The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-10-28

| al . clock. reaching here at4P M You can
return same evening
Or II YOU can't come by o'clock train there is
u train that leaves at 12 or 1890 noon, and gets
! here about y p NJ You can return same night
!; j'' roms quickly. Say nothing to any one But
d come Yours sincerely
J. g. BLAINE
(See OverD
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{ ,On other side of Sheet Don't let anv human
1"'n- eAc"pi Your wife know you are coming
!, ,rtwn. But ,io not iail to come--w hateVer YOU
4 tfh 10 not fail
& You VIII regret it if you don't come
4 Could anything be more abjecl in its
s'T|ra!ing than this: But it was not the
Hast OF this remarkable serie of letters.
Etn the following day he wrote again as
fellows:
d SUNDAY EVENING July ~ 1876.
l.. :MY DEAR Nix FISHER II YOU have not
i.si -'icl when lhis reaches you, pray Nou leave
5t1 AT-u-'a nl once.
/ | am very SICK but know what am talking
si''ul, ani Is tr9ely for your sake that desire
~ y, gen, and 10 YOU at once. Don't delay
+ II my be too aic. Don't refuse Il sick man.
j. c. B.
lou en- 90 back o.! return train One hour
1:ii d here. Come directly To my house
IbNlt So 10 hOttI
Can any one read these letters, urging,
hscechlng ani turtively threatening Mr..
r ~hcr, ami not see into the very heart Of
\ Mr. ilaine> disease: The investigation
; was only DELAYED by his sickness it was
Ino, abandoned. He felt then that he
could not walk out from his sick room a
1 W. il man until the terror of Muligan's
/: AMI Fishers knowledge against him was
xreinov
! On Friday, June 30, Mes,rs Fisher and
tMulllyan were recalled by the investigat-
Ainm committee and discharged until July
$40 to which time the further inyestiga-
f,ion was postponed In the meantime
i+vcni> were shaping which were to take
Mr Blaine out of the jurisdiction OF a
4,otnmittce OF the House of Representa-
si,c, June u Lot NJ Morrill, was APP
Aointed Secrctrry of the Treasury, and on
Vuly he resigned as Senator and quail
&ed On July 10 Dr. Hill certified to
Mussrs Hale and Frye: "Anything that
.leuds to excite Mr.. Blalne's mind or to
lecply interest is certain to seriously de-
IL, and may even prevent his recovery.
What he needs and must have is absolute
s,rst from all care and anxiety" And yet
,,nc exciting hour on his knees to Fisher
would have been worth all the rest and
drugs in the universe.
On July IL, upon representations of
Nes>r>. Hale and Frye, the Judiciary
committee, after a stormy session, post
:,3ned the further investigation of the
MON Pacific Railroads Little Rock
bonds until the next session. July Il
pr. Blaines credentials were presented
- the Senate, the matter was dropped,
end he became convalescent Only the
sresence of immediate danger was suffi-
aieut To keep him i'll a state of malarial
sfo>tratlon.
! Last August a gen: leman in Boston
4roto to a personal friend in Kentucky to
st4ain from j. Proctor Knott, the Chair
alai. OF the House judiciary Committee
Ndl sc, some definite information as to
Say the investigation was never re-
3med. The inquiry provoked the fol-
lSNing characteristic letter from Mr..
Rhutl, now Governor of Kentucky, the
l;anes being LETT blank in com pliance
Nitl the request OF the writers:
Il FkANKFoKT Sept 13. 1884
sDEAK SIR: Ia reply to yours of the Sd inst
9clo>in, letter from - -. of August 80,
lave Ia say that never saw Malligan's memo
r1ndu.n book, and have no idea what has be-
came os il, nor 10 know why the testimony in
r tinc's Ii Tie K Ok and Fort Smith iuvestisa-
I.,n tsktn subsequent to June 10 was never
I+iutcl. You will remember that the investiga-
t.,n n, conducted by a sub committee CONSIST
Jig ol General HunIon, Julge Ashe aud Mr
It,arence. | had nothing 10 do with the pa
ls'rs. The investigation was postponed
after Mr. III Inc was sunsruck in Washington
aAd Cincinnati until the next session, at the re-
qs.esl of his friends Frye and Hale upon the al
lsged ground that he desired to embark in short
tkne for Europe, and that in their judgment a
ttether prosecution of inquiry by the committee
woald permanently unhnge his intellect, if il did
NIT destroy his life.
IL thought there was about much probability
Ok l,is coming TO an untimely end from that cause
af there WAS that he would die of sunstroke. |
cfnh senuy expected that the matter would be
rI,umeI next session at least. Why it was not
l flo not know. | supposed that all the papers
Ia been returned 10 the file-room. If they can
Il be found there it is possible that they may be
il. the posses ."n of the vandal who chseled the
: II }ure off of his chds tombstone. felt no per-
s'flal interest in the matter, and paid further
attention to it after l exposed his villainy with
rezs.rd to the Caldwell telegram.
am very truly your friend,
j. PROCTOR KNOTT.