The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-08-18
HORACE GREELEY AGAINST SAMUEL
!. TILDEN.

HORACE GREELET's EXPOSURE AND AR
RAIGNsIENT OF SAMUEL j. TTLDEN AS THr
PATRON OF ''REPEATERs'' AND BALLOT.
BOX SUFFERS IN THE DEFEAT IN NEW
YORK. IN 1S6s-'69, OF GRANT AND Girls
woLD, AND OF THE REFORM coNsTrrU-
TIoN OF NEW YORK.
o, 8 Huna6ag! tby name is Democratic Re
foYm!,''
In the great debate in the United States
Senate during the esession of 1s74-'75. slim
nlated by Democratic White-League devil
try Mt New Orleans in January, 1s75-by
the violent conspiracy of the Democratic
White-I-eague minority to seize and Or
ganize the Louisiana Legislature. in the
White-League interest, byte mpling down
the laws guaranteeing the rights of the Re
publican majority-in that debate the De-
4nocracy, led by Judge Thurman. pleaded.
IN Justification of White-League violence,
rebellion, and outrage. that Kellogg was
not elected Governor-that he was falsely
counted in Were it true the clLlrge was
grave one-a damning one. Because if
any condition of affairs, in a free goveirr-
ment, justifies rebellion-if any justifies
violent or armed resistance to an existing
government-it is the forcing into power
and place. either by violence or fraud. of
set OF rulers condemned or repudiated BY
the majority. It is practically Il violent or
fraudulent subyersion of the will of the
people-an overthrow by violence or fraud
of the fundamental laws of the State; tru-
". under every aspect. an intolerable con-
dition of affairs.
How well did Thurman understand that,
how well did the Democracy. But the
charge, utterly false. was only fabricated
as plausible Justification of irrepressibIe
White-League deviltry. and supported pre-
tendeoliy with elaborate proofs ingeniously
fabricated to miSead the American peo-
pie, still Jealous of the integrity of the law
and the purity of their Government. But
the monstrous structure of demogoouery,
falsehood, and fraud. as whole and in de-
tail, in all its parts tumbled ignominious-
ly into ruins under the trenclant blows
of Roscoe Conkling and other senatorial
champions. Not support was left stand
ing.
Senator Conkling. after dispo<ing of the
charge by Thurman that Kellogg was
not elected Governor of Louisiana, saws. in
his magnificent argument in the Senateof
January IS and 90. 1875:
Other States have known deeper
wrongs than these but they did not resort
to the blade. the bullet, and the torch
1Neto York has kR0lc1 deeper erroads than
these. II IS an open secret aotc that an 1865
ate ONCE Of Gorernor srten The peopGe had
elected John 4. Gristcold. The couut arzs
Jdks.Hed By forgery more than thirty thousand
an tIc0 counties. = Who did it,
The managers of the Democratic party
and they seated i'll the Legislature wear
aIfer year men whom the people had voted
down. The same regime made. the courts
and made then corrupt. They made the
inspectors of election, and the inspectors
pttiluted and IlebauciIed tie baIlor-bf,v
Ihey q vided the chief city of the State bv
suddenly redistricting it Gil the eve of eIec-
Iion III such wise as to bisect blocks and
houses, so that men domiciled in the same
house could vote and repeat i'm flifFerent
election districts. WELDING l1surped eye
cutive and legislative power. they nI,In-
dered the treasury by the most colossal
robbery of modern times. By such as
LoundtnS means Il political party fthe De-
IasAeFacy Tor years dominated State of
1Ve million people. and held it by the
throat. They made taxes. assessments.
tributes. and exactions tIle bribes and the
penalties of political submission. >.
And who were the authors. who the ma
Of this infamous, stupendons
and frightful structure OF unparallelel
crime; this systematic pollution. and
''debaucfing of the haIlot-box;'' this long
carnival OF bloody violence and fraud by
which five million Of people,' were so
long dominated . and 9. held bv the
throat ?'' Why, SAMUEL j. TILDEN.
rs chairman Democratic State Commit
tee, !" with Boss Tweed, John L. Hoffman.
Connolly q Co., as coadjutors aud ac-
tive Instruments.
There is no longer a question as to the
facts Of this damning arraignment. They
can be neither refuted nor denied. They are
Row part o. she history Of the country.
aud form one of the for'lest stains upon the
escuteheon of the Republic. But we pro-
peso to furnish the proofs. We shall do it
out of the mouth of patriotic man flmil-
lar with every fact of the damning record:
in the language of man honored and
trusted BY the Democracy, and whose abilf-
ty, integrity, and wortti-wIlose veracitv-
were confessed and attested by the De-
in its selection OF him in 1879 as
ts standard-bearer before the nation. We
mean Horace Greeley.
In 1869 Mr. Greeley addressed two open
: Letters to q Potftfcid,s''-- SAMUEL
I. TLDEN, Chairman Of Me Democratic
Ss0e CO1uafztee e''-in wIllcEhe arraigDs Til
len. and demonstrates his criminal COM
,licity in--his direct responsibility for
--tllese vie frauds. But previously. in the
E'rtbe'se, prior e the election prior othe
lerpetratlon Of tlIis monstrous ssyillainy
e ssag1ls Eliien and the State that they are