The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-27
JAMES G.. BLAINE.
What Another College President
Thinks of Him-Or. Magoun,
of Iowa College, Grin,
nell, Iowa. .

From the London Nonconformist and hide
pendent
l know Mr.. Blaine as the most eminent citizen
of my native State. For bis personal moral
worth and unquestlonably superior integrity, as
well as his marvellous abilsy and versatility, L
admire him. No more trustworthy statesman
is TO be found in American public life would
say the same of him as OF Gen. Garfield, who
knew HIM and trusted nm so thoroughly. or
the Old South Congregational Church of Angus
Ia, Me, he is an honOred member. as Garfield
was OF the Campbeliite" Baptist Church al
Washington Why should not English gentle
men and Christians be 1ust 10 the to
the ouhers II they arg really anxious that the
great Republican leaaer should be defeated, to
which We can make no objection or 70 the ex-
preston of il in proper ways, why do they strive
TO dash with bitterness the zeal OF his support
erS: II there Is anything IN the Monroe doc-
trine they do well to oppose or fear, the En-
gllsh journals referred 10 are only making 1t
more t. be dreaded by the course they take, so
far a il has any influence this side the water
Once before, during the Shareholders Rebel
lion, had oCcaSiou-to notice an abnormal SEN
sitiyencss your side as to the political faith
here referred to. At that time Lord BrouEham
was about TO make speech III the House of
Monroe doctrine He was, unfortunately, not
better acquainted with il than some living
English journalists seem to be. Asking friend
If there was any one II London VINO knew al l
about the Monroe doctrine, the American
Consul, Hon. Freeman H Morse formerly NJ
c. from Maine and friend OF IL. Blalne's
named. Bring him to me-, said the veteran
peer 1t was done, and the information OBJ
tanned was satisfactory that the Consul was
IN IIc House bN lOTu brOuGuaIu sptClal 1u-
yitatlon when the speech5was made May ad-
wise gentlemen who are now attempting a
scare, or a new International prejudice on this
subject. to look up the speech in the debates?
As to even the slightest peril of misunderstand-
ing between you and us, If the man we vote for
is chosen President. let remind you that
Mr.. Blalnes foreign policy was that of Garfield.
no more, no less; and the 'periF of the next
four years is just what il would have been
if the dead President had lived. Gar
field and Blaine are inseparable names! Do not
let this from current transformation, les
sen the good feeling so happy to find in
London ana Manchester in 1881. To put al,
emphasis on what / here most sincerely and
kindly urge, let me add the testimony of the
new Secretary OF the American Peace Society,
Rev f. b. Howard, brother of our Christian hero,
Gen. 0. o. Howard now III the Soudanl, ana
formerly an editor OF the IdUdnce 1both of
whom ] hope YOU will soon see). Secretary
Howard visited Mr.. Blaine the Saturday before
the late session of the General Congregational
Association of Massachusetts, and said to that
body that Mr.. Blaine expressed himself
strongly against any course by our Government
that might tend to provoke a needless foreign
war. am old enough TO remember how the
Monroe doctrine, which Mr.. Blaine holds
other statesmen and Presidents have held 1t.
has kept Us from hurtful foreign complications.
There is no need of any new panic about it. 1t
Will not be bit weakened on this side the sea
by such panic. or by any personal abuse Of
Mr.. Blaine, or injustice to him in these coming
months by English writer's.
pray you, good English friends, listen to one
Who has never mis1ed yoN - ,,sy.IlJy years
varied correspondence in these columns as to
Hublit oIilllOii, anu Quietly bl-CbUL-
ssnauce such an evil. Testimony, tor which
there Is no place in this letter has been given
by two of Mr.. Blaine's Augusta pastors 10 his
great worth church member and friend.
One Of them is Rev. DIR. Webb now of Boston,
and the oldest orthodox pastor think, in that
city. If DR.. Nilou and Mr.. Simon had given
similar testimony As TO some English states
man. parishioner OF theirs, or Dr. Dale and
Mr.. Clarkson had done so in respect to Mr.
Chamberlain, we should be slow, very slow. to
apply to him such epithets a "Jingo. who has
dabbled IN dirty water, "a politician without
character. l assure YOU that all DIR. Webb and
Mr.. Ecob say in honor OF this grand man, who
Is up for the Chief Magistracy of 100000 peo-
pie, Is true Years ago in the lower house of
Congress, IN refuting an atrOcious slander most
trumphantly, Mr.. Blaine said: Il am now, Mr..
Speaker, n the fourteenth year of a not inactive
service ia this hall; | have taken and | have
given blows; i have no doubt said many things
in the heat of debate which l would now gladly
recall; have doubt given votes which in
fuller light would gladly shange; but | have
never done anything in my public career for
which l could be put to the faintest blush in any
presence, or for which cannot answer to NV
constituents, my conscience, and the Great
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