Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-02-03
MAGNETIC III. A1NE

I1f1Ns ~ LIN bLAlINE.
For sixteen years James G. Blaine
has been tue foremost, the most bril-.
liant, most recnperative and he.
role quantity in American public liFo.
1t has been forty years since the
death of Henry Clay, whose life MIR.
biaine's has been thought to resem
Bile and whose pclity aud policy AIr.
Blaine has sustained moro than any
other Map. The longest lease OF
manufacturing protection and of in
ternal Improvement, thirty years, are
exactly contemporantous with hlr.
B!ainc'e public service in Washing
ton, from 1862 to 1892 The dislike
OF sectional hatred and persecution
which he eXenplilied in attacking the.
Force bill of 1875 has been confirm
ed by the future of similar rnleav
or this year of My Blsine's decense.
Never ut any time has no been the
advocate of cruel and intolerant leg
islation OF of retail ,tion aud personal
hatred
He coulI suffer ncutcly and be ST.
lent. Throughout his nature ran II
rare min4ling Of the boyish and fem.
mime, and his domestic life was sw Get
and unaffected. He WAS born poor;
he married poor; lie contendod hard
TO raise his large fnmily to independ
enc. and give them homes suited to
their station and education. All this
he achieved, anal in addition lived his
manly and athletic int. llectual career
occupied With refined and lofly uucS-
tons III he interests of iis country,
of peace, of industry, learning umd
liberty. lIo hal II wit, skillfulness,
courtesy aud understanding III II
high d"Srce. Compared to many of
the men vino ihomghi they were his
equals lie compared us Cicero to some
bnrhnrians.
In social life he was century
ahead Of almost every man who in
dulged public ambition. His board
was beloved by ladies and gentlemen,
American or foreign, and whom he
took the presiding officers place at Il
Pan American Commission or other
public fornali'y, the magnetic charm
Was to plucato tho rude>t, to dssi-
pate the hasiifulnsss OF them OF little
self estaoni and spread the harmony
I'll his nature through obstructive or
corrodod minds. In these, rs in
most respects. MIR Dlaina was, as in
yo"th, t,.,tcher,a great school ,cacl,
or, like Aristotle, who taught Alex,
2nder Of Alacedon. He taught tho
blind H. their asylum ut philulclphia.
He taught the boys OF Maine in the
columns of his paper at Augusta. iIe
taught Congress, singing out It's
wistful. tinid, companonless mc,u
bors aad finding for thom speech and
confidence. Congress was proud Of
him when ho VAS its gentle shcp
herd, and party i,Spcrity forgot itself
beneath his chivalrons dispcnsu,ion.
he hiId the npt"st things To say on
tho greatest OCCASION and was free
equally from pcdnntry and nris,oc.
rncy. Although Of iino descent. his
parents once wealthy and OF cleynt, d
'"'''''9''V' uh" cSi't'e' ana MS great
Srandinther High Sheriff of half OF
Pennsylvania and tho providcr OF
meat and drink for tho army OF Wash
in%ton, he never talked OF those sub
.ctg nor Oh Iimsoll He lovad 30 be
'hn champion of large and Living.
questions, to learn aud to absorb
rom others knowledge to SEQ his
ennntry moYc forward on tho lines
nj liberty. progress aud wealth, and
10 constitute one homogeneous poo
pie with versatile industries and I'M
'nil"enlial example amonS the Ma
tons. tlo began with the advocacy
OF union and Freedom and ended wit
Tie cndeayor for conue,co and re-
cirrociiy.