Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-03-03
AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE,

AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE,
Troab!es-The Young Man Was the VIC
tim of IL scheming Woman-The Elder
Mrs Blaine Defended from the Censure
OF u South Dakota Judge. 81
WASHINGTON, Feb. &c. Secretary
Blaine has given to the press the fol-
lowing statement over his own signa..
ture regarding the separation of James
G. Blaine, Jr., and his wife Mr.. Blaine
says:
'.Since the separation of my son and his wife,
three nnd half years ago, my family
have silently borne every misrepresenta.
ton, every slanderous attack, every news
paper interview which it has pleased the
now divorced wife to inspire The one person
aimed at has been Mrs. Blaine: and we have
perhaps been at fault in allowing horror OF
the public discussion Of private matters, com.
bined with a regard for the future OF my grand.
son, to permit sc much #calumny to 20 ,lnail
swered.
s.The last outrage OF the kind embodied in the
decision of the judge at Deadwood, S. D., as.
sumes an official character which makes it i'm.
possible to remain longer silent To remain 81.
lent would be to accept and perpetrate
o great wrong to my wife, a greater
wrong to my grandson than even
publication of the truth can infiict upon him.
1t is necessary in speaking that should give
summary. as brief as possible, of the marriage
and the incidents which followed it and led to
the separation.
ga letter which addressed to Rev Thomas
I. Ducey at the time of the marriage will dis
tinctly state the important facts bearing upon
that event.
In the letter to Rev. Thomas l. Du-
cey, who is rector of St. Leo's church,
New York, Mr.. Blame censures him
for performing the ceremony.
Mr.. Blame then continues his state
ment:
when wrote this letter believed that Miss
Nevins had no other responsibility in the mar
riage than in consenting to ny sons appeal
and was blameworthy for this alone.
Since then l am prepared to say that
the marriage was arranged by her far more
than by my son: that she did everything to
promote it, suggested every arrangement, an
ticipated and provided for every emergency, and
that, in fact but for her personal, active and I'M
firing agency the marriage would never have
taken place. In this she showed knowledge
and forethought not to be expected in
woman Of 81 years. 1t was thus that
a boy II years and 10 months, in
some respects inexperienced even for his age,
was tempted from his school books and his tutor
and blndly led to the altar by q young woman OF
fully 2l years, with entire secrecy contrived by
himself and with all the instrunNntalities OF
her device complete and exact
After a statement of the events and
circumstances connected with the mar
rage Mr. Blaine continues:
II purpose next to show by a somewhat
minute statement of facts and dates the
falsity of the assertion tina: Mrs. Blaine
broke up the marriage relations of my son
and his wife. She did not see her daughter.
n-law until May, 1887, eight months
after the marriage, when, being in New
York, the latter called upon her twice
during her two days stay. The next time
she saw her was a month later. When
about to sail for Europe, on the 9Th OF June,
she was single day in New York and saw the
young woman on taking leave. AT the end Of
fourteen months we returned from Europe
and stopped two three days in New
York. We found that in our absence my
son had not only spent his entire allowance but
that he was deeply in debt It was then ar
ranged that both my son and his wife should
come down to Augusta and have their future de-
termined at a family council"
In this connection Mr.. Blaine pro-
posed that his son and his wife should
occupy his Augusta home, and agreed
to pay for fuel, light and servants,
horse and carriage, and to give them an
allowance of $500 a year. Mrs.
Blaine, Ir., rejected this. Referring
20 young Mrs. Blaine's departure for
New York during her husbands alb
sence with his father at Ellsworth, Mr.
Blaine says:
MRS. Blaine had strongly disapprovcd OF her
departure and had earnestly urged her to re-
main. She did not then dream that our son
would rot follow his wife or that the imminent
G,,r1
she deprecated the angry, and to say
The least. sudden departure, and the
Journey to New York alone with the infant and
nurse. She did not, however, suspect that the
young woman left with any less friendly feeling
toward herself than towards every other mem
Der of the family except my son James.
Finding the young woman determined to
60, and forcseeng the difficulties in their
path since my daughter-in-law utterly de-
clined the provision I made for their sup
port, Mrs. Blaine repeatedly babe her re-
member that she would at any moment re-
ceive the child for any length of time-for
one year, or three years, or ten years, or for
life that she should receive, as all who
know my wife will believe, the very best
care and attention; that she would put his
mother under no conditions whatever, and
that whenever she wished the child to be re-
| turned to her he should be sent. The offer
was not accepted, but it was not declined. II
| appeared to be received in the same friendly
spirit in which it was given. Thus my daughter
ln-law left my home. the only home which my
son could provide for her.
| Just forty-four days after this willfu
| departure she returned to my house accom-
panied by her mother, Mrs. Nevins, my
grandson and his nurse. At the moment Of
their arrival there were in the house only
Mrs Blaine, who was ill, and the servants
Mrs. Blaine at once arose, dressed and went
| downstairs HAVING nrpViOuSiU instructed hel
maid to do everything required for their com
fort. This was the only time She ever me-
Mrs. Nevins. Neither lady advanced to gree
! her. No hand was extended to her
but from Mrs. Neyins, seconded by her daugh
ter, came charges against her son and herself
! insulting and so violent that servant was
called in fer the frankly expressed purpose c.
acting as restraint upon the elder visitor.
In this brief stay of two weeks with us, ant
Oh this last visit of two hours. rests all thu
standardization of the statement OF the judge
at Deadwood. Before leaving for the wes'
! [ had advised with Mrs. Blaine in Tho
event of the return OF her daughter-in-law, ant
she acted upon my advice. Not q word since
the separation has been written by her nor has IA
street in New York. when not word wa:
/ exchanged between them. My son en-
tirely free. No restraint was attempted or de
! sired, or needed to insure separa ton. On thu
day Of her departure he was as strongly deter
mined as on The day of her divorce, not to re
sumo his relations with her.
! Far be it from me to hold my son blameleSS
though when his youth, his uncompleted educa
ton, his separation from the influences
Of home the exchange OF life full
1 cares and uncongcnial companionship ar
considered I hold him more sinned agains
4 than shining But lis mother, at no time, il
| thought or word or deed attempted to separate
this man from his wife. On the contrary, sh
did not fail, by liberality, by consideration an
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