Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-12
TiIden on the Democratic Victory

IIlden on the Democratic victory.
At the Democratic jollifcation in New
York Thursday, the 9th inst, Governor
elect Tilden opened his address with this
noble sentiment:
"The victory which we have lately
achieved in the State of New York is not
personal victory. No party, no class
Of men, can appropriate the benefcent
results of that victory. Like the dews
of heaven they will fall upon all the
people Applause Many Republicans
have voted with us, and if we are wise in
our future policy, will become co-workers
in our cause. Applause Many thou
sands Of Republicans who had not the
moral courage to break from their party
ties slept more TRANQUILITY upon their pill
lows when they heard of our success.
They felt a sense of relief which they
could not completely understand; they
felt new hope dawn upon them for their
own personal prosperity, and for the re.
demption and protection of the free in
stitutions of our country. Applause. ]
Let us, then, in this hour OF our con
graduation, be magnanimous to those
over whom we have achieved this tri-
umph. Let us remember, as Democrats,
shere tonight what the administration of
General Grant seems never to have
known, that the party which is invested
with the power of the government, al
though it will be governed by its own
convictions of right in its public meas
ures, after all holds and exercises
trust for the people Of the whole coun-
try. tApplanse. J.
OF the dangers to our liberties, from
which the country is now happily emerg.
ing, he said:
"In most countries of the old world
the mere machinery OF government has
been able to subjugate the unorganized
masses OF the people. Even in our own
time, with universal suffrage, half mil
lion of office.holders and half million
os soldiers moved from the center, have
been able to control the elections among
40, ,OO0,0 of the French; and to obtain
immense major;ties for all the usurpa
tions Of the third Napoleon. In the
reaction in favor of centralisin, caused
by the attempt at secession, our govern
ment has been going on in career of
usurpation trapscending the dreams OF
the monarchists of 1900. Add to $4,000
ofice-hol1ers and the e<ietlng power
over the banks; add to this the poger 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 tradition
against a third term and you will nonrish
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 Repub-
lican party since the war and its Imam
cial legislation, be estimated the unneces-
sary 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 recovered, but it |
may be replaced by production and fru-
gality. In regard to the South he made
the following argument to Northern
pockets:
THE Government policy toward the
Southern States hes added largely to |
our evils. Those communities are the |
chief producers of our exports They |
are large consumers of our products,
our manufactures and our imported mer-
chandise. They are our most profitable |
customers. They pay US commissions !
aud profits or everything they do. We
cannot blast their prosperity without i'm |
pairing our own. We cannot hold them |
By military force under the scandalous
of the carpet bag govern
mcuts and protect robbers in plunder-
ing tnSm ten tiRes es much as the |
Tweed ring nlundered the RICH metropo' |
lis without ourselves suffering by their
ruin"