Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-07


charge against Ex-Speaker Blaine, were
to have had meeting this afternoon, but,
owing to,sDg Agements of Mr.. HUuton In
the house, the meeting was postponed
until tomorrow, when Ek Senator Rice
and Mr.. Howe, of Arkansas, will be ex-
amined relative to the affairs Of the Lit
tie Rock and Fort Smith railway com.
pany.
The following are among the most i'm.
poItant Of Blsine's letters to Fisher:
AUGUSTA, Me-. October /. 1871.
MY DEAR Mr.. FIsEER-I am doing
all in my power 20 expedite and hasten
the delivery - the stock. The delay b IS
oeen ooc Asioned by circumstances
WHO'LL Deyonds my control, but I shell
T9<ch 9 conclusion within few days,
! and make q formal delivery then. 1t
| will be an Immense relief to get it off
| nay hands I assure you. You must have
| strangely misunderstood Mr.. Caldwell in
regard to his paying these notes. Hs
has paid me only just six thousand del.
lars, leaving nineteen Thousand dollars
due, which am carrying here at eight
and eight and one.half per cent. inter-
est, aud which emb ARA 5ses me beyond
all imagination. / do not really know
which way to turn for relief. I am 80
pressed with the Little Rock and Fort
Smith matter, and II you and Caldwell
between you cannot pay me that nine
teen thousand dollars OF borrowed
money, I do not know what l shall do
politically. / am charged with being a
wealthy man, and personally and pecu-
niarily am laborinZ under most fear
full emOarrassments, aud the greatest OF
all these embarrassments is nineteen
thousand dollars which l handed over
under your orders, aud not one dollar Of
which have received. OF the twenty
five thousand dollars original debt,
Caldwell has paid six thousand dollsr5,
and six thousand dollars only. Can you
not give me soms hope of relief in this
matter? 1t is cruel beyond measure to
lesve me so exposed and so suffering
Yours truly, J. G BLAINE,
AUGUSTA, ME-, July 26, 1869.
MY DEAR Mr.. FIsRER-You ask me
il am satified with the offer you made
me of the share in your new railroad en-.
terprise. OF course | am more than sat-
isfied with the terms of the offer, and l
think 1t is most liberal proposition. II
/ hesitate at all, it is from considerations
no way connected with the character OF
the Offer. Your liberal mode of dealing
with me in all our business transactions
of the past eight years, has not passed
without my full appreciation. What
wrote you on the twenty seventh was
intended to bring Caldwell to a definite
proposition; that was all. go to Bos-
ton by the same train that carries this
letter, and will call at your Office to-mor-
row. II you don't happen to be ia, no
matter; doa'tput yourself to any trouble
about ii, Yours, Aea j. G. b!
AUGUSTA, NE. October 4, lS91.
MY DEAR MR.. FIsHER-YOu must
have strangely misunderstood CAld
Wells statement in regard to his paying
me all but twenty-five hundred dollars
of the borrowed money which / loaned
the company through him and you
last January. Caldwell paid me in June
thirty.five hundred dollars, and In July
twenty-five hundred dollars more, sc-
ceptiDg at the same time q draft for
twenty-five hundred dollars, July 10th,
ten days, which draft remains unpaid.
Ihave, therefore, received but ak thou.
sand dollars kftom Caldwell, leaving
nineteen thousand dollars beside Interest
due me to-day. For that nineteen thou
sand dollars am Individually held, and
considering all, think you and Cald-
well should regard 1t as an honorable
debt, and you should not allow me to
suffer for my money, which raised un-
der peculiar circumstances. And then
again, I have been used with positive
cruelty in regard to the bonds, and have
your positive written bond 10 deliver
me one hundred and twenty-five thou
sand dollars in land bonds and thirty
two thousand five hundred dollars in
irst.mortgage bonds. The money due
you on the contract was all paid nearly
q year and half ago. That Of the
whole amount of the bonds due
nae, 1 have received but fifGy
thousand dollars in Immigrants,
leaving seventy five hundred dol
sand five hundred dollars OF first-mort-
gage bonds still due. 1 know that you
are pressed aud in trouble, and don't
wish to be too exscting. Rather, wish
to be very liberal in settlement Now,
1 make this offer: Pay me the cash due
on borrowed money account-cau it
nineteen thousand dollars in round
numbers and forty thousand dollars in
land boDds-and ws will call 1t square.
Caldwell has repeatedly assured me that
l should be paid sll bonds due me under
contracts with you, and outside of that
twenty thousand dollars due me from
him now, voluntarily offer to make a
very large reduction if can have the
matter closed. am, without doubt, the
only person who has paid money for
bonds without receiving that, and l
think you viii agree with me that
have Jared pretty roughly. 1t would be
an immense immeasurable relief to me
if could receive the money in time to
psy off the indebtedness here within the
next six weeks, so that can go to
Washington this winter with the load
taken off OF my shoulders 1t was placed
therein in the fullest faith and conf.
dence that you and Caldwell would not
let me suffer, and / still cling to that
faith and confidence. You will much
Oblige me by showing this letter to
Caldwell. Ycurs, very truly,
JAMES g. BLAINE.
WASHINGTON, May II, 1870.
MY DEAR NIB. FIsHER-I think on
the whole that had better not insist on
the forty thousand dollars additional
bonds at the same rate. My engage
ment is not absolute, and l can break
out of it with honor. l would rather do
this than seem to be exacting or indeli-
cate. Besides, 1 have always felt that
Caldwell always manifested most gen.
EplltL EOhdtu cIu OtotACN
to treat me Handsomely In the end. Ga
the whole, therefore, shsll be better off
perhaps to let things remsin as they are,
bat l will follow your judgment 10 this
matter, II / can find what it is. Yours,
elo., g. BLAINE.
In letter dated Augusta, Msine, Au-
gust 81, 1852, marked "private and per-
sonsl," Blaine says to Fisher:
"No person could be more anxious for
a settlement than / am land II, upon our
next interview, We cannot reach one,
why, then, we must try othtr means,
but my judgmedt is that shall make
you SO liberal sn offer of settlement
that you cannot possibly refuse, as one
of the elements which wish to take
into account is the note OF ten Thousand
dollars given you in 1853 for Spencer
steck. / desire that you will furnish me
with items of interest on that note,
which you still hold; that you did not
charge me interest, possibly emitting
one or two years. will be obliged If
you will give me information on this
point, for intend to submit to you
full and explicit settlement, and, in