Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te mahi a Blaine hei kairipoata Republican i arahi ki te whakauru ki nga kaupapa torangapu o te roopu Republican. I te tau 1856, i tohua ia hei karere ki
te Huihuinga ā-Motu o te Rōpū Reipa tuatahi. Mai i nga ra o mua o te roopu, i kitea a Blaine me te parirau totika, e tautoko ana i te Kooti Kooti Kooti Kooti Kooti Ko John McLean mo te whakaingoa perehitini mo te John C. Frémont tino kaha, te kaitono whakamutunga. I te tau e whai ake nei, i whakawhiwhia a Blaine ki te kaituhi o te "Portland Daily Advertiser", i whakaaetia e ia, i hokona e ia tana paanga ki te "Journal" i muri tata mai. Heoi, i mau tonu tana whare i Augusta, me tana whanau e tipu haere ana. Ahakoa i mate te tama matamua a Blaine, a Stanwood, i te tamarikitanga, ka rua ake nga tama a ia raua ko Harriet i muri tata mai: Walker, i te 1855, me Emmons, i te 1857. E whā anō ā rāua tamariki i ngā tau i muri mai: ko Alice, ko James, ko Margaret, ko Harriet. I tenei wa ka wehe atu a Blaine i te hahi Presbyterian o tona tamarikitanga ka uru atu ki te roopu hou a tana wahine, ka noho hei mema o te South Parish Congregational Church i Augusta.