The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-10-02
"OGR DEAR BLAINE"
A GOLD APPLICATION ADDED.
Tho .sntIner,. nrrly to nlnlnc,

tories p~rOpuulded by tho sentinel have
been published In these columns, the
public Is auXlous 20 SEQ the reply of the
Sentinel. Tho article is too long to pub
li,h in iull hu, the HERALD siycs the fol-
lowing extracts:
Mr.. Blaine rts confessed truthrully to
tho dates oth,S pItt,uurg marriage and
The birth Of tite uli!ld ,stJEwuud, but he
has dOue ~ only because ho knew the
sentinel has evidence Oi both. IL Is not
the voluntary statement of Il courageous
man, hut the forced confession OF II cow
ard whom driven 10 the wall. llc has
not, however, confessed Ia the
ialslaod with which no ATTEMPTED
Ia deceive the witnesses to his
skulking marriage, nor 10 his statement
10 others that no was not willingly II
party 20 u, lie has no, confessed 10 the
scandal which no permitted TO run rife
and unmet hy him In Kentucky against
the honor or the woman whom he now
tolls us hC 50 much loved even then.
lie has not confessed 10 having re-
turned alone to kcniucky after his mar
rlngc and passing himself OF there as Il
single man, despite the unfortunate
condition In which the Oma he
.clis us he loved 40 well was pub
liciy known To have lett the State.
lilo has not confessed that he did
hcr the dc~spicable wrong of al
lowing that publia to believe that the
child to which she was 10 -iVo birth was
an illegitimate child. He has not III
iesSed 20 having refused to accompany
her 70 her home after tho Pittshurg mar
riagC, leaving r'r 20 10 alone and with
out any evidence or marriagUthat might
Vindicpte her honor, 10 confront the
scandal which rose up against her and
bowed EvrGown AZ her very hnlGe. These
and some other facts Mr.. Blaine omitted
from mis- confessions.
There can he no doubt that the mock
marriage which he pretouGs tn give NJ
account Of, Mt Georgetown, kentucky,
in 1850, il ii over occurred NJ all, was de-
liberately planned TO botray his victim.
He must have known that such Il CerC-
monN was wholly void and Illegal, and
its only purpose was to deceive the lady
whom he pretended to have esrOuSed.
No minister or magistrate or other Off
Ger in Georgetown, kentucky, would
have dared to Olliciate ON such an OC-
casion without Il license issued accord
ing 10 law. And the absence o.
such license or of any such
officer or clergyman would have
lawlessness upon such Il proceeding in
the minds Of any II except the lady,
unacuuaiuted with legal and necessary
forms, far away from her friends and
protectors.
1t is certain that there was no clergy
man, magistrate or other officer at such
Il marriage. Nr. Blaine used in his
letter to Mr.. Phelps tho stereOtyped
phrase, married in the sight of God"
terms which have been used by every
seducer in civilized life, and which are
said to be kept standing in type by the
publishers of obscene literature as an
excuse for adultery. We have only
pity for the victim. No words of re-
proach for her. She was not
The daughter of a hundred Earls,
The noble Clara We're de We're"
She was not even Il daughter of Ken
lucky; between the scducer and such
spoil stood the avenger, and death would
have been the penalty for the pilense.
She was poor, tatherless, far from home
and kindred, Il stranger in Il strange
land, the easy prey oil one who had
gained her womauiy confidence, fit OBJ
iecG for his purpose, deceived by d false
marriage and placed in z ~di$hon2red po-
10 concedo that Mr.. Blaine was we'd
ded to Harriet Stanwood in June, 1850,
is to convict him of the groSsest infamy
that could blacken Il husbands charac-
ter. 1t is to convict him OF having, for
some selfish end, compelled her TO walk
before her young lady pupils and her
associates rs Il Of shame, as his
wanton mistress, and with that foul
stain upon her character to leave those
who had formerly trusted and honored
her. / it not then charity extended to
Mr.. Blaine to set it down to his credit
that he did not have that secret mar
rage he p~retends, and to just bei'eve
that in his answer on that point he has
perjured himself like a gentleman?
Oh yos, bot what sympathy will noble
manhood have with you-you who per-
mitted and caused the woman whom
you say you were so anxious to secure
to Yourself to leave her kentucky assoc
GATES, pupils and friends in shame and
dishonor, and in this condition return
to her mother, unattended by you, even
after q second (?) secret marriage, bear
ing no evidence of any marriage what
ever, save her own word, and to within
three months from this unattended ar
rival at the stricken home TO become a
mother? You, during all this time
yea, at the very time your wife was CIV
ing birth to your son, and for many
months thereafter-were in u distant
State, holding yourself out to the world
as an unmarried man, and, as we are re-
liabiy informed, making yourself con-
spicuous in other courtships.
Verify, Mir. Blaine, you ale q nice bird
to appeal to the noble manhood and
~womanhood of America for sympathy.
Nj. Blaine had no marriage, secret in
Kentucky, on the 30th of June, 1850, nor
at any other time. This is susceptible
of proof, o only by the showing we
have made of the im~possibility of it un-
der the laws Of Kentucky, but by state
ments made by Mr.. Blaine himself in
1851 and since, and by II chain of evil
depce that no possible lying on Mr..
B!aine's part can break. The Sentinel
nil -;,,l f1nt nhnin nI1nrlN Alp 1Jlltnn
in good season.