St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13
MIR. BLAINE,s BOOK.
J,sdoe Blacks Son C,-iticisiug the Aut7acs's
Conclusions.

Jte6Ue Blacks Son C1'actctS1fD tIte dUDtCTo
Conclusions.
In speaking to reporter OF the recently
published extracts from Mr.. Blaine's forth
coming book, Lieut.. Gov. Black, OF Pen
nsylvania, son of the late Judge Black, says:
ssWhen Mr.. Blaine processes to state histor-
zeal facts and Judge Blacks relation to them
he does so with reasonable accuracy. When
he draws differences he draws them after
his own kind, and is one of these gratultous
differences, derived from no premise except
that Judge Black had always been an honest
democrat, he does him grevious injustice,
unintentionally, of course. While ne con-
ceded that in the removal of Anderson from
Moultrie to Sumter Judge Blacks influence
was powerfully asserted for the most v1gor-
GUS measures against the SECESSION move
ment, he makes the impres sion that at an
earlier period his attitude, like that OF many
others. was different. This is mistake
which Mr.. Blaine had no right to make IN
work supposed to have been written Win Inc
deliberation of history, when the evidences
of the truth were so abundant and so acces-
sible
s'The difference between Judge Black and
the president, which came to head when lsle
answer to the South Carolina commissioners
was under consideration, had existed all
along in one degree or another, and, though
they were differences not about enos. puU
| about methods, they appear to have Deen
chronic. Judge Black was constantly urg-
| ing the reinforcement of Anderson. lie
procured the order which enabled Anderson
| to move, while Mr. Buchanan did not even
remember its terms, and his first promp-
tines were to command him to return They
were notin harmony on the message OF Dec.
| 3. Gen Cass was much more nearly IN ac-
cord with the president than was Judge Black,
and no sooner had he offered his resignation
| than he tried TO recall it. Mi. Jefferson
Davis, you may have observed, mas not
shared Mr.. Blaine's error on this subject he
knew better and only last year emptied all
the walls of his wrath upon Judge Blacks
head for his 'belligerent attitude toward the
secessonists.
ssMr. Blaine alluded originally to the at
torney generals opinion of Nov, 20, and in
Inmates that it propounded heresies OF which
crept into the presidents message of Dec. 3.
This is another mistake. That opinion is,
in a legal sense. above his criticism. No.
lawyer in either party has ever ventured in
that direction. Its perfect soundness,' said
Judge Black, in one of his letters to the late
Henry Wilson, has never been questioned
by any man with sense enough to know his
right hand from his left Mr.. Blaine has
that much sense. He has been credited with
more. 1t is for that reason he prudently adj
mits to state his objection to the document,
and predict that the omission will never be
supplied. refer you to the admirable analy-
sis and conclusive vindication of the paper,
beginning at page 1926 of Mr.. Curtis Life OF
James Buchanan 1t is pity, however,
that the plans of both Mr.. Curtis and Mr.
Blaine's books precluded the publication OF
Judge Blacks Memorandum for the Presi-
dent touching the answer to the South
Carolina commissioners, which shows the
practical position of Messrs Black, Stanton,
and Holt, and leaves no room for dispute
concerning their views of the powers and
the duties of the government at the time"