The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-10-01
Galveston News. few days before he wrote
ma ms ahova Mr. Randall said.

Galveston News. few days before he wrote
Us as above, Mr.. Randall said:
"We all looked upon Major Blaine as
heightened, honorable and refined gentle
man. They have it down wrong" said he,
about his being married in 1881. He was
stay in the institute. 1 entered it April 6,
1851. and left in FEBRUARY, 1852. He could
not have been q married man during this
time, because it was commonly understood
differently by everybody connected with
81 saw him constantly, and was in posi-.
ton to know that he could not have been
married"
A gentleman of high standing residing in
the second city in Louisiana, whose name
for the present we choose to withhold, writes
us as follows:
EEIToR SEST1NEL-I was a cadet at the
Western Military Institute at Drennon
Springs, KY, from June, 1851. to June, 1853,
during portion of. whish time James G.
Blaine was professor at said school and we'll
known to me. He was connected with the
school from the time L entered it aud for
some time before, as late, think, as March,
1852.
He was known as a single man during all
this time of my acquaintance with him at
Drennon Springs; was q student under Mr..
Blaine; saw him daily, and am sure that he
was known as an unmarried man.
There is something strange and mysterious
to me about Mr.. Blaine's statement of q
Kentucky and Pittsburg marriage,
knowing. as 1 do, that after both alleged
marriages he was known, for at least several
months and deportipg himself as a single
man.
know of at least t o other men in this
State who were also cadets, and know what
have written you to be true.
We also copy here a personal letter, with
out naming the writer, received by the edi-
tor of the Sentinel from a Kentuckian of
high standing, who knows Blaine well and
is his friend
LOUISVILLE, KY., Sept. 90.
''DEAR STR have read Blaine's letter to
Phelps. ] do not believe his statement of a
secret marriage He left Drennon Springs
in December, 1851. After the session closed
for vacation in June of that year he re-
manned at Drennon Springs through the
watering season, and passed himself off as a
single man; at least no one knew he was
married. l understood at the time, and
have heard it reliably stated often since,
at least one. and, possibly, two ladies. This
conduct of his can be easily proven. In
March of 1851 he was absent at Pittsburg,
but returned and stayed through the water
ing season, and after that taught until De-
cember."
A gentleman residing in Chicago, and also
gentleman residing in Nashville, write us
substantially to the same effect as the fore
going.
In a recent interview with Miss Davis of
Georgetown, KY, who was an old friend of
Miss Harriet Stanwood and James G. Blaine,
Miss Davis said that he, Major Blaine, was q
hirt, fraud and gay deceiver.
In regard to his marriage she says:
81 heard it took place in Pittsburg.
have letters written by Harriet Stanwood
after the school was moved to Millersburg.
Harriet maintained that Blaine was ambi-
tious when here and wanted to marry q rich
heiress of famous family. 1t was said that
he was paying court to Anna Maria Mar
shall, at Drennon. She was one OF the hand
soonest bellies OF that region, and of the ia
nous ohm Marshall family, of Kentucky ~
Concerning this story the reporter talke
with an estimable lady who had taught in
the same school with the Stanwood sis ters
! She said: ''Mr. Blaine taught at Drennon
after be was married quietly to Harriet
| Stanwood, at Pittsburg. 1t was not known
at Drennon that he was married, aud he was
| quite favorite among the young ladies, who
| thought him single. He was especially at
tentive to Miss Marshall, but she found out
later Of his married life"