The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-04
THE BLAINE-ARTHUR WAR.

into fever over the open and bitter war tina
has broken out between ex Secretary Blaine
and President Arthur. To the newspaper pres.
il drops IN opportunity and glorously to take
the place so long held in their columns by the
Guiteau trial. Orcourse, the war derives Ms
Importance from the fact that it threatens Il
array all the half.breeds and ieatherheads un
der the leadership Of Blaine against the stall
warts under Arthur thus splitting the great
republican party into two opposing and bll
lligercnt camps As this, in the cause of truth
and night, is war emincnty to be encOur
aged, the democrats are naturally gleeful and
stand ready to add fuel to the flame.
II all grows gu. of the diplomatic muddle
over Chilli and Peru, in regard to which
Blame had adopted bold and aggressive line
of policy, with, as he contends, the approval
of President Arthur, and the subsequent re-
versa, by direction of the same President, of
that line of policy, leaving Blaine in the awk-
ward attitude of having forwarded instructions
to our ENJOYS to Chilli and Peru as pursuant
to the order of the President, which the Presi-
dent had not seen and never had approved or
ordered to be sent In word between the
two there is big lie out and the great ques-
ton is, upon whom 1t is to be fastened.
The "cat is let out of the bag" by the publ.
cation of the substance of the correspondence
In regard to Chill and Peru lad before the
United States Senate week ago IN obedience
to resolution of that body. The correspond.
ence covers over two thousand manuscript
pages, but has been so indeSed and epltomlzed
that its substance can be given IN few ordln,
ary newspaper columns. 1t rchearses many
facts already known in regard to the
attitude of the L. S, government towards
Peru and and Chilli, and reveals others
touching the diplomacy of Mr.. Blaine in
that quarter that are not so we'll known
II is shown that, on the breaking out of
the war between Peru and Chill, Secretary
Evarts had refused to make any offer of medi
alton, unless asked for by the belligrents. Sec
rotary Blaine on succeeding Mr.. Evarts, was
content with 70 milk-and.water policy like
that According to his own statement, about
the time of his accession to the state depart
ment, a commissioner from Nicaragua came
to Washington with proposition look.
ing to an alliance Of the republics of Central
and South America, under the protection Of
the United States, bringing assurances that
the republics IN question were ripe for such a
movement. Mr.. Blaine, percieving that such
an arrangement would be of the highest polit.
zeal as we'll rs commercial importance TO the
United States, fell into the idea with great en-
thusiasm. He saw continent of republics
mutually helpful over the weaker states of
which the United States rs the strongest rep
resentative of the republican form of govern
ment, should extend sheltering wing. 1t was
glorious chance, in Mr.. Blaine's estimation,
TO create foreign policy which as he ex-
pressed it, would be policy of freedom, lib
erty and selfgovernment, to be protected
against the thief governments, as he called
those of Europe And he at once set himself
to work to consumate this scheme in which,
he maintains, he had not only the cordial ap-
prevail and sympathy Of President Garfield,
but after him of President Arthur. 1t was in
furtherance of this scheme he asserts that he
instructed Minister Huribut in Peru TO &c
knowledge the government Of Caderon, and
to intimate to the government OF Chilli that the
government of the United States would not
permit Chill to indemnify itself for war ex,
penses against Peru by the annexation OF Pc.
ruvlan territory; and 1t was also IN further
ance of this idea, after it was decided TO send
Mr.. Prescott to Peru to undo the laundering
of Hurlbut and Fitzpatrick, that he equipped
Mr.. Prescott with instructions, which Mr..
Blaine declares President Arthur had carefully
read and approve,., directing Mr.. Prescott. on
reaching Santiago, the capital OF Chill, to de-
mand, first, the restoration of Calderon to his
place at the head of the government of Peru,
from which Chill had deposed HIM and car
gied HIM of prisoner; secondly, to forbid
Chill to indemnify herself by seizing Peruvian
territory; and thirdly, having accomplished
these objects, to proceed homeward by way Of
Buneos Ayres and Rio dc Janierp, stopping On
the way to enlist the President of the Argen
tire Republic and the Emperor of Brazil in
his grand scheme of a confederacy of all the
American Republics
The hostile movement of President Arthur
against Blame consists IN the denial that he
had approved or even seen the Instructions
given to Mr.. Prescott, and his direction to
Secretary Frelinghuysen to change those in
structions by ordering Mr.. Prescott not to
bully the cabinet of Chilli, either in the matter
of the restoration of Calderon to power in Pc
ru or the annexation of Peruvian territory
and directing him, on the conclusion of his
mission TO Chill, to return at once TO the Uni.
ted States and to forego his proposed visit and
mission to Buenos Ayres and RIO de Janiero,
to impress upon the Argentine Republic
md tho Ernnnrnr of Brazil the aduanfares Of