New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-11-02

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Ave thousand millions Of the accumulated savings OF the
labor OF this country well worth saving II they could be
| saved without wrong He had no relations with the
South He had accepted Office. as Gen. Dix had done
from Administration that represented the South lie
went for Douglas when Dix went for Breckenridge. In
published letter. 1862 he mentions the fact that
Preston King asked him whether no thought he could
pass the Senate Of the United States nmatng that ho
was prescribed by the South Ho never reconced him
| self to them Gen. Dix did.
All his life he had stood for the social and Industrial
system OF the North In its competition with the social
aud Industrial system Of the South After the mmense
emigration had set In, which In the past Is years has
added 900 foreign population to the North Mr. It'll
den that natural would give not only safety
but supremacy the North in all the Territories, aud
the true craftsmanship was TO avert II possible an
armed collision between the sections. II that could not
| be done. to defer it as long as possible. Daring
November and December. 1860. after the pub
| lie mind became alarmed. no was In
vited to private consultations In this city, in which such
leading Republicans Hamilton Fish. tho late Charles
II. Marshall, A. A. Low, Daniel Lord, AIT Stewart.
Moses Taylor. and Others participated, and made
speeches at those meetings. At William III. AspinwaIPs
house. at dinner party )nths before tho war began,
lie publicly told q distinguished southern gentleman
that the Democratic party or the North would NOT hod
e au ana Let tasm Tp tho m
! held to Southern men and to everybody else
MULTIPLICATION AND SECESSION REPUDiATED.
Mr.. Tlden mad written In advocacy OF Con. Jackson's
views in the Of 1885, In speech at meet
ing in 1866, at which Gen. DIX presided Mr Tilden
| stated the doctrine which he has ever acted. as
! follows:
FgLIow.CrrrzEys: studied this whole question in
1883 during the controversy between Federal Gov
ernment ana the State OF South Carolina. Ii ever
studied any subject thoroughly and exhaustvey it
this question. arrived at conclusions clear and so
completely thought OUT, that have never since felt
| shadow OF DOUBT rest upon them. Mr.. Madison. the
father Of the Constitution the United States, then
living He participated largely in the discussions OF that
| OF the views Of the trainers, and OF the c0tem
poraneOus history Of the Constitution large political
philosophy, aud half century OF thought. by the one
great intellect In my judgment no man can claim to
understand the Constitution or Government OF the
James Madison In the discussions of that period II
with Mr. Madison in denying the right OF any STATE to
Jackson was Prosidenf, Martin Van Buren, Wee
President Edward Liyingson was Secretary OF state,
was Governor Of this State All OF these great statesmen
Buren, Trsa asd
notification and secession as ala Jackson MadSon'
The Constitution of the United states is. by its own
terms, declared to be perpetual The Government Gre
upon each individual ci,izen No State is authorize I'D,
any contingency to suspend or ObsruGt thai action,
to exempt any oitzon from the Obligation to ooedi-
ence Any pretended act OF notification or secession
whereby effect attempted to be produced abso
utely void The oifense OF the individual citizen ylo
atin2 the lawful authority OF the United states pre-
cisey the Same as II no SUCH pretended authority ever
existed
| MR.. TILDEN's CAREER CONSISTENT.
VI ,NIr. Tden perfecdy settled limo OF action
in accordance with the convictions Of his life So long
as there any possibility with honor aud without
wrong to avert civil war; he anxious to avoid such
great calamity That the reason why at the first
meeting the subject he socitous to do nothing
that not and prudent and free from any
chance of adding unnecessary fuel TO the flame He Is
the habit of giving sanction to resolutions which
he has On this OCCASION involving 80 i'm
portant responsibilities to his conscience and God, he
thought Incumbent him to inquire what was going
to be dono before he lent the meeting his sanction.
VII. There q moment when he had any
doubt anybody else had right have any doubt,
what part he should take when civil should occur
His opinions that subject were manifested on great
many OCCASIONS during the war.
Mr.. Tden for 10 or Is years, in period beginning
long the deeply engrosed professional
life member of any Democratic State Conven
ton Of any political organization. have looked
through many documents, letters. and speeches. and
nd the substance OF them best stated In the following
extract In letter to The Euening Post dated Feb. 7,
1863, Mr.. Tilden said
That in time Of war could not deal with Gov
ernmen although disappearing Is policy without more
reserve than was necessary IN debating al admnistra
was That II we should parayze the arm OF our own
enemy Striving al US MrougG Il; that i was Mis pecu:
darby phich sometimes caused tnOries 70 BE- suppressed
peritOus TO cira liberty"
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM ADOPTED AGAINST HIS
PROTEST
One word in regard TO the resolutions of the Chicago
Convention 1864 say Mr.. Tilden had RESPONSE
bty whatever for that resolution Tie statement or
Mr. PerrepOnts speech that Mr.. Tden aided the Spe-
cial Committee OF which he member to write and
report" that resolution, is untrue. Mr. Tden was not
member OF the Special Committee. He was member
the General Committee and in It he made speeches
against that resolution until notifications were made,
to which those who sided with him at first assented till
he left alone. The phrase in the resolution most
Objectionable to him offered to be omitted il he
would agree the Of the resolution. He refused
No matter what doubts there may be as to the con-
sruction OF that resolution Mr.. Tden opposed 10 first
and last and said lis advice to Gen. Mcclellan to
discard it in his letter OF acceptance.
In the New York dele CATION Mr.. Tden made speech
against any resolution in favor Of armstce aud de-
carng the sduty OF all citizens TO leave that
question to the Judgment Of the Administration OF
President Lincoln. asserting that it impossible in
the of things that anybody else could judge what
would be the practical effect OF such measure. He
also spoke against Convention being an inadequate
and untmey measure in the midst OF flgrant war. He
also argued with great force and impressveness that
the only possibility of settling the controversy
between the North and South was In the
Union that differences could be compromised or post
poued or temporized with inside the Unon which
forced immediate adjustment IL there was TO be
separation; that questions Of immense difficulty
would be created by separation that tho OF
the parties did allow them to deal with each other
inside the Union, negotiation wOuld be utterly imprac
ticabe on Of separation and that solution
could be found except in the arbitrament
OF force That speech was for threeqlirters
of hour. There are plenty or men OF
high character now living who heard 1t. orief