthday, Garfield died on September 19, 1881.
The next day, Secretary of State James Blaine wrote to James Russell Lowell, the U.S. Minister in London:
"James A. Garfield, President of the United States, died ...
For nearly eighty days he suffered great pain, and during the entire period exhibited extraordinary patience, fortitude, and Christian resignation. Fifty millions of people stand as mourners by his bier."
Vice-President Chester Arthur assumed the Presidency and declared a National Day of Mourning, September 22, 1881:
"In His inscrutable wisdom it has pleased God to remove from us the illustrious head of the nation, James A. Garfield, late President of the United States ...
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Great pics at the source that makes reading our history much more interesting.
I didn't know that Garfield had been a preacher, lawyer, and a Major General in the U.S. Army during the Civil War and a U.S. Senator..
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We must be a bunch of useless, ignorant, immoral bums.
Bush League Republicans MUST become extinct before the Republic does.
Flimsey Grahamnesty needs to be Cantorized BEFORE he gets the amnesty he’s been working on since 2006.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”, John Adams.
Hey, show a little respect. That would be "Miss Lindsey" to you, my FRiend. LOL!
How about a video of the many mansions of each dem run city along with their slum streets and numbers of homeless, violent crime rates and numbers of years they have been dem controlled.
Contrast that with the cities run by conservatives.
Sounds like a John Bull to me!
“We must be a bunch of useless, ignorant, immoral bums.”
That’s just the majority. They exist because there are useful, intelligent, decent people to carry them.
Was that the NXIVM of the 1800s by any chance?
Probably one of the original founding members of the Pedogate club.
Guiteau was so obnoxious, even the "Oneida Community" booted him out.
Kinda like Bernie Sanders with his commune, then.
“But he got us Federal money to fix the potholes on Main Street. And to remodel the Senior Citizen Center...”
Right-America was founded and developed by Christian Europeans... if you want to understand this place... you need to know that
Bernie's people? Ripping off the Catholic Church, schools, etc.
“Garfield’s warning: “The people are responsible for the character of their Congress...””
Also noted is that he hates Monday’s.
Yes we as a people are.
We live in a country full of idiots. Being on Freerepublic it’s easy to believe everyone is as informed and has common sense like you do. But the sad fact is most people are uniformed dummies.
In a sane, just, intelligent country a party as evil and vile as the Democrat party shouldn’t even get 2% of the vote.
Even on the Republican side, we can’t even count on most members to pay attention and wake the *^(# up and throw some of these RINO bums out.
Bell’s “machine” was the first attempt at x rays.
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