Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-06-30

ed to make it unanimous. Indiana sec
Onded PennSylvanla'S motion to make The
nomination unanimous. Adopted.
NOMINATION oF.HENDRICKs.
ST. LOUIS, JUNE 29.-This morning in.
the Convention Illinois nominated Hem
bricks of Ind. for Vice President. He was
withdrawn by Mcdonald of Ind., but was
again put in nomination and unanimously
THE RESPONSE IN THE COUNTRY.
In New York Tilden's nomination was
received with great rejoicing.
One hundred guns were fired at Rich
mond, Va.
In Indiana, Ohio, and other States there
was great rejoicing.
In Baltimore 100 guns were fired.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the LIST ballot Virginia's vote, stood
Tilden II, Hendricks 1, Bayard 4. On the
I'd it was unanimous for Tilden. An "En-
quirer'' telegram says:
A Stormy scene was caused by the pre-
sentation of the minority report denounc-
ing the whole resumption act. All the
Virginia delegation, except Colonel Har-
man, voted against the amendment to the
financial feature and FOR the majority re-
port.
While the Convention was in session B..
GratZ Brown was called out at the sugges-
ton of MIR. Doolittle to give the views of
the Liberals in the present campaign. He
said he sympathized entirely and cordially
in efforts to adjust all minor differences,
To win tio1ypt for fha
liberals. He protested that they should be
found in the front of the coming fight
Applause. They want reform and relief
and he hoped the convention would put out
platform and candidates that would I'M
miStakably embrace those ideas.
SKETCH OF THE GREAT REFoRMER.
Samuel ]. Tilden is the present Cover
nor of New York, to which position he
was elected in 1874 by a plurality of $4,000
votes, over Gen. Dix, one of the most pop
ular Republicans, and Federal General
who had rendered distinguished services
to the country. Mr.. Tilden is now in the
sixty third year of his age. He is five feet
ten inches in height, and he has what
psychologists call the purely nervous tenn
permanent, with it's usual accompaniment
Of spare figure, blue eyes and fair complex
ion. His hair, originally chestnut, is now
partially silvered with age. He was born
in New Lebanon, Columbia county, New
Y ork, in 1914. His father. Mr.. Elan Til
den, was farmer and merchant, and a
man of local influence. Young Tilden
commenced his collegiate studies at Yale,
and completed them at the University of
New York. All the associations ofS his
youth we're among the most eminent Dem
ocrats of New York, including Governor
Marcy, Governor Hoffman, Governor
Iompklns, Silas wright, and Chancellor
Livingston. In 1914 he established the
New Y ork News" and edited it, and was
mainly instrumental in carrying the State
for James K. Polk In 1916 he was elected
to the General Assembly, and it was then
his political career may be said to have be-
gun. The N. Y. ''World'' gives the fol-
lowing sketch of him:
HIS WAR RECORD.
Till the war came Governor Tilden made
every effort to avert the rebellion. When
his efforts, combined with those of othe
prominent patriots, had proved abortive,
his convictions of duty were perfectly deci:
ded and clear. They were to maintain the
integrity OF our territory and the suprema-
cy of the constitutional authorities. He had
been educated in the schoolof Jackson, and
had been a diligent student of the lessons
taught by the notification controversy of
1888. He had studied carefully and pro-
foundly 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 in
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 1s60-6l no attended
meeting of the leading men of both par
ties in the city of New Y ork, to consider
What measures were necessary and practi
cable to avert an armed collision between
what were then termed the free and the
slave States. TO the North he urged re-
Cancellation and forbearance, approaching
as he did more clearly than most of those
around him the fearful and disastrous con-
SEQUENCES of a civil war, whatever might
prove its ultimate result. To the South he
urged Difference to the will of the major.
ity and a respect for the provisions of the
Federal constitution, within which they
would be sure of adequate protection for
themselves and for their property: but he
warned them that outside of the Constitu-
ton they could expect protection for Meth
er.
When the war did come Mr.. Tilden as
sociated himself with and was the private
adviser OF Mr.. Dean Richmond, then at the
head of the Democratic party Of this State
and who was accustomed Oh all important
questions to visit Mr. Tilden in his retire
ment and seek his counsel.
At meeting held at the house of Cen
eral Dix, just after the first call of Presi-
dent Lincoln for $4,000 troops, MI. Tilden
was present and participated in the discus
sions which took place. He then and there
expressed the. opinion that they were on
the eye OF a, great var, and maintained
that instead OF $4,000 troops Mr.. Lincoln
should have called out at least 100000,
half for immediate service and the other
half to be put in camps of instruction and
trained for impending eXigencies.
10 Secretary Chase and his friends Mr..
Tilden insisted that the war ought to be
carried on under a system of sound finance
which he did not doubt the people would
cheerfully sustain if the Government would
have the courage to propose it. At later
period of the war he was invited by the
at Washington to give his ad-
vice as to the best methods for its further
conduct. He said to the Secretary of War:
"You have no right to expect a great mil
itary genius to come to your assistance
They only appear once in two or three cen
turtles. You will probably have to depend
upon the average military talent of the
country. Under such circumstances your
only course is to avail yourselves of your
numerical strength and your superior
military resources resulting from your
greater progress in industrial arts and
your greater producing capacities. You
must have reserves and concentrate your
forces on decisive points, and overwhelm
yonr adverSaries by disproportionate num-
bers and reserves
His advice was not taken, but he had the
satisfaction. within a year after it was
given, of hearing the Secretary of War &C.
its wisdom and lament his ina
bility to secure it's adoption.