shed with just
severity those capital offenders against peace and good order
who strike at the very foundation on which all government must
rest.

[1] It has been conclusively established since that he was armed
with his usual bowie-knife at the time.

[2] NOTE.--Whilst there was a general concurrence of opinion as to
the threats of Terry and of the fate he met at the hands of
Neagle and of the bearing of Justice Field through all the
proceedings, there were exceptions to this judgment. There
were persons who sympathized with Terry and his associates and
grieved at his fate, although he had openly avowed his
intention not merely to insult judicial officers for their
judicial conduct, but to kill them in case they resented the
insult offered. He married Sarah Althea Hill after the United
States Circuit Court had delivered its opinion, in open court,
announcing its decision that she had committed forgery,
perjury, and subornation of perjury, and was a woman of
abandoned character. And yet a writer in the _Overland
Monthly_ in October, 1889, attributes his assault upon the
marshal--striking him violently in the face for the execution
of the order of the court to remove her from the court-room
because of her gross imputation upon the judges--chiefly to
his chivalric spirit to protect his wife, and declares that
"the universal verdict" upon him "will be that he was
possessed of _sterling integrity of purpose_, and stood out
from the rest of his race as a strongly individualized
character, which has been well called an anachronism in our
civilization." And Governor Pennoyer, of Oregon, in his
message to the legislature of that State, pronounced the
officer appointed by the marshal under the direction of the
Attorney-General to protect Justices Field and Sawyer from
threatened violence and murder as a "_secret armed assassin_,"
who accompanied a Federal judge in California, and who shot
down in cold blood an unarmed citizen of that State.

CHAPTER XX.

THE APPEAL TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THE SECOND
TRIAL OF SARAH ALTHEA'S DIVORCE CASE.

With the discharge from arrest of the brave deputy marshal, Neagle,
who had stood between Justice Field and the would-be assassin's
assault, and the vindication by the Circuit Court of the right of the
general government to prot