St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-09
The Rabies of Incon sistency.

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Irish World. 1t closely initiates the New
York Sun in its unblushing inconsistencies,
and probably for like reasons. The Irish
World Of December 10, 1881, denounced
James G. Blaine for ''his flunkeyism to the
English government, and is q man
having "no conception of what is
due to the honor of the United
States" and declared that Che should
never again be placed in position where he
can disgrace our government" and gave
facts to justify its righteous condemnation of
the dishonesty, the unpatriotic, time-serving
spirit and ''huukeyism of James B. Blaine"
The following is the blistering arraignment
OF James G. Blaine, by the Irish World in
1881:
Broken in health and threatened with
blindness, Mr.. Boyton has at last been re-
leased from kilmainham. He passes from
the prison to the hospital, there, perhaps to
end his life, the latest victim of British tyr
amy. There is no more shameful chapter
In the history of our international relations,
than the one which records how this union
soldier has been allowed to pine away in his
prison cell, week after week, without the
government for which he risked his life in
terfering to secure for him even so much
as a trial by jury. The Boyton case will ever
remain u blot on our history.
The man who has been guilty of allowing
this Union soldier to be imprisoned without
trial, in foreign country, on Il vague suspi-
cion, ought to be driven from public life.
In his flunkeyism to the English govern
ment, James G. Blaine has refused to pro-
tect American citizens whom he was bound
Inv rNrin irla nF 1auy tO avta
ton to. Such a man has no conception of
what is due the honor of the United States,
and should never again be placed in posi-
ton where he can disgrace our government.
We cannot write about this man without
experiencing a feeling of evaporation at
the thought that turnkey 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 proprieties of his DO
sition SO as to speak of the ''loyalty of
American citizens to Queen Vietoria,'' 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 of the New
York Iiin,e-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 Presi-
dent Garfield, and to the American demon
STATIONS of devoted loyalty to the Queen.
He used the word loyalty with half apology,
forgetting, apparently, that Mr.. Blaine him
self used it, last week, in welcoming the
British minister, somewhat to the surprise,
n Of nmlis oh
Earl Granville had more regard for the
proprieties than our Anglo-American Secre-
tary of State, for he seemed to think that
speaking of the devoted loyaltv'' of Ameri-
cans to Queen Victoria 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 govern
ment to release Boyton within twenty-four
hours after he had been arrested.
That this could be done is shown by the
time the English government selects to I'M
bar Boyton's prison doors. On the eve of
the assembling of the Chicago convention,
and within four days of the meeting of
congress, Boyton is released. Blaine, as
well as the English government, knew that
this country would not permit a defender
of the Union to die in prison to crafty the
malice of landlordism. Both think the cas-
lest way out of the difficulty is to set Mr..
Boyton free. The time selected for his re-
lease convicts Mr.. Blaine of dereliction of
duty, for it proves that he knew that a Wig
orous demand for the release of Mr.. BoytOn,
backed up, as it would have been, by con-
gress, would have unbarred his prison doors.
But if he made such demand, how then could
he boast in the presence of the British minis
far of thn Tod Love Of A
to Queen Victorian
There is, however, another American cit
izen, Mr.. D. McSweeney, lying in Dundalk
Jail, who has been arrested as suspect and
thrown into prison without being accorded
trial by jury. No funkeyism of James G.
Blaine must stand between Mr.. McSweeney
and his immediate release. Congress has
positive duty to perform in this case, and the
country looks to it to perform it without any
loss of time.
While cOngratulating Mr. Boynton on his
release, we feel under the obligation of
thanking him for the noble heroism he dis
played during the long months of his illegal
imprisonment. The same courage he dis
played on the battle field in defending the
flag of the Union accompanied him into the
prison cell, and though at any time he might
have obtained his liberty by accepting the
governments terms, rather than do so he
preferred facing death, and what was, per-
haps, harder to endure than death itself
total blindness. Compare the heroism of
this man with the flunkeyism of James G.
Blaine, assuring the British minister of the
loyalty of Americans to the En- glish queen,
and then say which has best upheld the honor
of the United States.
Mr.. Blaine has not changed, but the Irish
World has. Can the reader fail to note
without amazement, in the light of the fore
going just condemnation of Mr.. Blaine in
1881, the Worlds high eulogies and enthusi-
astic and intensely partisan support for pres
ident in 1884, of the same James G. Blaine,
about whom it could not write three short
years ago without experiencing feeling of
exasperationl"
But the ''Plumed Knight is 'no dead
head'' in thic campaign, and he has ''chan-
nels of influence which no man knows how
work better than he.