The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-04-29
MR.. BLAINE AND HIS TRADUCERS.

The complete refutation by Mr.. Blaine
of the Infamous charges preferred against
him, is qualification not only to his per-
sonal and political friends, but to honora-
BILE and impartial men of all parties. While
his political prominence particularly sub
Iec.s him to the shafts of malice and defa-
nation at time when regulations are APP
parently SO insecure. yet no candid man can
but accept his statements as final, and as
utterly destructive of the falsehood hoped
to be raised upon the ruins of his personal
and political character. In this emergency,
as in all others in which his antagonists
have hoped to overwhelm him, he has de-
veloped greater and challenged worthier
admiration Of his ability and integrity.
Without hesitation or bubble, but with
logical and convincing directness, he has
taken up in detail the scandalous stories
circulated concerning him, and has forced
even from his political opponents the vol
untary Acknowledgements of his innocence.
1t had been charged upon Mr.. Blaine, that
he had received the large sum of 1874, 600
from the Union Pacific Railroad Company
for $4,000 of Arkansas Railroad bonds,
on what ground, whether of servive or con-
sideration, has never been stated. In refu-
tation of the charge, he produces letter
of recent date March 81, 1876 from Mr..
E. II. Rollins, Treasurer Of the Union
Pacific Railroad, in which he says that
"no money had been paid in any way or to
any person by the Company, in which you
were interested in any manner" In further
reply to the indirect charge that he had
received the money through the firm of
Morton, Bliss & Co., he produces two let
tiers from them to the effect that "nothing
has been paid by us in any form, or at any
time, to any person or corporation, in which
you were knopn, beliered, or supposed to
have any interest whatsoever"
Covering still wider phase of the charge
that the negotiation of the bonds has been
conducted through Mr.. Thomas A. Scott.
still another letter is produced by Mr..
Blaine from the latter gentleman to the
effect that call statements that Mr.. Blaine
ever had any transactions with me, directly
or indirectly, involving money or valuables
of any kind, are absolutely without founda-
ton in fact"
Having disproved fully and conclusively
the utter and unmitigated falsity of the
charges preferred, he explains fully aud
satisfactorily his business purchase of a
bond of the Little Rock & Fort Smith
Railroad, and shows further, that as a
member of Congress- he Was not debarred
the right of their purchase, since this rail
road was not in any manner or sense, d.
rectly or indirectly, dependent upon Con
gress for either aid or appropriations.
Thus completely disposing of the calum-
MES, in conclusion be uses this language
can hardly expect, Mr.. Speaker, that
any statement from me will stop the work
of those who have so ipduStriously circu.
lated these calumnies. For months past
the effort has been energetic and continu-
Gus to spread these stories in private Cir
cles. Emissaries of SANDER have visited
the editorial rooms Of leading Republican
papers from Boston to Omaha, and whis-
pered of revelations to come that were too
terrible even to be spoken in loud tones,
and at last the revelations have been made.
am now, Mr.. Speaker, in the fourteenth
year of not inactive service in this hall.
| have taken and have given blows; l have
no doubt said many things in the heat of
debate which l would now gladly recall: |
have no doubt given votes, which in fuller
light, l would gladly change; but | have
never done any thing in my public career
for which could be put to the fantest
blush in any presence, or for which l can
not answer to my constituents, my con-
science, and the Great Searcher of hearts.
Mr.. Blaine's speech was delivered from
written slips, and was listened to with
eager attention by every member and per-
son within the crowded hall. As he con-
cluded there was murmur of applause
from both sides of the hall, and one of a
group of prominent Democratic members
having temporary seats near the reporter,
exclaimed las he finished his asseveration
of innecence), 60 believe it, every word of
it," to which the others replied, "And so
do IL