The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-31
HEWITT'S FALSEROODS.

TiIden's War RecOrd-Hewitt's Yarn About
Ti1den's Aiding the Tammany Regim emit
a Lie out of Whole CIOth-Just What Til
den Did Do.
The statement of Abram s. Hewitt that
Samuel j. Tilden subscribed toward the organ
ization of the Tammany regiment during the
war is fabrication out of whole cloth, and MIR.
Hewitt should have known that it had no
foundation in fact. The documents of the
Union Defense Committee" which was
started in that city at the outbreak of the war
for the purpose of equipping regiments for &C
tive service show that the entire cost of send
ing the Tammany and three other New York
regiments to the front was betrayed aoholly by
the committee. It was, therefore, unfortunate
for Mr.. Hewitt to have selected the Tammany
regiment as the one to which, as he stated,
without the slightest foundation, Tilden gave
subscription, when the records show that ne
never gave even one cent to the organization.
These facts do not admit of dispute They
have passed into history. The Union Defense
Committee of New York, and it's action IN re-
gard to regiments from this city, are matters OF
record in the Government offices at Washing
ton. On page fifty-four of the report of this
committee issued in 1862, we find that they
paid out the following sums, being the aohOte
cost of equipping the regiments
Tammany Regiment ...... .$4I, 40 90
Mozart Regiment. ..................... oI'O9S %
Garibaldi Guards. I.,od!.oo
1CIO"A'OO
The average cost of equipping each of these
regiments was $52, .88. The committee then
says:
s'These acre the only regiments of cbich the
ENTIRE cost aoas betrayed by the U1alon Defense
Committee. EUery article of clothlng and
equipment eods furnished by the committee, to-
qetter 2Uitt YdtiOnS for almost thousand men
each for O. period of taoo months"
Irrespective of these facts it was rather un-
fortunate for Mr.. Hewitt to open the "war
record" of Tilden in the House of Representa-
tives. Of the millions of official and other
documents published during the war; not one
has yet been found showing that Tflden had
given counsel or money or word OF encourage
ment in favor of perpetuating the Union.
There is one, however, to be found
one under his own signature in which he
actually proposed to let the South establish
an independent nation before a shot was
fired-in the hope that she could make
treaty of peace with the North for common
defense. Samuel J. Tilden was never known
to do anything to help on the war, either by
assisting the soldiers themselves or by minis
tering TO their families during their absence
or after their deaths. On the contrary. he is
known to have refused assistance on many oc-
casions. For the sake of example the follow
ing well-authenticated case may be stated:
Early in the war young man OF excellent
family and superior character and attainments
was DESTROYS of raising company. He waited
upon Mr.. Tilden, with whom he had an &C
quaintance, and asked him to give him letter
OF recommendation to certain State officials.
Mr.. Tilden's reply was in substance as fol-
lows: tsYoung man, you need not come to
me for any such letter of recommendation !;
this war is an outrage, and / will lend no as
sistance whatever to it's prosecution" .--NeaC
York Times.