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05-28-2019, 08:42 PM
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RE: James Garfield Tomb
It is a bizarre case. At his trial, Garfield's assassin, Charles Guiteau, claimed: “I did not kill the President. The doctors did that. I merely shot him.” At his hanging on June 30, 1882, when asked if he had any last words, Guiteau read a poem (by some accounts sang):
I am going to the Lordy, I am so glad, I am going to the Lordy, Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah! I am going to the Lordy. I love the Lordy with all my soul, Glory hallelujah! And that is the reason I am going to the Lord, Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah! I am going to the Lord. I saved my party and my land, Glory hallelujah! But they have murdered me for it, And that is the reason I am going to the Lordy, Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah! I am going to the Lordy! I wonder what I will do when I get to the Lordy, I guess that I will weep no more When I get to the Lordy! Glory hallelujah! I wonder what I will see when I get to the Lordy, I expect to see most glorious things, Beyond all earthly conception When I am with the Lordy! Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah! I am with the Lord. |
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