The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-08-28
FORD VS.. FORD.
The Irish Worlds Excoriaaiol
of Blaine i'm December, lSSl.
From the Irish world, Dec, 10, 1881

From the Irish World, Dec, 10, 1881.
Broken in health and threatened
with blindness, Mr.. Boynton has at
length been released from Kilmain-
ham. He passes from the prison 10
the hospital there, perhaps, to end his
life, the latest victim OF British ty-
ranny. There is no more shameful
chapter in history flour 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
terfereing to secure for him even so
much as a trial by jury. The Boynton
case will ever remain a blot OH our
history.
The man who has been guilty of al
lowing this Union soldier to be i'm
prisoned without a trial in a foreign
country, on q vague suspicion, ought
to be driven from public life. In his
1unkeyism to the English govern
ment, James &. Blaine has refused to
protect American citizens whom he
is bound, by every principle of law,
to extend protection to. Such q man
has no conception of what is due TO
the honor of the United States, and
should never again be placed in 4
position where he can disgrace our
government.
We cannot write about this man
without q feeling of evaporation at
the thought that a fiunky has had it
in his power to insult the dignity OF
American citizenship in the way it has
been insulted. But whaa could you
expect of one who has so little regard
for the prophecies ofhis 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 audacity to
speak of Americas "devoted loyalty
to the Queen of England. Listen how
the London correspondent to the New
York TRIBUNE-the very prince OF
toadies--speaks of this incidents:
"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. lie used the
word loyalty with a halfapology, 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 prophecies than our Anglo-Amer-
lean Secretary of State, for he seems
to think that speaking o:the devoted
loyalty Of Americans to Queen Vic
toria is not in good taste, something
that did not occur to the nan who dis
graced the Office once honored bv
Jefferson and Marcy, who, if in
Blaine's place, would have forced the
English Government 10 release Boyn-
ton within twenty-four hours after he
had been arrested.
That this could be done is shown by
who the English government selects to
unbar Boynton's prison doors. On
the V of the assembling of the Chi
cago Convention, and within four
days ofthe meeting of Congress, Boyn-
ton is released. Blaine, as well as The
English government, knew that this
country would not permit n defender
of the Union to die in prison to graft
fly the malice of landlordism. Both
think the easiest way out of the diff
Guilty is to set Mr.. Boynton free. The
time selected for his release convicts
Mi. Blaine of d%ereliction of duty, for
it proves that lie knew that a vigor-
Gus 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
niatIe such demand how then could lie
Toast in the presence of the British