The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1884-08-21
Sunset Cox on Bialne's Amer
icanfsm.


Samuel S. Cox to Mayor Taylor, Of
Newark, will be of especial interest
to those who have given attention
to the effort 20 put forward the Re-
PUBLICAN candidate for Presidency
as the champion of Irishmen:
New YORK CITY, 13 E. TH1R- !
TENTH ST.. August 9, 1884.
DEAR Mr.. TAYLOR: On arriving
home, yours of the 4th inst. await
ed me. l have not the time just
now fully to 60 on into the records
showing the utter falsity of the
statements as to Mr.. Blaine's care
for the Irish, in or out of British
bastiles. l have been known for
Ten or fifteen years as an active and
leading member, who has brought
the cases of the Suspect" and
OF ers before the Department of
the State and the Congress. l have
never heard a word of Mr. Blaine's
sympathy or been conscious of any
thing from him as an aid. Nor
has any other Republican of prom
inence helped in these matters
except Mr.. Orth, of Indiana, now
dead, and Judge Stanley Matthews.
When senator, the latter aided
Judge Thurman to pass my House
resolutions, on the last day of the
Forty seventh Co ngress, for the
release of O'Conden. l had before
then even made a trip to London
to help those in prison. The me-
mortal contest of 1882 In Congress
was brought up by my resolution
As modified it finally passed. 1t re-
ferred to the O'Connor and other
cases. He was a Baltimore man
and an American citizen. 1t was
case of the arbitrary arrest of a
suspect" The man was held with
out due warrant, and denied any
trial. Mr.. Blaine was Secretary of
State. Did he aid in the enlarge
ment or forward or demand the tri.
al of O'Connor? No. He wrote to
the brother in Baltimore "that it
was an elementary principle of pub
lie law-that in such case the
Government Of Great Britain on
the exercise OF its various functions;
judicial and Observation-Disclosures
and interprets the law in ques-
ton"
This was said in response to
law of Parliament, called the eco
ercion act" 1t suspended habeas cor
pus. 1t enables an irresponsible
officer to pick up our citizens, jail
them and try them just when and
how they pleased, however remote
the time or distant the place; or not
try them at all, at their royaI.pleas-
ure.
1t was simply Infamous. 1t was
a black blot<on civilization-an in
suit to the English as well as our
constituents. We Democrats of the
Marcy school denied this absolute
and aoverelgn right --as Mr.. Blaine
called 1t, whether applied to "a
citizen or resident alien'-we de
sired 1t, and Mr.. Freli nghuysen,
when he succeeded Mr.. Blaine in
the Foreign and Home Affairs De-
partment, reiterated our denial.
Let this be. said to his credit.
But the story of Irish wrong and
Republican indifference is a long
one. 1t requires much research to
bring it out. Before long it will
be done.
The temporary ardor of a few
pre- fervid Irishmen n in behalf of
Mr. Blaine, becau-e he will bring a
slap dash rattle-te- bang insane Wig
or into our foreign policy. is not
borne out by good sense or inter
national comfy, or by a just love OF
either the "old sod" or the new
soil.
After all the calm, earnest, firm
and intelligent defiance of foreign
dictation which Marcy and Cass
and the Democracy have illu strated
in our past diplomatic and polite
al history, gives the best assurance |
that the flag will cover the citizen
wherever he travels, and that
whether an adopted or native born
the right of trial-speedy
and t,tir-cannot be abridged by
coercion or other tyrannous acts of
Parliament. The afternoon of the
century, under Dem
rule. will not derogate from
he splendid thought and heroic
attitude of 1776 and its great dec
aration. / write these views hur-
'iedIy. They may be too crude for
publication. bu! to my old Irish
friends in Central Ohio, and whose
children are now ready to voc. 4
them as true views of
iuty based Oh honest experience.
Respectfully,
S. S. Cox.
Waldo Taylor, Mayor of NeN
lrk, ..