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Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography, Chapter 15: (search)
Grant a candidate for President opposition of Blaine and others the Fitz John Porter case and Gen the Presidency were daily springing up-Grant, Blaine, Washburne, Windom, Edmunds, Sherman, and Garfacceptable mistress of the White House. Mrs. James G. Blaine was a tall, large woman with a distinguthe storm of scandal and abuse through which Mr. Blaine had passed in 1872 and 1876, they revived alallied themselves with the friends of Grant or Blaine. So intense was the excitement before the hol's nomination, but through surreptitious means Blaine's agents had succeeded in procuring the active different parts of the State in favor of James G. Blaine. Root and his employees had created an eictitious basis which was incomprehensible. Mr. Blaine was never the author or the leader in the adin the fact that the galleries were packed for Blaine, the clackers losing no opportunity to start a well known as a railroad magnate, nominated Mr. Blaine. It would have been a fine speech before a [6 more...]
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography, Chapter 16: (search)
g of Congress campaign of 1884 nomination of Blaine and Logan activity of General Logan on the st, Mrs. Don Cameron, Mrs. Dahlgren, Mrs. and Miss Blaine, Mrs. Jewett, Mrs. John Davis, Olivia Brigg were received at the State Department by Secretary Blaine. The procession formed and marched to thlinois. He did not agree with the policy of Mr. Blaine and his friends in their constant explanatiogh an arrangement of the national committee, Mr. Blaine came to Illinois about two weeks before the sociate on the ticket was in his own State. Mr. Blaine closed in Illinois at Chicago. The committeallow his name to be used on the ticket with Mr. Blaine, hoping he could thereby save the Republicano avowed their uncompromising opposition to Mr. Blaine personally. Naturally, this aroused a feeling of distrust and jealousy in Mr. Blaine's mind toward General Logan, which, notwithstanding Mr. Bl if a fair count could be secured. At first Mr. Blaine thought of contesting the election and dema[22 more...]
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 20: Congressman and Governor. (search)
n that question and the currency in reply to Mr. Blaine of Maine. There were a majority of bondholdtly called upon by the gentleman from Maine [Mr. Blaine] to reply in some small degree as I may to hgrounds upon which the gentleman from Maine [Mr. Blaine] insists that the five-twenties are not payands as the government chose to give them. Mr. Blaine. Will the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. d one sentence? I answered, Certainly. Mr. Blaine. The decision in regard to the payment of th without the dictum of my friend from Maine [Mr. Blaine]. I did not say that Salmon P. Chase was notlly, but we must be bound by the statute. Mr. Blaine. Does the gentleman mean to say that the gov gentleman will go there he will find it. Mr. Blaine. Authorized by whom? I answered: Authorizhe advertisement to present to the House. Mr. Blaine. I gave the gentleman notice some days ago tt. on long twenty-year government bonds, and Mr. Blaine says I am to be paid in gold for them; that [1 more...]
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
am, Hon. John A., of Ohio, reference, 927. Birney, General, joins Hancock in expedition against Deep Bottom, 717-718; Butler's order to regarding demonstration against Richmond, 722-730; ill, 730; moves in obedience to orders, 730; colored troops under carry Newmarket Heights, 731-733; attacks Fort Gilmour, 737; sends guard to Butler, 738; Birney's Corps, reference, 858. black, Jeremiah S., opinion regarding Charleston Secession Convention, 151, 155; Counsel for Milligan, 1008. Blaine, Jas. G., reply to Butler's speech on finance, 931-954. Blair, Montgomery, visit to, 287. Blake, Commodore, at Naval Academy, 192-193. Blockade runners, facts in regard to, 965-966. Boggs, Capt., Chas., at Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 367. Bonnegras, Mons., at Baton Rouge, 475. Booth, John Wilkes, Johnson suspected of being in league with, 930; calls on Mr. Johnson, 930; confession of fellow-conspirators with, 931. Boot, Kirk, founder of Lowell, 52; opposition to school, 53
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Abbott, Lyman, 1835- (search)
ng so, among the nations of the world; when we ought to form clearly to ourselves our national purpose, and seek such affiliations as will promote that purpose. It is for this reason that, though I am, on principle and after much consideration, a bimetallist, I believe that the nation did wisely in rejecting the free coinage of silver, and is doing wisely in attempting to conform its currency to the currency of the other commercial nations of the globe. It is for this reason that I think Mr. Blaine proved himself statesmanlike in his organization of a Pan-American Congress, although its immediate results appear to have been comparatively insignificant. It is for this reason I think the nation should foster by appropriate measures every attempt to unite the New World with the Old, whether by cable, for the transmission of intelligence, or by commercial lines for the transmission of the products of our industry and our mails. It is for this reason I think we ought to seize the opport
