The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-07-12

Tup Cincinnati Ga:dte Of yesterday
nnhri,bc. a lis, Of the Committee on Res
oImtiop., as well as Of the sub.committes)
that prepared the famous peace resolu-
ton adopted in the Chicago Convention
tof infamous memory in 1864. The sub.
committee Of the Committee on Resolu-
tions was as follows: Samuel J. Tilden,
Of New York, chairman; Geo. Lunt, Of
Massachusetts; s. S. Marshall, of Illinois;
Geo. B. Smith, Of Wisconsin, and John
b. Weller, Of California. The resolution
reported by this committee has been al,
ready published. but will bear repeating.
1t is as follows:
Resolrtd, That this Convention does ex.
plicitly declare, as the sense OF the
American people, that, after four years Of
failure to restore the Union by the ex.
pertinent Of war, during which, under
the pretenSe OF military necessity or
war nower other than the Constitution,
tue Constitution itself has been dlsre.
garded in every point, and public liberty
and private right alike trodden down,
and the material prosperity OF the coun'
try essentially impaired, justice, hu.
manity, liberty, and the public welfare
demand that an immediate effort be made
for. the cessation OF hostilities, with a
view to an ultimate convention Of all the
States, or other peaceable means, to the
end that, at the earliest possible mo-
ment, peace may be restored on the basis
Of the Federal Union OF the States.
Mr.. Tilden, as chairman OF the sub.
committee, reported this resolution to
the Convention. He made no sign in
doing so to indicate that the resolution
was not in perfect harmony with his views
Of the war, although ii Is now said by
the late editor OF the New York World
that Mr.. Tilden was opposed to the reso'
luton. The country, however, will not
fail to remember that 50 far as Mr.. Til.
den's presence could give force and effect
to the resolution, he gave il then and there
without protest Of any kind, not even a
minority report. We know men by
their associations in politics as we'll AS
10 the other walks Of life. Mr.. Tilden's
associations during the war were not
with Union men, but, on the contrary,
with rebel sympathizers. He did not stand
up with such Democrats as Dix and Dick.
inson, but with Seymour and Vallandig-
ham. No such man deserves to be Presi.
dent, even supposing him to be in othur
respects a much more uneIceplionable
man than Mr.. Tilden. II is sorry pass
indeed il we must, out Of all the good
and true men Of the country, take for
President Of the United States a man who
in 1864 was in league with those who
we're denouncing the war rs failure and
trying to have it stopped in the midst Of
the great campaign then going on in
front OF Richmond.
The American people are not in the
slightest degree indebted to single word
or deed OF Samuel ]. Tilden for the
preservation of the Union. All his in
iuence was against the Union cause. The
Union cause triumphed without las Mr..
Weed lately said) no much AS a good
word from Tilden. Why then should he
be preferred before such man as Hayes
"a man who, as all admit, is honest and
capable, and who during the war was
everything that Samuel j. Tilden was
not, viz: sterling patriot and gallant
soldier.