Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-07-06
ApvEBFIsIGN RATES.

Senator Nathaniel P. Talmags, who
had separated from the Democrats on
account of the financial policy of Van
Buren. The Wings had invited any
Democrats whO might desire to reply
to the Senator to express their views.
Tilden was pushed into the bench by
some of his fellow students, who were
in the rear part of the hall.
Tilden studied law in the Office of
John W. Edmunds, of New York city,
and at the same time continued his
pursuit of politics, making a special
study of the financial question of 1887,
His next notable speech was at New
Lebanon ON the Sd of October, 1910, in
defense of the Presidents financial
scheme.
Upon being admitted to the bar Til
den opened law office on Pine street,
New York, and in the Polk campaign
in 1874, in connection with John l..
IO'Sullivan, founded a newspaper call
ed the Daily News. In 1S45 he was
sent to the Assembly from New York
city, and while q member OF that body
was elected to convention to remodel
the State Constitution.
The New York World (Democratic),
from which this sketch is complied.
gives 1ilden's position at the outbreak
of the war as follows:
"Till the war came Governor Tilden
made every effort to avert the rebellion.
When his efforts, combined with those
of other prominent patriots, had proved
abOrtive, his convictions of duty were
perfectly decided and clear. They
were to maintain the integrity of our
territory and the supremacy of the con-
stitutiOnal authorities. He had been
educated in the school of Jackson, and
had been diIigent student of the les
sons taught by the notification cOntro-
versy of 1888. He had studied CAREFUL
ly and profoundly the relation of the
Federal and State governments, and OF
the citizens of those governments. He
had thus early formed perfectly clear
and settled opinions, about which his
mind never vacillated. They were the
opinions of jackson, of Van Buren,, of
Wright and of Marcy, with whom,
during most of their public lives, he
had been on terms of personal intimacy.
'During the winter of 1860-61, he at
tended a meeting OF the leading men of
both parties in the city of New York,
to consider what measures were neces-
Sary and practicable to avert an armed
collision between,,what were then term
ed the free and the slave States. To
the North he urged reconciliation and
fOrbearance, appreciating as he did
more clearly than most of those around
him the fearful and disastrous cOuse-
4uences of a civil war. whatever might
prove its ultimate result. TIC the South
he urged Difference to the will of the
and a respect for the provi-
,iOns of the Federal Constitution, with
IN which they would be sure of ade-
Iuate protection for themselves and for
heir property; but he warned them
hat outside of the Constitution they
,ould expect protection for neither.
"When tho war did come Mr.. Tilden
himself with and was the
private adviser of Mr.. Dean Richmond,
hen at the head of the Democratic par
y of this State, and who was accus-
omed on all important questions to
visit Mr.. Tilden in his retirement and
eek his counsel.
"At meeting held at the house Of
General Dix, just after the first call of
President Lincoln for Is, 900 troops, Mr..
Cilden was present and participated in
he discussions which took place. He
hen and there expressed the opinion
hat they were on the eve of q great
var, and maintained that instead of
5 200 troops Mr.. Lincoln should have
allied out at least 50O,O 900, half for i'm
Mediate service and the other half to
70 put in camps of instruction and
rained Tor impending exigencies.
The World gives him credit for
reaking up the ''ring" in New York,
which made him prominent in the line
( reform" end brought him out as
andidate for Governor, to which office
e was elected by plurality of 53,3l5
yer John A. Dix. In his administra-
on of the Office of Governor the chief
laim of his friends is that he has "ar-
ssted completely the system of fraud.
lent expenditure on the canals, which
9 had denounced at the bar of public
pinion."
Mr.. Tilden is five feet ten inches In
eight, and he has what Psychologists
Ill the purely nervous temperament,
18th its usual accompaniment of spare
CURE, blue eyes and fair complexion.
lis hair, originally chestnut, is now
artially silvered with age.