Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-23

the enforced appointment OF men on
| committees from their living IN the
| same community and ftom belOr giDg 10
| the same party. But the one man stood
| in the community above and beyond
suspicion, aud the other was always an
object of hatred, and filally OF detesta-
| ton.
I DEFY THE GENTLEMEN To LAY THEIR
HANDS UPON a DISHONEST DOLLAR
in the possession OF Samuel ]. TiIdeu.
The people whom he served are his
friends to-day, and his best friends,
IL is the service which no ZEN
dered to them that will, not
withstandipg the insinuations Of the
gentleman from Iowa, give him tbs
vote OF those great western States
within whose borders he reconstructed
high ways which are to them to-day the
arteries OF commerce, and blessings
whose value cannot be prOL erly estima-
ted. Through the whole of his remark
able career he has been the wisest of
men; he has been the trdest OF friends;
he has been the most jealous and ear
nest OF patriots. He is to-day the wisest,
the most accomplished statesman in the
land, and be will, by tbs blessing of
God, be one of the greatest-perhsIs the
greatest-of Presidents Of the United
States, because he will have the oppOr-
tunity to rescue this government from
the hands Of the incompetent and dis
honest men who have controlled it SO
long and have made 1t reprOach in the
eyes of the civilized world. TGreat ap-
plsuse on the Democratic side.
MANTON MARBLES LETTER.
New York Tribune.1
NEW LEBANON n Y Auoust IL
To Hon. A. s. Hewitt, House OF Representa-
tives, Washington:
Your telegram received aid shown to
me. Although Mr.. Tilden was for the
ten years previous to the war and during
the war in private life, his position in re-
spect to the war was never open to the
slightest doubt. He had been early edu.
Gated to condemn the doctrines of nuiIi-
fication and secession. He had fOTeseen
the danger Of civil Wsr when many de-
rided it, and did all he could TO avoid it;
but when it arrived he took an open and
decided stand in support of the govern
ment, enforcing its Jurisdiction, aud
avertipg dismemberment of the c0un-
try. He attended the nesting Of the
twentieth Of April, 1861, and again on
the twenty. second Of April the meetir G
of the members OF the New York bar.
He soon after addressed regiment set
ting out for the front. He attended The
presentation of cOlors to the Seventy
ninth Highlanders; and afterWard. af-
forded that regiment special aid and
service, to say nothing OF contributions
of money elsewhere. His attitude
throughout the wal was that of a man
who, disappearing of the scstteTation
military management and the iuflation
financial policy adopted by the admin
istratiOn because they tended to prolong
the war aud increase its sacrifices, new
ertheles5 sustained the arm of the gov
eminent. Every utterance of his during
the whole war was in accord with his
position. Every statement to the con-
trary about any single act or expression
is totally false. Some of his speeches /
heard myself, particularly great speech
which he made before the New York
delegation at the Chicago Democratic
convention Of 1854. [ was the bearer of
a message from him to General MiClel-
Ian advising him to disc ard the ohiec-
tionable words in the platform, which
were also discarded in the eubsequent
platform of the New York State Demo-
cratic convention. l have possession OF
the original manuscript Of declaration
which he prepared In October, 1862 to
be used to define the position Of the New
York Democracy-the position which
he thought it ought to take, and which
it did take. select this from among
many expressions for its brevity. Il is
as fIlloWs:
"And now If my voice could reach
the southern people through the journals
OF our metropolis, would say TO them
that in no event can the triumph of the |
Conservative sentiment OF New York in |
tho nlaafinn fn mir
either now or hereafter. Its true import |
is restoration, north and south, of th4t |
constitution which had secured every |
right, and under whose shelter ali had |
been happy and prosperous until you |
madly fed from its protection. It was |
your act which begun this calamitOus |
civil war. 1t was your act which diss. |
bled us as we are now disabled from |
shaping the policy or limiting the OBJ |
jects of that war. Loyalty as we main |
tain your rights will we maintain the |
right Of the government. We will not |
strike down its arm as long as yours is |
lifted against it. That noblest and great |
est work Of our wise ancestors is not des-
tined to perish. We intend to rear once |
more upon the old and firm foundations |
its shattered columns, and to carry them
higher toward the eternal skies. II the
Olu 1dA waves IL Tie hSINSlc grasp VI
frantic but feeble faction to whom you /
and not we abandoned it; we, whose COur-
age you have tried when we stood I'M
moved between fansticism and folly |
from the north and the south alike, will |
once more bear it onward and sflost IN
til it is again planted upon the towers OF
the constitution, invincible by domestic
as by foreign enemies. Within the
Union we will give you the constitution |
you profess to revere, renewed with fresh
guarantees of equal rights and equal
safety. We will give you everything
that local self-government demands;
every thing that common ancestry of
glory-everything that national frater-
nifty or christian fellowship requires;
but to dissolve the Federal bond be-
tween these States, to dismember our
country, whoever else consents We will
not. No, never, never, never"
MANTON MARBLE.
DIX AS A sECEssIONIsT.
Rochester UnfAn and Advertiser.I