The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-09-25
"0UR DEAR BLAINE"
His Travels Through New York, With
All the Various Incidents.
A COLD APPLICATION ADDED,
The Eclat Of His Presence Grcat-The
Record Following Like n Phantom
Shouts of Welcome and
Groans OF Disgust.
The sentiners Reply to Blaine.


The Sentiners Reply to Blaine.
As Mr.. Blaine's letter to Mr.. Phelps |
and his sworn answers to the interroga-
tories propounded by the Sentinel have
been published in these columns, the |
public is anxious to see the reply of the
Sentinel. The article is too long to pub
lish in full but the HERALD gives the fol-
lowing extracts:
Mr.. Blaine has confessed truthfully to
the dates of his Pittsburg marriage and
the birth of the child Stanwood, but he
has done so only because he know the
Sentinel has evidence of both. 1t Is not
the voluntary statement of courageous
man, but the forced confession of u cow
ard when driven to the wall. He has
falshood with which he attempted
to deceive the witnesses to his
skulking marriage, nor to his statement
to others that he was not willingly u
party to 1t. He has not confessed to the
scandal which he permitted to run rife
and unmet by him In Kentucky against
the honor of the woman whom he now
tells us he so much loved even then.
He has not confessed to having re-
turned alone TO Kentucky after his mar
riage and passing himself OIL there as a
single man, despite the unfortunate
condition in which the woman he
tells us he loved so well was pub
licly known to have left tho State.
lie has not confessed that he did
her the despicable wrong of al
lowing that public to believe that the
child to which she was to give birth was
an illegitimate child, He has not con-
fessed to having refused to accompany
her to her home after the Pittsburg mar
riage, leaving her to 90 alone and with
rout any evidence of marriage that might
vindicato her honor, TO confront the
scandal which rose up against her and
bowed her down at her very home. These
and some other facts Mr. Blaine omitted
from his confessions,
, There can be no doubt that the mock
marriage which he protends to give an
account of, at Georgetown, Kentucky,
in 1850, IL il ever occurred at all, was de-
/ liberately planned to hotray his victim,
. He must have known that such cer0-
/ mony was wholly void and Illegal, and
, its uuly purpose was TO deceive the ledy
, whom he pretended TO have espoused
No minister or magistrate or other OIL.
Ger in Georgetown, Kentucky, would
l have dared to oiliciato on such an oc'
casion without license issued accord
.
a such license or of any such
officer or Clergyman would have
D thrown not only suspicion but utter
4 lawlessness upon such a proceeding IN
: the minds of any one except the lady
unacquainted with legal and necessary
/ forms, far away from her friends anC
protectors.
l. 1t is certain that there was no clergy
y man, magistrate or other officer ut sucl
!. marriage. MIR. Blaine used in hi
"a letter to Mr.. Phelps the stereotype
4 phrase "Married 10 the sight OF God.
a terms rwlnt-I NAV beCn usSd by eAe er
,e seducer in civilized life, and which ar
"a said TO be kept standing in type by tn
ar publishers of obscene literature as al
excuse for adultery. We have onl
10 pity for the victim. No words of re
l. proach for her. She was not
Is "The daughter of hundred Earls,
is The noble Clara We're dc We're
" She was not even daughter of Ken
VI tucky; between the soducer and sue
& spoil stood the avenger, and death woul
10 have been the penalty for the oiiensC
She was poor, fatherless, far from HON
y and kindred, a stranger in strang
land, the easy prey of one who ha
3: gained her womauly confidence, fit oil
b. ject for his purpose, deceived by falls
o. marriage and placed in dishonored pc
sition.
TO concede that Mr.. Blaine was wee
ded to Harriet Stanwood in June, 1855
V. Is to convict him of the grossest infam
that could blacken husbands chara'
IN ter. Ii is to convict him of having, fC
a. some selfish end, compelled her to wal
as before her young lady pupils and ht
ne asssociates as n woman of shame, as h
Is wanton mistress, and with that fol
of stain upon her character TO leave tho'
I'd who had formerly trusted and honort
n; her. IL II not then charity extended
no Mr.. Blaine TO set IL down to his cred
,r, that he did not have that secret ma
IL riago he pretends, and TO just belie'
TO that In his answer on that point he III
of perjured himself like gentleman
W. Oh yes, but what sympathy Will mob
ts manhood have with you--you who pc
IL mitted and caused the woman who
ry YOU say yOu were 80 anxious to secu
ny to Yourself TO leave her Kentucky ass
IT ciates, pupils and friends in shame al
W, dishonor, and in this condition retu
by to her mother, unattended by you, ev,
le- after q second (?) secret marriage, hes
"a Ing no evidence of any marriage VIII
m ever. save her own word, and to with
he three months from this unattended {
Ct rival att the stricken homo TO become
m mother? You, during all this time
IN. yea, at the very time your wife was 81
I'd ing birth to your son, and for maj
months thcroaiter-wero in dista
State, holding yourself out TO the wor
as an unmarried man, and, as we are
j. liably informed, making yourself co
md spicuous in other courtshlps
.os Norily, Mr.. Blaine, you aio n nice hi
"' to appeal TO the noble manhood a.
los wOmanhood of America for sympathy
nd Mr. Blaine had no marriage, secret
'ed Kentucky, ON the 30th of June, 1850, Il
lp- at any other time. This Is susceptil
The of proof, not only by the showing
'ct- havo made of the imposslbility of it u
rty der the laws of kentucky, but by sta
vas monts made Ivy Mr.. Blaine himself
Ugh 1851 and since, and by a chain of e
dencc that no possible lying ON \
Blaine's part can break. The Sentii
will wind that chain about Mr.. Blai
w. in good season.
Do- The Blaine Circus.
l'h NoNKrRs, n. Y.,Sopt. 2i.-Mr. Blai
mas mas in the company of Chairman War
ne. and Andrews, of the State commit
ov. arrived at O'Clock this morning {
nth received hearty cheers all along