Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-03-02

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from the back parlor door and was gong
from the front parior door and my daugh-
ter was standing in the psrlor.
=, mrs. Blaine sad most insultingly TO
the servant AS she came in. Stay here and
watch those people, as ii they were
thieves, Well. she did not cay that ex-
actiy. did not feel angry even then. /
felt rather plying than otherwise. IL
seemed TO tell the womans whole life and
history--the battle she had with people
stay here and watch these people
When l went into the carriage tho
nurse-the nurse with the impedimeDt in
her speech--it must have been almost
funny, the scene where she stood at the
foot of the stairs with the baby in her
arms, and said 10 my daughter: 'G-g-go
on up, 90 up 10 your husbands room.
You have just as much right there as Mrs.
Blaine, Sr., has in her husbands ROOM
ANOTHER scESR.
with this my daughter began TO cry.
Ny daughters husband was locked in, and
my daughter went 20 the door of his room
and tried 20 speak with him. Miss Coppin-
ger insulted her and Mrs. Blaine kept
shaking the latches Of the locked doors to
see II they would open. Mr.. Blaine does
not refer 20 that scene.
He does not deny IL. He knows that
all his servants knew the truth of it.
The Blaines never supported this
child. Ny daughter could have had her
husband arrested Just as any laboring wo-
man could; sho had just as much right,
but she felt she was too delicate TO do
such thing. She did not care 10 have 1t
90 on record against the childs father.
She was willing 20 wait and see II any,
thing should be done in an honorable way.
"What excuse Is there for abandoning
the child? Men often abandon their pa
rents; but there il scarcely a labOring
man or tramp that will abandon his little
child. Not one single creature OF them
sent penny 10 that child. They would
allow the public or anybody to do anything
tor him.
"Do you know anything about the letter
which Father Ducey wrote TO Mr. Blaine
and which MIR. Blaine did not pubiish?"
II should say he did write." said Mrs.
Nevins. with significant emphasis which
made up for the rather vague nature OF
the reply
DO YOU remember anything of the con-
tents Of father Ducey's letter."
- think, but am not sure that IL was
read 10 us, and think ii was very bitter.
do not think that Father Ducey has
copy of ID, or kept one. You See he did
not think when he wrote 1t that he was
going 10 he dragged into a public personal
controversy with Mr. Blaine.
THE CHUBcHMEs ExpLAIS.
The statement made by Secretary James
G.. Blaine relating to the marriage OF his
son. James G.. Blaine, Jr.. to Marie Nevins,
and their divorce, and his defence of his
wife and son, together with the publica-
tion for the first time Of his letter of Sep
tember -. 1856. TO Rev. Father Thomas ).
Ducey, who married the young couple,
have made a stir to-day in ecclesiastical
,t.a ,,,A Xgrk a ef.agfaI 70 fha
Philadelphia Times:
Mr. Blaine scores Father Ducey for per-
forming the ceremony without notifying
HIM, and especially because his son was at
that time under the age of 10, and de-
nOunces Father Ducey's part in the pro-
ceedings as unworthy of priest and q
man. When Father Ducey was informed
of the publication OF this lotter be was very
emphatic in bis denial Of responsibility Tor
any wrong done IN the matter.
Il can merely refer Mr. Blaine he said,
" 10 the Archbishop. lie knew all l did IN
the matter and approved of 1t. He granted
the dispensatlOn. without which IL would
have been Impossible for me to have mar
ried the couple, for, although Miss Neyins
was q Catholic, young Blame was Pro-
testant. According 20 their statements to
me and 10 the Archbishop both of the
young persons were of the age OF consent.
ANthIlhhOf tNhhihAN y 0lAItMtNAs
Through his private secretary, Monsic-
nor Mcdonnell. Archbishop Corrigan this
morning expressed his views IN the mat
ter. Father Mcdonnell said:
The Arohbishop's position in the mat
ter is simply this Father Ducey brought
the young people with him to the formers
house the evening that they came to New
York. He said he desired a special dispen-
sat0n TO marry them. which the Arch
bishop had 1t IN hs discretion to refuse
whether there WAS any apparent objection
or not.
when the Archbishop learned who the
parties were he had long talk with them
and endeavored to dlssuade them from
taking tho step without the knowledge OF
young Blaine's parents. The young man,
however, seemed TO be determined 10 be
married at once, and the young woman
was equally stubborn. They would listen
to no advice, and SAID If they could not
get dispensation so that Father Ducey
could marry them they would 60 to some
Protestant clergyman who would perform
the ceremony.
MIR. Blame afterwards wrote to the
Archbishop. thanking him for what he had
done and said in his ehorts TO prevent the
marriage, and declaring that he was salts
fed that he had done what he could"