Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-10-04
BLAINE'S CONFESSION.
The indianapolis Sentinel on the
Answers in the Libel
Suit.
Presentation of Facts that Is Absolutely Con.
elusive.
1nalanapolls sentInel. sspt. a.

indianapolis sentinel. sept. "a
On the 9th day Of August the Sen
tinel reciied the report which TO
years has been current, that Jane
q. Blaine betrayed the woman
whom he afierward married. an(
that he only married her when com
PEELED thereto. On the I4th OF Aug
ust James G.. Blaine telegraphed al
order for n libel suit against the
Sentinel, in which (referring TO tbs
publication Just cited) he said "Tht
story is utterly and abOminably
false In every statement and in ev'
cry implication.
There was but one construction Il
be placed upon that statement; II
was intended to be understood as q
denial OF any and every part of the
reports against him. 1t was intend
ed to make the public believe that
there was not a shadow either upon
his ante-nuptial relations with the
woman or upon his nuptials. II
was, by plainest duplication, an as
sertiOn that his marriage had been
unclouded, legal, ia advance OF any
eOhabitation and free from the
slightest irregularity. Both In es-
sence and in form his marriage
was thus declared to have
been the straightforward, open and
above board, iIonofa Bile and immar-
ulate rite wich society, the laws and
the church prescribe and sanction
that was the declaration, between
the lines, of Mr.. Blaine's telegram.
For the reports against him to be
"utterIy and abobinably false in ev-
cry statement and in every implica-
tiOn," Mr.. Blaine's marriage must
have been free from irregularity,
and any irregularify In ii cOnvicts
Mr.. Blaine 0f falsehOod.
The secret marriage In Pittsburg
on the 10Th of March, 1851, and the
birth Of q child in less than three
months thereafter, were facts which
Mr.. Blaine did not expect would
confront him when he ordered the
libel suit. His sweeping assertion
OF "false i'm every statement and in
every implication" was made under
Il mistaken belief that the reports
he so branded could not be proven
true. He had been no "dead head"
in the enterprise OF freeing himself
from entangling evidence. He had
enjoined secrecy upon the two wit
nesses to his marriage at Pittsburg;
the pages recording the marriages
for 1851 have been torn from the
record book lett by the minister,
now deceased, who performed the
the court records Of his
libel suit against the Portland Ar
gus in 1857 have recently disappear
ed, and the year date on the tomb
stone of the child, born within three
after the marriage, was
effaced shortly after Mr.. Blaine's
at Chicago So, there
being apparently no record obtaina-
BILE OF the date Of his marriage, or
the birth of his first child, James
g. Blaine fiattered himself AS being
beyond the reach of exposure of ly-
ing. It was under the lead Of this
that he telegraphed him.
self into court to gull the voters OF
the country and fFighten the press
from further discussing the reports
concerning him.
But, anon, Mr.. Blaine discovered
that he had reckOned without his
host In bringing the libel suit. Con-
tYary 10 the assuraRcesof Indianap0-
lis advisers, the Sentinel did not fall
before his piumed assault. He fur
bher discovered that, despite his ef-
IOrts to silence and destroy evidence,
Ihe Sentinel had volumes of il and
)f the most damaging character !;
evidence that when adduced would
,how him to be an attrOciOus liar
Ind despicable villain. 1t was only
when Mr.. Blaine discovered this
hat he decided to make the confes-
ion he has made q confession
which, view it in whatever light
me may, proves hiia to have lied
ike a Hessian when be said "the |
tory is utterly and abOminably
alse in its every statement and in
ts every implication"
Mr.. Blaine has confessed truthful |
v to the dates of his Pittsburg mar
iage aud the birth OF the child
but he has done SO only /
,ecause he knew the Sentinel has
vidence of both. 1t is not the vol.
Intary statement of q cOurageou,
nan, but the forced confession OF
Oward when driven to the wall. /
He has not, however, confessed to
he falsehOOd with which he at.
empted to deceive the witnesses to
us skulking marriage nor to his
tatement to others that he was not
willingly party to it. He has moi
onfessed to the scandal which he
to run rife and unmet by
i'm in Kentucky against the honor
{ the woman whom he now tells
8 he so much loved even then, He
as not confessed to having returned
lone to Kentucky after his mar
iage and passing himself off there
J a single man, despite the unfort-
nate condition in which the wOm-
n he tells us he loved SO well Was
known to have left the
tate. He has not confessed that he
i'll her the despicable wrong of al
Iwing that public to believe that
ne child to which she was 10 give
irth WAS an illegitimate child. He
as not confessed to having refused
} accompany her to- her home after
he Pittsburg marriage, leaving her
} go alone and without any evil
ence of marriage that might vindi-
ate her honor, to confront the
.andal which rose up against her
nj bowed her down. These and
)Iue other facts Mr.. Blaine omit.
ri from hia confessions.
Being forced by a knowledge of
ne Sentinel's evidence to admit a
less than three months be-
Dre the birth Of the child, II was
ecessary for Mr.. Blaine to invent
Ine story upon which he might
ope to float out of the gulf his libel
ait had plunged him into. With
ut some craft of new design to
ltch on tn. it WAS all apparent that {
e iIust go under Proven mar. {
age in March and n baby born in
une Of The same year, and the sail
q had hOisted, painted: ''The sto-
Y IL utterly and abOminabiy falIe
] every statement and In every ian. {
was swept away. But
Ir. Blaine il the peer of any Jack
~ that ever plOWed the water at
eefing and lacking, or in spinning
arms. He has already boarded his
ewly invented shail0p, and we
ave examined II carefully, both In
y design and construction. Our
autilAf opinion concerning 1t is
nat it's too light IN the poop. 1t
hight have been fairly safe in u