Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-09-04
FORD VS.. FORD
The Irish Worlds Excavations o
Blaine in December 1881.

Irish World, December 10, lSs1-Republished by
Request
Broken in health and threatened
with blindness, Mr.. Boynton has at
length been released. from Kilmain-
ham. He passes from the prison to
the hospital there, perhaps, to end his
life, the latest victim of British tyran-
ny There is no more shameful chap
ter in the history of our international
relations, than the one which records
how this Union soldier has been al.
lowed to pine away in the prison cell
week after week, without the govern
ment for which he risked his life in
terfering to secure for him even so
much as trial by jury. The Boyn--
ton case will ever remain a blot on
cur history.
The man who has been guilty of al
lowing this Union soldier to be i'm
prisoned without trial in foreign
county, on a vague suspicion, ought
to be driven from public life. In his
funkeyism to the English govern,
ment, James G. Blaine has refused to
protect American citizens whom he
was bound, by every principal of law,
to extend protection to. Such man
has no conception of what is due to the
honor of the United States, and should
never again be placed in a position
where he can disgrace our govern
ment.
We cannot write about this man
without feeling of evaporation at
the thought that funky has had it
in his power to insult the dignity of
American citizenship in the way it has
been insulted. But what could you
expect of one who has so little regard
for the properties of his position as to
speak of the "loyalty of American
citizens to Queen Victoria" as Mr..
Blaine did when welcoming the British
Minister to Washington? No wonder
Earl Granville, at the Lord Mayors
banquet, had the audac;ty to speak of
Americas "devoted loyalty to the
Queen Of England. Listen how the
London correspondent to the New
York 7rabune-the very prince Of
toadies-speaks of this incident:
"Lord Granville referred, with not
less fitness of language. to the deep
grief and sympathy of England in the
loss of President Garfield, and to the
American demonstrations of devoted
loyalty to the Queen. He used the
word loyalty with half apology, for.
getting, apparently that Mr.. Blaine
himself used it, last week, in welcom.
ing the British Minister, somewhat to
the surprise and much to the pleasure
of Englishmen."
Earl Granville had more regard for
the proprieties than our Anglo-Amer-
lean Secretary of State, for he seemed
to think that speaking of the "devoted
loyalty of Americans to Queen VIC
toria is not in good taste, something
that did not occur to the man who
disgraced the Office once honored by
Jefferson and Marcy, who, if in Blaine's
place, would have forced the English
Government to release Boynton within
twenty-four hours after he had been
arrested.
That this could be done is shown by
the time the English government Sc
lects to unbar Boynton's prison doors
On the eve of the assembling of the
Chicago Convention, and within four
days of the meeting of Congress,
Boynton is released. Blaine, as we'll
as the English government knew that
this country would not permit de-
fender of the Union to die in prison
to crafty the malice of landlordism.
Both think the easiest way out of the
difficulty is to set Mr.. Boynton free.
The time selected for his release con-
victs Mr.. Blame of dereliction of duty,
for it proves that he knew that Wig
orous demand for the release Of Mr.
Boynton, backed up, as it would have
been by Congress, would have un-
barred his prison DOORS But if he
made such demand how then could he
boast in the presence Of the British
minister of the ''devoted loyalty of the