Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01
HAYES AND WHEELER.

desire TO say few words upon the record Of
the two candidates, rs illustrating the character
OF each. In 1850, prior to the election Of Mr.
Lincoln, Tilden avoged his adhesion to the
Southern view of the right Of secession. He
declared our system 10 be compact Of con-
federation between the States" withou: 4 com
mon arbiter 20 enforce 4 just construction and
execution Of the instrument. he asserted the
right Of State 10 snap the tie of confedera-
lion as nation might break treaty; and the
right 10 repel coercion as nation might repel
invasion" He thus ranged himself with Frank
lin Fierce. who in January Of the same year, in 4
letter TO Jefferson Davis, gave - aid and cora-
fort" 10 the conspirstors of secession and dis
union. When secession came Rutherford B.
Hayes accepted the resulting war as "iust and
necessary" and demanding the whole power
Of ths country" When the yrea; war meeting
Of April, lodl, was held in New York. Mr. I'll
den declined TO sign his name to the call, requir-
ing first to know what resolutions were to oe
passed. at it, showing BY how delicate thread
his devotion to the country was suspended. Mr.
Hayes said then he would prefer TO 20 into the
war II he knew he was to be killed in the course
of il rather than to i've through and after il
without taking any part in il. In 1854 when Mr..
1flden Was at Chicago helping 10 eoncOct that
resolution of surrender passed by the Demo
cratic National Convention, General HAYES was
writing from the teld tia. - the officer who, at
this crisi,, would abandon his post to electioneer
Tor seat In Congress ought TO be scalped." II
is claimed by Tilden's friends tha; Lincoln
sometimes consulted him. So he toyed with
other dangerous men in the North-corre-
sponded with them, conferred with them
pleaded with them, argued with them,
tested them, toyed with them, that thereby
he might mollify them, sud measure them,
unfang them, or convert them. Lincoln
was dfpiomatist as well as a patriot, and
eorsidered nothing loss which removed an
obstacle from the path of the nation, or
b!uuted the weapon or parried the blow of an
. iemy- Lincoln may have sent for and con-
fesred with Mr.. Tlden ; but the documentary
proof must b. furnished before the country
can believe that such conference was between
friends who confded in each other, and were
eeually intent upon q common object. Like
Wiss the characters of the two men are in
marked contrast. Hayes set up for himself
noble standard when, in college days, he
wrote In his private diary these words ''T The.
reputation that desire is not that momentar
cminence which is gained without merit, a Il
lost without regret. Give me the popula ..v
that runs after, not that which is sought ,r =,
Contrast these words with the spirit shop y, nv
ir. 1ilden, whose training began ir the ehooI
d New York politics, in the corrupt avs of
Van Buren, and whose career has beer q con-
ifnuous devotion TO the methods an 4 nrinei
Pies and measures of that dynasty of which
was but the logical and necessary
ssue. The country can, of all poss' al, raIamj
les, least afford to endure the ov .rsbadowiuc-
LANCER which would come from rapsnI,rtin,
o Washington the seeds which I've r,-o3ucej
q . legitimate growth, the Tamr ,anv growth in
he city Of New Ierk.--Hen. ssssyS HePh.r.
sa q Nsepsvt.