Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-10-04
be void, or else In full force.
(Seai.) w. A.McKIM.

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Sarah 4. Stanwo0d was q sister O
9 Harriet. Blaine became bondsmaI
] with Mckim for procuring the II
] eense. This was October 5, cuis
three months after Blalne's pFefOnd
ed marriage. Wonder what Mad
; blaine thought he and McKiru
I were giving bond for? He dIdn5I
: think IL was TO procure license
> not until months afterward. SsSssr.
ing the ensuing winter" did nc
learn that the laws OF Kentucky
made license ian indispensable
requisite OF legal lnarriage.s " Poor
innocent Maj. Blaine! Poor ignOr-
ant Prof. Blaine aa. aas
a Who will believe that when
Blaine Joined in making that bond
on the Sd or October he did not
know % license was indispensable to
marriage ? Even admitting him
the stupid donkey ne pleads, him.
self TO have been on the 30th OF
June, he surely was enlightened
on that subject on the Sd OF October.
Did he make haste to amend his
blnnder ? III he had had the mar
riage he pretends, and been as anx.
iOus as he pretends to have the girf
"indissolublyn bound to him, would
he not have instantly had McKim
join him la a bond for a license for
himself and Harriet Stanwood? |? II
he had had any marriage, however
secret anil however wanting In tech
nical legal requisites, would he not
have asserted il in behalf of the
honor OF his wife Immediately uDon
| hwr -
pregnancy? He would have been a
c'aven not to have done so. To
concede that Mr.. Blaine was we'd
ded TO Harriet Stanwood IN Jnne,
1850, Is TO convict him Of the gross
est infan1y that could blacken b
husbands character. It IL to convict
him OF having, for some selfish end,
compelled her to walk before her
young lady pupils and her associ-
ates rs woman of shame, as his
wantOn mistress, and with that foul
stain upon her character to leave
those who had formerly trusted and
hOnored her. Is it not, then, char
ity extended to Mr.. Blaine to set IL
down to his credit that he did not |
have that secret marriage he pre-
tends and to just believe that In his |
answer on that point he has perjur. |
Ell himself like gentleman?
Mr.. Blaine does not indicate the |
fashion Of the pretended secret mari |
riage. He has not yet named the
minister or officer who performed |
the ceremony. Perhaps he has not |
yet decided upon the name he will |
give. When he does select one to
thus accuse OF having committed
crime, il will, of course, be that |
of some person who Is not alive 20 |
deny the charge. He names two
witnesses, one the sister of Mrs. |
Blaine and now dead one kins.
man OF his own, who Is also report
ed dead. Such Is the device by
which Mr.. Blaine essays to vindicate
his honor and sustain his libel suit.
The device IL an entirely new one.'
He did moi proclaim 1t TO save the
woman who trusted him, when in1
March, 1851, she had to leave KeH
tucky under cloud and journey 10
her mothers home To be delivered
of her child. He has never pro-
claimed it since until now. "Neces-
sity is the mother OF invention"
Mr.. Blaine has here proven the
truth of the adage. But there are
many inventions which do not
prove to be practicable, and this II
one OF these.
Mr.. Blaine had no marriage, ase-
cret, in Kentucky on the SOth OF
June, 1850. nor ut any other time.
This is susceptible OF proof, not only |
by The showing we have made Of
the imp,sssibilily Of II under the
laws Of Kentucky, but by the state
ments made by Mr.. Blaine him
self in 1851 and since. and bya
chain OF evidence that no ppssiliIe
lying on Mr.. Blaine's part caBbreak.
The Sentinel will wind that chain
about Mr.. Blaine in good season.
BLAINE AFTER HIS MARRIAGE, 4
Blaine claims one secret marriage
in Kentucky in June, 1850 and one
in Pennsylvania IN March, l-5l.
One and one make two. But when
did he d0 the wife the honor Of Ac-
knOwledging her to the world ? We
copy here personal letter, without
the writer, received last
night by the editor OF the Sentinel
from Kenfuekian of high stand.
ing, who knows Blaine we'll aud
has no iil-will against him:
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 20-Dear
Sir have read Blaine's letter to
Phelps. / do not believe hisstate-
ment of a secret marriage. He left
brennan Springs In December. 1851,
After the session closed for vacation {
In June of that year he FeInaaned ~ /
brennan Springs through The, water {
ing season and passed himself off rs
4 siilgle man /, at least no one knew
he was married. / understood at
The time, and have heard u reliabiy
stated often since, that during the {
Of 1851 he cOurted ri, least {
)ne, and, possibly, two ladies, This 4
conduct of his can be easily proven. !
La March or 1851 he was absetif al
but returned and stayed
hrOugh the watering season and {
.fter that taught until December. Z
In Texas, one Mr.. Randall. a .
'riend of Blaine, has recently been
alking to the press IN Biaine,s be-
half. The following Is from an In
erview with him by the Galveston a
News:
ave ALL" said Mr.. Randall, 9
upon Mal. Blaine rs hlgh
oned, hon0rahle and refined gen, d
leinan. They have 1t down wrong" \
aid he, "ahOut his being married
n 1881. He WAS a single man dur d
ng the entire time of my stay la 4
he institute. entered IL April,6, a
SOL, and left IN February 1852. 8
lie could not have been a married n
nan during this time, because II u
vas commonly understood differ y
ntIy by everybody connected with q
he school. s.r. et AS Lrf'.. &
al saw him constantly, and was
u "a position To know that he could
lot have been married." Z
Why was Blaine absent from his \
wife during the vacation and water :
ng season at brennan Springs, and
Why Was he passing himself of as
? What will good wives
ny 0f this?
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