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bering sea. (search)
ian intruders secured 20,000 skins. As very many of the seals thus taken were females, and their young were left to perish for want of sustenance, the actual number destroyed was far in excess of the number of skins, and the extinction of the entire species was threatened. At this juncture a United States revenue-cutter captured one of the poaching vessels. The seizure became at once the subject of correspondence between the British government and the State Department at Washington. Secretary Blaine urged that illicit sealing was a pursuit contra bonos mores, against international comity; and he argued against the claim of Lord Salisbury, who had asserted that Bering Sea could not be mare clausum under any circumstances. The British premier declined to recognize the claims of the United States, although he expressed regret at the wanton destruction of a valuable industry, and asked that the right of the United States to seize the Canadian vessels be submitted to a court of arbitr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bering sea arbitration. (search)
t of the seizures unsettled, the executive government of the United States passed into the hands of President Harrison, Mr. Blaine, on assuming the duties of Secretary of State, sought to carry into effect the proposition of his predecessor for an in defend the action of the )previous administration and thereupon followed the notable diplomatic correspondence between Mr. Blaine and Lord Salisbury, in which the former sought with all his recognized forensic skill to defend the action of the Secre, defence of the seizures — was not advanced in the legal proceedings of 1887, and was not mooted until a late stage of Mr. Blaine's controversy with Lord Salisbury. The chief credit for the development of this point is due to Mr. Tracy, Secretary onited States than the regulations which Mr. Bayard proposed to Lord Salisbury as a settlement of the question, or which Mr. Blaine offered to Sir Julian Pauncefote. If, therefore, we obtained more from the tribunal than our government proposed to ac
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clayton-Bulwer treaty, the (search)
Balize, and President Buchanan, in his next message, declared that all disputes under the Clayton-Bulwer treaty had been satisfactorily adjusted. This treaty then was accepted as settled and binding on both parties until November, 1881, when Mr. Blaine wrote to Mr. Lowell, the American minister to Great Britain, urging the abrogation of the treaty on the ground that it was formed thirty years before under circumstances that no longer existed; that the development of the Pacific coast had enortes in the canal, and that the well-being of this country demanded a modification of the treaty. To this letter Lord Granville made reply in January, stating Great Britain's reasons for regarding the treaty as still in force; but as meanwhile Mr. Blaine had left the State Department there was no further diplomatic discussion on the subject until the publication of a proposed treaty with Nicaragua. This treaty was in direct violation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, for its object was to provide
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fergusson, Arthur W. (search)
Fergusson, Arthur W. Translator; born about 1855; has been for many years connected with the State Department in Washington, D. C.; accompanied the members of the Pan-American Congress on their trip through the United States during Secretary Blaine's tenure of office; was chief translator of the bureau of the American republics; Spanish interpreter for the American peace commissioners in Paris in 1898; appointed Spanish secretary to the Philippine commission in 1900; and secretary to the chief civil executive (Governor Taft) of the Philippines, July 10, 1901.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore 1817-1885 (search)
Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore 1817-1885 Statesman; born in Millstone, N. J., Aug. 4, 1817; grandson of the preceding; graduated at Rutgers College in 1836; became an eminent lawyer, and was attorney-general of New Jersey, 1861-66. He was chosen United States Senator in 1868, and was re-elected for a full term in 1871. He was a prominent member of the Republican party. In July, 1870, President Grant appointed him minister to England, but he declined the position. On Dec. 12, 1881, he entered the cabinet of President Arthur as Secretary of State, on the resignation of Secretary Blaine, and served to the end of that administration, March 4, 1885. He died in Newark, N. J., May 20, 1885.
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