St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-09-25

your obligations TO deliver bonds TO
others but taking into account the
SlO0, 900 bonds you sold to Tom Scott,
and the amount of money you received /
on the eastern contracts, our relative +,
positions financially in the Little |
Rock & Fort Smith railroad bear a
wide contrast. Mr.. Caldwell is here,
but have not seen him; still | pre-
sumo lie has paid proper attention to
your letter addressed to him"
IL. The following letter, in reply to
Mr.. Blaine's letter of April l3, 1872,
already published, was written by Mr..
Fisher to Mr.. Blaine April l6, 1872
"YOur favor of the 18th inst.
reached me this morning. | am sur
prised at its contents. | have loaned
you at various times, when you were
comparatively poor. very large sums
of money, and never have yOu paid me
one dollar from your own pocket, eth
CT principal or interest. | have paid
sundry amounts to Others to whom
You were indebted, and these debts
YOU have allowed to stand unpaid like
the notes which hold. | have placed
you in positions whereby you have re-
ceived very large sums of money with
ont one dollar of expense to you, and
YOU ought not to forget the act on my
part. OF all the parties connected
with the Little Rock and Fort Smith
railroad, no one has been so fortunate
rs yourself in obtaining money out of
it. You obtained subscriptions from
your friends in Maine for the building
of the Little Rock and Fort Smith rail-
road Out of their subscriptions yon
obtained a large amount both of bonds
and money free of cost to you. | hav
your own figures, and knOY the
amount. Owing to your political po-
sition Won were able to work off all
your bonds at very high price, and
| the fact is well known to others as
well as myself. Would your friends i'll
Maine be satisfied if they knew the
facts Are my associates satisfied to
have Won obtain S25,000 for Northern
Pacific railroad, and you not make the
investment as per agreement The
course yOu have thought proper to
take in regard to my request Is rather
Il poor one taking your relation with
me, and again ask You to reconsider
it and grant it. You will find it much
easier to pay by obtaining the credit
to be the best. If you again decline,
shall be obliged to use the notes or sci
them to outside purchasers. Necessi
ty knows no law. Whatever ponds
still due to YOU will be delivered a
the road progresses. The other pOr
tons of your letter | make no reply
You know the facts; it is sutficien
that know them, aud it is useless t.
mention them Mt this time. Please an
Swer at once"
THE reply to this letter is MI
Blaine's letter of April Is, 1872, al
| ready published. The expression sob
tanning the credit" in the above lette
refers to IL request by Mr.. Fisher tina
Mr.. Blaine would give him II letter u
r credit, to be drawn against by Mr.
$ Fisher during a proposed European
= trip, Mr.. Blaine being at the time III
\ debted to Mr. Fisher for bOrrOwe
f money, for which Mr.. Fisher held MI
| Blaine's demand promissory notes.
t Is. The following letter, marke
= Confidential" was written by Nj
Blaine to Mr.. Fisher April l6, 1877
| from Washington "YOu can do me
= very great favor, and | know it wi
= give you pleasure to do so,-lust rs
5 would do for you under similar ell
$ cumstanceS. Certain persons and pa
+ pers are trying to throw mud ut me t
$ iniure my candidacy before the Gin
D cinnati convention, and you may oh
= serve they are trying it in connectio
e with the Little Rock and Fort Smit
matter. want yOu to send me n lei
. ter such as the enclosed draft. YO
fiji, f,, lMnnIn v
= evening, and it will be il favor | shal
never forget if you will at once writ
I me the letter and mail the same even
! ing. The letter is strictly true, is hon
Orable to you and to me, and will stOl
, the mouths of slanderers at once
Regard this letter as strictly cOntiden
+ tial. Do not show it to any one. Th
draft is in the hands of my clerk, VIII
= is as trustworthy as any man can be
: If you can't get the letter written i
a season for the nine o'clock mail t
: New York, please be sure to mail
during the night so that it will star
first mail Tuesday morning; but
possible, | pray you to get 1T i'll til
> nine o'clock mail Monday evening
Kind regards to Mrs. Fisher.
. Burn this letter..
Endorsed on the back.
e Not knowing your exact address,
f send this to the Parker house, i'll orde
e that it may mot be subjected to an
t danger in the hands of IL carrier"
= The following dispatch was receive
d by the Western Union Telegraph com
0 pany at Washington, at 9: Al, Apr
e Is, 1876 "To Warren Fisher, Com
It monwealth Hotel: Please go Parke
V house tomorrow, Monday evening; o
t arrival morning mail from New Gorl
V find letter. Answer by return mail.
j. G. BLAINE"
5 THE following is the enclosure II
d ferred to in the preceding letter.
II BosToN, April, 1876.
y Hon. Jas. G. Blaine, Washington, ID. {
= Dear Sir: | observe that certai
o newspapers are making or rather il
IL sinuating the absurd charge that 70
!. own OF had owned $I50,000 of Lift
II Rock and Fort Smith railroad bond
and that You had in some way Obtain
u ed them as Il gratuity. The enterpris
d of building the Little Rock and FO
Il Smith railroad was undertaken in I0t
by a company of Boston gentlemen,
IS whom | was myself one. The bono
N of the road were put upon the mark'
p in this city on what was deemed vel
% advantageous terms to the purchase
They were sold largely through III.
| self. You became the purchaser
i about $4,000 of the bonds on precisel
W the same terms that every other buy
-e received, paying for them in insta
e ments running over IA considerable Pr
y Rod, just as others did. The transa'
re ton was perfectly open, and there WI
TO no more secrecy III regard to it than
| You had been buying -four or suga
l. am sure you never owned bond
e. the road that you did not pay for