Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-24
BLAINE'S BOOK.
The Advance Sheets Furnished the New
York Papers.
The Planned knight Criticiscs President
Buchanad's Administration.
A Bloody Shirt Campaign Document.


New York. March lsth.-The
shadows of the great presidential
struggle are already falling athwart
the political horizon of the Empire
state; that business depression which
is invariably felt in the months pre-
ceding the election of the chief magis-
trate Is observable In every quarter.
Politicians are already making out the
"slatesn for prospective deals, and rep
resentatives of both parties can he seen
in close confab in the hotel Hobbies,
theatcr boxes and on the street cor
ners. The papers abound In DO.
liticai news and pointed paragraphs
relative TO the coming battle.
JAMES q. BtAINE,
with that consummate skill.peouliar 10
the "Plumed knight, y has succeeded
in working ups boom which brings
terror into the hearts of the ndlninis-
tration followers In New York. From
the recesses of his home in Lafayette
Square, Washington, u. c., he has
been playing deep game ON tho
presidential chess-board. His faithful
adherents IN the North have persist
emily, though quietly, kept him be-
lore the political world while he has
been playing the role of historian
the quietude of his own library, al
most under the shadows OF the nation-
oil capital, and within the range of
hearing OF those stormy scenes which
vibrate backwards through the history
the past decade, and IN which the
Maine statesman was central figure.
While Mr. Blaine has ostensibly been
letting matters drift, he has been
scanning the political world with all
the astuteness which comes from his
wonderful experience and abili-
~ and ultimate association
with the affairs of the
nation since the outbreak of the
civil war. He has discovered that the
disruption of the Republican party,
which threatened lis very existence
when MIR. ConlSiing and little ME
Too" were forced TO resign from the
United States senate, has healed into a
fostering sore, and that The delegates
TO the Chicago convention are likely
to go there unpledged. With the skill
which has always characterized HIS
movements he has always scorned the
idea That he Is working for nomina-
ton and claims that he has left the
political world for the world Of letters.
The opponents OF Mr.. Blaine had said
before the convention, but In this they
were mistaken. He has already per-
mitted
THE ADVANCE SHEETS
of his so.called history to appear in the
papers, They dwell upon the presi.
DENTAL election Of 1860 and the events
which preceded and led TO the war be-
tween the states.
he chapter which serves IA q pre-
mise and frontisplece OF Mr.. Blaine's
History OF Modern Politics In the
American Republic,p Is most interest
ing, IN that IL shows, in clear, concise
aud perfect English, that master
lion. His arraignmeEt Of his conteni-
porarles who differ from him in poli-
lies lie worthy TO have fallen from the
pen OF Maculay, writing with his bit
ierest preiudices fully awake, He
hrows the
BURDEN OF SECESSION
iron the political leaders of South
Carolina, who forced the state into
secession against the will of The people.
md then asserts that the senators from
he Southern states disregarded the
wish OF their constituents in fuyoring
ecessi0n. lie dwells upon Their meet
ny IN Washington on the 9Th of Jan
AIRY, 1851, and claims they ignored
ne tillle-honored custom and the
ight OF the states To instruct their sem
lois, and deliberately piloted their
out of the Union
Bainst the sentiment of the people.
ie notes with admiration the great
niluence Of Alexander III. Stephens.
ihieh was futilely exerted against the
hantasln OF securing better terms out.
Ide of the Union.
After leading the reader UP TO the
mad outbreak of the South.D as he
elns IL, he pitches into
PRESIDENT BUCHANAN.
nd claims that he was opposed TO the
Duih seeding, but that the Influences
MS advisers, whom he had drawn
lto ana around his administration
ere greater than his attachment for
ie Union; that he had Away looked
10 the statesmen of the South asa
lptii9r class, and that guided by
ZEN ne declared In his message TO
&c following congress "tlat after the
Jured states had used all peaceful
ld constitutional means 10 Obtain re-
Tess. revolutionary resistance TO the
Mon was iusliiiable.u This arou-
ent Of President buchanan Is de-
AIRED by the historian 10 have been
ost projudicial 10 the Union, and he
lqaenily alludes to II us "a fatal nd
ission.p Mr.. Blaine then ATTEMPTS
show how the members of Mr. Blc.
mans cabinet shaped his policy and
'dened The gulf between the North
ID South.
The Maine statesman then loosens
3 now OF his f.rtlle Imagination In
iogy upon
JUDGE JERE BLACK,
iom he compares to Lord Bacor, and
~ how this great statesman atteinpt-
10 stem tile tide of secession and
evolutionary Resistance Hegraph-
lily tells how thegreat iurist almost
lcked the brand from the burning,
d how the president WAS carried
Dg by the irresistible force OF events
ich had been famed aud fired by
/, Southern Leaders In congress. In
inning up President Buebananis
Mr.. Blaine uses this
guage:
III Mr.. Buchanan had possessed the
will OF jackson or the
bborn courage o. Taylor, he could
70 changed the history OF the revolt
inst the Union.
A great opportunity came TO him,
he was not equal 10 1t. Always nh
nlrable adviser where prudence and
ton were the virtues required, lac
: fatally wanting In siiuation