St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-20
Again "SIy Dear Fisher"
Especial Telegram to the Globe.

New YORK, Oct 19.-Warren Fisher has
given to the public some more very interest
ing and important letters from Blaine to him
in 1876, when the Plumed Knight was so
fortunately ''sunstIuck' during the congres
sional investigation into his Little Rock
deals. They are as follows;
Private.
AUGUSTA, Saturday evening, July 1, 1876
My Dear Mr.. Fisher: 1 write from my
sick bed. want very much to
see you. / am very sorry you did uot come to
Washington when l requested. Can't you come
to Augusta by train Monday? Express train
leaves eastern station at o'clock, reaching here
at p. IN. You can return same evening. or if
you can't come by 9 O'Clock train, there is q
train that leaves at II or 2:30 noon and get here
about p. IN. You can return the night.
DO come quickly. Say nothing to anyone. But
do come. Yours sincerly, JAMES G. BLAINE.
(See oyer.) Important to you as well as myself
that you come,
ron the other side:
Don't let any human being except your wife
know You are coming down, but do not fail TO
come. Whatever you do, do not fail You will
regret it if you don't come.
On the following day Blaine wrote again as
follows:
AUGUSTA, Sunday evening, July g, 1876
My dear Mr. Fisher: If you have not started
when this reaches you, / pray you leave for
Augusta at once / am very sick, but / know
what am talking about, and, IL IS largely for
your sake that desire TO see yOu, and to see
you at once, Don't delay. Ii may be too late
Don't refuse a sick man. j. G.. B.
You can 20 back return train. One hour
will do here. Come directly to my house.
Don't go to hotel.
sit was an outrage,'' said Mr. Warren
Fisher, "that Mr. Blaine should have taken
those letters in the way he did. Mr.. Multi
gan has never forgiven him and he never
will. Nothing within Mr.. Blaine's power to
give a promise could have bribed or induced
him to give up the remaining documents,
which he held with the tenacity of
terrier. Mr.. Blaine's denial that he
ever offered to pay Mulligan for those letters
is absolutely false. When in 1880, just be-
fore the convention, he sent for me through
Elisha Atkins to come and see him in New
York, went and we had a long conference
at the Fifth Avenue hotel. He then asked
me what thought Mulligan would take to
give up the letters he still held. told him
that did not believe there was enough
money in the country to buy them. He
LOlu me THAT ne was Wiling 10 pay any
price, but that he must have them. l asked
how much he would pay. He said, "any-
thing, but get them" 1 said: ''Well, there
must be some limit" and this was what
prompted him to name $4,000 as the sum
that would be forthcoming in the honor of
Mr.. Cummings, Elisha Atkins partner, for
the return of the letters then in
Mulligan's possession. 1 came back
to Boston and laid Mr.. Blaine's offer
before Mr.. Mulligan, but he was immovable.
He spurned the proposition, and seemed to
be more settled than ever in his determina-
ton to hold the letters"
1t has generally been considered that the
settlement between Blaine and Fisher in
September, 1872. included the return of all
the correspondence. But Mr. Fisher
to-day said that no such re-
turn was contemplated. The
settlement related to their money differences
entirely, ahd was completed by interchange
Of receipts. It was found that Mr. Blaine
was owing s3S, 900 to Mr.. Fisher, and the in
debtedness was met by notes. Fisher and
Mulligan were therefore rightfully and hon
orably the possessors of Mr.. Blaine's cores
pondence.