National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-31
MIR. BIaine,s Home Policy.

The Washington Post is well-known to
be the newspaper through which Mr..
Blaine makes his public utterances. 1t
is not his organ, because he is not re-
sponsible for its opinions. But he is un-
doubtedly responsible for every fact it
pretends to state in his interest and con-
cerning his affairs That paper makes
he following statement in its issue of
yesterday:
A gentleman who is entirely familiar with tho
Peru Chilian controversy, and who takes great in
terest in South American affairs, declares that
the instructions 10 Mr.. Trescot were made public
against the most earnest and repeated protests of
Mr.. Blaine; that the President had promised Mr.
Blaine the instructions should not be made
public, and that he afterward yielded to Mr..
Frelinghuysens demand for their publication;
that Mr.. Blaine told the President the premature
publication would lead TO the failure of the mis-
sion and that Troscots last request before leaving
was that no communication TO him or from him
should be given to the press until after his return
from South America Hence Mr.. TIescots COM
plant to Mr.. Frelinghuysen for violating the
understanding under which he set out upon his
mission. 1t is highly probable that the whole
subject will now be investigated by the House
Committee on Foreign Affairs
This is from an editorial headed "a
Studied Surrender" which, though short,
is at the head of the leading column,
and double-leaded, to give it especial sig
Difcance and importance. One cannot
refrain from wondering if Mr.. Blaine is
not himself the gentleman who is en-
tirely familiar with the Peru-Chilian
controversy" He has no friend who is
any more intimate with the editor of the
Post than he is himself, and we rather
think Mr.. lIutchins would not take any
important facts concerning him at second
hand.
Neither Mr.. Blaine nor any of his
friends will succeed in making anybody
believe the calumny against the President
contained in the above quotation. The
President has broken no promise to Mr..
Blaine concerning the instructions to Tres
cot. To charge the President with break
ing u promise and then assigning it as n
reason why Mr.. Trescot should complain
of Mr.. Frelinghuysen is worthy of Blaine
politics and Blaine diplomacy
Mr.. Blaine had crazy idea in his head
that foreign war would be popular. He
had great schemes of aggression, which
would early have ripened into wars with
Chill and Mexico, or the spoliaton of
both, if General Garfield had lived. He
seemed to be reckless of his countrys
good, and willing to appeal to the martial
feeling of the multitude if thereby he
could win applause for himself. He
would probably have struggled for the
succession to General Garfield, despite
the mortgage executed upon himself in
his letter accepting the State portfolio.
He was urging President Garfield on to
political self-destruction through the imp
ish agencies of some very small and very
vicious people, and would have been
ready to fill the vacancy thus created.
With President Arthur he was less sue
cessiul. He remained in the State De-
partment too long, but only until his
wonderful South American complications
commenced to come to light. He had
meanwhile secured the appointment of
Trescot, and armed him with instruc-
tions which could be read opposite ways :;
and then, when the President discovered
where he stood, and took measures to
carry out his own views instead of Mr..
Blaine's, the latter caused great outcry
TO be made, in which he led himself, and
sought TO make the overturning of his
own indirections cause for complaint
against the President.
The instructions to Mr.. Trescot are dis
ereditabe to Mr.. Blaine because based
on a situation not fairly made known to
The President, and Mr.. Trescots treat
ment of their subsequent notifications
has been little short of insubordination.
The conspiracy should now end. The
President and not Mr., Blaine, should con-
duct our interests in Chilli and Peru, and
Mr.. Trescot should make way for some
body who will not have to be quawelng
by wire with his own Government be-
cause ii will not obey his directions.
Meanwhile let the guaao Investigation 90
on, and let not Mr. Blaine attempt to
substitute for it noise about what harm
is to come Of the publication of his re-
markable instructions to Mr. Trescot and
Che latter's telegram TO Mr.. Freling-
huysen.
Mr. Trescot's dispatches would be more