Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-10-30


organic trouble, but that the nervous
prostratien complicated with malarlai
effects is more severe than he had cal
culated from what he had read OF the
case. He has adopted careful line
of treatment, prescribing absolute rest,
even forbidding Mr.. Blaines 10ftt'R9
letter. He gives him no assurance that
he Will be able to take any part IN the
pending campaign.
This was on Thursday, and yet the
following letter, written two days later
shows that Mr.. Blaine knew better
what medicine he wanted than his
family physician. Here, too, the ital-
les are MIR. Blaine's own:
! [Private.l
| AUGUSTA; Saturday Eve'g, 1st July, '76.
Ny DEAR MR. FISHER; | write from my
| sick he'd. | want very much to see you
! am very sorry YOU did not come to Wash
/ incton when l requested. Can't you come
! 10 Augusta by train Monday? Express
/ train leaves Eastern Station at 9 O'Clock,
| reaching here at p. m. You can return
! same eveg.
there is a train that leaves at y or 1880
n noon. and gets here about P. NJ. You
| can return same night. Do come quickly.
Saw nothing to any one. But do come.
| Yours sincerely, j. G- ELAINE.
(See over)
Important to you cs acaH as myself that go"
come. VERY.
bnman being except your wife know you
are coming down. But do not fail to come
whatever you do do not fail.
You will regret it if you don't come.
Could anything be more abject in
its pleading than this? But it was not
the last Of this remarkable series OF
letters. On the following day he wrote
again as follows:
SUNDAY EVENING July q 1876.
MY DEAR Mr.. FIsEER: If you have
not started when this reaches you, pray
you iea7e for Augusta at once.
am very sick, but | know what am
. talking about, and it is largely for your sake
that [ desire to see you, and to see you at
once. Don't delay. 1t may be too late.
Don't refuse a sick man. ): u Is.
You can go back on return train. One
hour will do here. Come directly to my
2 house. Don't so to hotel.
:: Can any one read these letters, urg
| ing, beseeching and furtively threaten
e ing Mr.. Fisher, and not see into the
: very heart of Mr.. Blaine's disease
:, The investigation was only delayed by
L his sickness it was not abandoned
j He felt then that he could not wall
Il out from his sick room well man un
/ til the terror of Mulligan's and Fish
e er's knowledge against him was re
d moved.
: On Friday, June 80, Messrs. Fishe
and Mulligan were recalled by the In
e vestigating Committee and discharge
n until July 10, to which time the tul
l. ther investigation was postposed. L
L the mean time events were shapln
y which we're to take Mr.. Blaine out c
y the Jurisdiction of a committee Of th
n House OF Representatives. June u
Lot NJ Morrill, was appointed Secrets
TO ry of the Treasury, and on July q, b
it resigned as Senator and qualified. .
u July 10, DIR. Hill certified to Messr
n Hale and Frye: "Anything that tent
he to excite Mr.. Blaine's mind or
t. deeply interest is certain to serlousl
Id delay and may even prevent his r
IN covery. What he needs and must haI
r. is absolute rest from all care and an.
lis iety" And yet one exciting hour c
ne his knees to Fisher would have bee
IL worth all the rest and drugs in tt
)i- universe.
IN On July q, upon representations
1k Messrs. Hale and Frye, the Jucicial
IL Committee, after stormy session, pos
ne poned the further investigation Of t
On Union Pacific Railroads Little Roc
let bonds until the next session. July
Wo Mr.. BIaine's credentials were presel
l1- ed to the Senate, the matter was dro
1r. ped, and he became cOnvalescent. y
Iy the presence of immediate dang
was sufficient to keep him in sta
1ly OF malarial prostration.
'on s| Last August gentleman in Bost
icb i wrote to personal friend in Kentucl
of to obtain from j. Proctor Knott, t
). Chairman Of the House Judicia
the Committee Of 1876, some definite
Inc formation as to why the Investigate
me was never resumed. The inquiry p
ion voked the following characteristic
ate ter from Mr.. Knott, now Governor
tee Kentucky, the names being left bla
Ir. in compliance with the request of t
at writers:s
left FRANKFORT, Sept. 13, 1881
bic DEAR SIR; In reply to yours OF the
I INST 1nclOSln9, l6ttef from vi ii
lay 80, have to say that / never saw Mu
we'd gan's memorandum book, and have no
.sti- what has become of it, nor do know v
Ter the testimony in Blaine's Little Rock
cot Fort Smith investigation taken subseal
III to June 10 was never printed. You
nIii remember that the investigation was c
ttee Quoted by a subcommittee consisting
in Gen. Hunton, Judge Ashe and Mr. l.
di- renee. | had nothing to do with the
NOT pers. The investigation was postpo
soon after Mr.. Blaine was sunstruc!
Ute. Washington and Cincinnati until the I
une session, at the request of his friends I
fol- and Hale, upon the alleged grounds tha
her, desired to embark IN short time tor
6rst rope, and that in their judgement fur
prosecution of inquiry by the commi
S. would permanently unhinge his intel
EG. if it did not destroy his life. / thor
0 see there was about as much probability oi
Mt to coming to an untimely end from that C
n at as there was that he would die Of sunstr
,sire, 1 confidentially expected that the ms
stay would be resumed next session at
Why it was not do not know. I supp
o see that all the papers had been returnc
ek the fle-room. If: they cannot be fl
:. there it is possible that they may be II
E. possession of the yandal who chisellet
o+os figure off of his child's tombstone. | fe
-'es personal interest in the matter, and pal
'as further attention to it after l exposed
'ston villany with regard to the Caldwell
day, gram. am very truly yolr friend.
:.red j. PRocToR KNo,
and 1t is due to Messrs. Fisher and