The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-11-10
raE - 0F LLLUT. TILDEN.


TIE CASE on LItUT. TlLDEN.
WeeoPy DE following communicable from
the last Boston Courier:
A viudicauon Of Lieut.. B. P. Tilden from q
most gross imputation on his character having
appeared ia some Of the daily journals Of This
city, oyer the name of M. W.. F. Claiming.
who, without sole tation or suggestion fr NJ
any of Mr.. Filden's friends, prepared thestaie-
ment which he has published from his own
sense of what was due to an injured man, il
may not be improper for those who are most
interested In Mr.. Tilden'S reputation, to take
some notice Of the circumstances which have
given his name such a painful Dotoriery. Iii
probably known to every reader Of the public
journals, that Lieut.. Tilden, Of the Cd Regi-
ment United States Infantry, q short time be-
fore the ratification of the late treaty, was Tried
BY a military commission il the'city Of Mexico,
on charges of burgI airy ard murder, was con-
demned to death, and would have been exc
cuted, il the sentence Of the court had not buen
RENTED by the commanding general in favor of
all the persons involved in the same judgment.
The relatives and friends Of Lieut.. Tftder,
who had known his course Of life from early
youth, had marked the high moral principle he
had exhibited in various situations, and had
received ample testimony Of the estimation in
which he was held asa brave and honorable
officer, could not for a moment believe him
guilty of the crimes alleged; and when,
through the favor Of the War Department at
Washington, they were permitted to ascertain
the nature Of the evidence against him, by an
examination Of the official copyofthe proceed.
ings Of the military commission, their PERSIA.
sion of his innocence was confirmed. The
testimony against him, processing from two
accompliCes in the plot to which they endeav-
ored to show that he was privy--in itself there
fore liable TO the strongest suspicion--confrm-
ed by no collateral prOof--and contradicted by
testimony OF a directly opposite characterize
far from proving his guilt, should have cansed
his instant acquittal, That the sentence found
no justification in the evidence before tho
court, was the opinion, not Of interested friends
alone, but of an impartial and eminent pro-
l%essional gentleman in whose hands the spro-
ceedings' were placed.
Since hat time Lieut.. Tilden has been in
voIved in new troubles, OF which the public
has been kept informed Having resigned his
commission and determined to remain in Next
co, where the circumstances under which he
unlustly suffered appear to have been better
understood than they cou'd be in the United
States, he became an obj Ct Of suspicion with
the Mexican Government during the late revo-
lutionary attempt of Paroles, and was order
ed to leave the country. For not complying
with this order he was imprisoned, and after
several weeks confinement has been released,
through the good Offices, as ii is understood. of
Mr.. Clifford, the American Minister in Mexi-
co, and is now on his way home. Suffering
and disgrace, unjustly heaped npon him, have
only decpenod the interest felt in HIM bv those
who can appreciate his worth, and who wait
TO receive him within the shelter Of their do
nestle symparhies. To his countrymen. and
especially to his townsmen, they appeal, to re-
verse an errone us judgment, and to relieve
his name from an infamous imputalion. And
they ask editors who may have helped 10
soread SO injurious intelligence, tn publish this
Orlef statement in their respective journals