The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-25

LII OVerWelSneu tne ClhiinS OIL all OJncr rs
pirants for the nomination. To 1t gave
way all other considerations. BY the side
OF this great exploit, 1t mattered not that
in the dark end gloomy days Of the rebel
lion, he was lukewarm in the support of
the government of the country; that he
had declared that the success of the repub-
lican party would be an "offense" to the
country; that he held that the government
had no constitutional or legal power to
coerce a state into submission which had
seeded, or was attempting 10 secede; that,
in 1864, he united in declaring the war to
be failure and in demanding all armistce
so that negotiations might be entered into
for peace on the basis of confederacy of
the states; that he had declared the war
for the suppression of the rebellion an act
of trespass, and every Union soldier tres.
pasfer, and liable as such, at common law,
for the damages sustained by the rebels.
All this mattered not, his bull against the
comet had washed his political record free
from all stains, and left it as pure, spotless
and white as the driven snow.
But there wa3 ono act in tue life Of Sam
uel j. TildeD, which rounds out and CON-
plctes his war record and makes it a per-
feet whole, which commends him especial
| ly to the southern portion of the democrat
| ic party-and the power and brains of the
| party was always in tho south as it is to-
day-but which, we have faith to believe,
had it been known 10 the north, might, I'M
der the two.thirds rule, have resulted IN
defeating his nomination, Under the law
imposing an income tax. Samuel ]. Tilden
certified, under oath, December &c, 1868,
that his "iucomc from all sources in 1862,
was seven thousand one hundred and eight
cen dollars. Within very few weeks, in
a sworn answer to the complaint of the ST.
Louis, Alton and Terre Haute railroad
company, filed in the United Ststes circuit
court, he swears that in October and No
vembcr, 1862, he received twenty thousand
dollars for services rendered that year fol
the bondholders of that road. In othe
words, he swears that his income in on,
matter alone was nearly thirteen thousan,
dollars more than.in 1868, he swore that hi
"iocome from all sources" was. And thi
aside from the income he is known to hav
received from investments and large an,
lucrative professional business.
Such are the fact, as they appear, no
from mere rumor or suspicion, not as man
utactured for campaign purposes, but a
shown by the oath of Samuel j. Tide
himself. Some might call this clashing O
oaths by the ugly name of perjury" an
say that, by bis own showing, he is cor
victed of being a perjurer and a defraude
of the government, but we are inclined t
take more charitable view of it. AS W
have said, it rounds out and completes hi
, war record, and makes 1t perfect whole
The war, Samuel j. Tilden declared, wa
an "illegal and unconst tutional war;" ant
being 50, the income tax, being impose
for the purpose of carrying on the wal
was an "illegal and unconstitutional tax
and, in fact, the democracy so claimed
and, therefore, perjlry could not be pred
Gated on false oath taken in connectio
herewith; neither was resistance to an Ill
constitutional and illegal exaction, d.
{ frauding of the government, but only
q bold and manly assertion of an inherel
: personal right against the arbitrary and III
warranted usurpatons of the minions
Abraham Lincoln.
/ Conceding the correctness of the vie
o taken by Samuel J. Tilden, that the Unite
q States is "federal union" not a "nation
!: that the war was an "ilegal and unconst
!, tutional war;" an act of trespaes, an
e that every Union soldier was a trespasse
i and it would naturally and logically folio
q that the income tax was illegal and unco
: stitutional, that the effort to collect it W
If an act of usurpation, and that 4 false oa
e taken in connection with the assessme
IS thereof was not perjury; and we a
n charitable enough to conceGc that SUI
d was the view taken by Samuel j. Tide
81 that he believed himself justified in ma
5, ing oath to false return, and in Withhold
" ing his income tix-even if it was a lii
It cowardly to make show of partial I
e. turn and partial payment, ard yie.dil
IL even so much as this to the usurpation al
f. arbitrary exaclions of Lincoln's minions.
o. But Samuel J. Tiden and the democl
cy may take either horn of the dilemr
they please. Either his false oath was
act of perjury, and his Withholding of t
tax on his actual income was fraud
., the government; or it was the natural al
logical result of his teaching in referen
), to the nature and powers of the genei
government, and of his declaration tn
:. the war for the suppression of the reb
ID lion was an illegal and unconstitutor
one, mere act of trespass. In eth
event, whichever position he may fina
plant himself upon, we ask, is he a fit o
=, proper person to receive the suffrages
- he American people for the highest off
IN their gift?