Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-10
TILDEN.ON THE DEMOCRATIC VIC.
TORY.

TORY.
At the Democratic jCllifcation in
New York last Thursday evening, Gov
ernor-elect Tilden opened his address
with this noble sentimeut:
The victory which we have lately
achieved in the State of New York is
not a personal victory. No party, no
class of men, can appropriate the bene-
fcent results of that victory. Like the
dews of heaven they will fall upon all
the people. (Applause.) Many Repub-
licans have voted with US, and if we
are wisein our future policy, viii become
co-workers in our cause. (Applause.l
Many thousands Of Republicans who
had not the moral courage to break
from their party ties slept more tran
gully upon their pillows when they
heard of our success. They felt sense
of relief which they could not COM
pletely understand; they felt new hope
dawn upon them for their own personal
prosperity, and for the redemption and
protection of the free institutions of
our country. Applause.l Let us,
then, IN this hour of our congratulate
ton, be magnanimous to those over
whom we have achieved this triumph.
Let us remember, as Democrats, here
tonight what the administration of
Gen. Grant seems nevertO have known,
that the party which is invested with
the power of the government, although
it Will be governed by its own convic-
tons of right in its public measures,
after all holds and exercises a trust for
the people of the whole country. APP
plause. Il
OF the dangers to our liberties, from
which the country is now happily
emerging, he said:
In most countries of the old world
the mere machinery or Government
has been able to subjugate the unor-
ganized masses of the people. Even
in our own time, with universal suf-
frage, half a million of office-holders
and half a million of soldiers moved
from the center, have been able to con-
troll the elections among 100000 of
the French; and to obtain immense
maiorities Cor all the usurpations of
the Third Napoleon. In the reaction
in favor of centralism, caused by the
attempt at secession, our Government
has been going on in career of usurp-
alton transcending the dreams of the
monarchists of 1900. Add to $4,000
ofice-holders and the existing power
over the banks; add to this the power
to be derived from an absorption of the
telegraphs, railroads, and schools, and
an Administration would be generally
sure to re-elect itself or to designate
its successors. Break the sacred ira
dition against a third term and you
will nourish an ambition more fatal to
liberty than the treason of Arnold or
of Burr The President might then
as well be for life, or be allowed to
transmit his trust to his heirs.
Adverting to the course of the Re-
pablican party since the wal, and its
financial legislation, he estimated the
unnecessary waste and destruction of
the past nine years as being fully equal
to two years of the war. What has
been wasted and is gone cannot be re-
covered, but it may be replaced by pro-
duction and frugality. In regard to
the South he made the following
argument to Northern pockets:
The Government policy toward the
Southern States has added largely to our
evils. Those communities are the chief
producers of our exports. They are
large consumers of our products, our
and our imported mer-
chandise. They are our mostproftable |
customers. They pay us commissions |
and profits on everything they do. We
cannot blast their prosperity without