Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-07-08
sbepbsrSstown Register.
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eATURDAY.........JILY 9, 1870.
sketches Of the DeROcratic.COn-
seryntive Candidates.
SAMUEL J. TlLDEN.

IebaDOn,ln the county Oh Columoia anu
State of New York, in the year 1914
the year which ruined the fortunes OF
the great Napoleon. One of his ances-
tore, Nathaniel 1ilden, was mayor Of
the city of Tenterden, Kent, England,
in 1928. Governor Tilden's grandiath-
er, John Tilden, settled in Columbia
c0ahty. The governors mother was
descended from VIM. jones, lieutenant
Governor of the colony Of New Haven,
who, in all the histories of Connecticut,
is represented to have been the son Of
Col John Jones, one of the regicide
judges Of Charles l., who is said to
have married sister of Oliver Crom-
well and a cousin of John Hampden.
The governors father, farmer and
merchant of New Lebanon, was man
q notable Judgment and practical sense
and the accepted oracle Of the county
upon all matters OF public concern while
his opinion was also eagerly sought and
justly valued by all his neighbors, but
by none more than by the late Presi-
dent Van Buren,, who, till his death was
one OF his most cherished intimate and
personal friends. Mr. Tilden had not
been lon. at Yale College before his
health gave way and obliged him to
leave. After some rest he was enabled
10 resume his studies, and in 1884 en-
tered the University OF New York,
where he completed his academic edu-
cation. lie then entered the law office
of the late John w. Edmunds, in the
city of New York, where he enjoyed
peculiar facilities for the prosecution OF
his favorite studies of law and politics.
Upon his admission TO the bar Mr. Til
den, opened an Office in Pine street, in
the city of New York. In 1914, in an
,icipation and preparation for the cleo
ton which resulted in making James
IL. Polk President and Silas Wright
Governor of the State of New York,
Tildcn, in connection John l.. O'Sulll-
van; founded the newspaper called the
Daily News. In the fall of lS45 he
was sent TO the Assembly from the city
of New York, and while member of
that body was elected TO the Conven-
ton for the remodelng of the consti-
tuition of the State, which was to COM
mence its sessions a few weeks after the
Legislature adjourned. In both of these
bodies Mr.. Tilden was conspicuous
authority.
Mr.. Tilden was q remarkable success
as a lawyer, and since the Year 1855 it
is safe to say that more than half the
great railway corporations north Of the
Ohio and between the Hudson and
Missouri rivers have been at some time
his clients. The general mistortunes
which overlook many of these roads
between 1855 and 1860 called for some
comprehensive plan tor relief. 1t was
here that his legal attainments, his I'M
surpassed skill rs financier, his uulim-
tied capacity for concentrated labor,
his constantly increasing weight OF
character and personal influence found
full activity, and resulted in the organi-
cation of the larger portion of the great
network of railways, by which the
rights of all parties were equitably pro
,ec,ed, wasting litigation avoided, and
condition Of great depression and
dependency in railway property re-
placed by an unexampled prosperity.
Till the war came Governor Tilden
made every effort to avert the rebellion.
When his efforts, combined with those
of other prominent patriots, bad proved
abor,iye, his convictions of duty were
perfectly decided and clear. They were
10 maintain the integrity of our terrific
nv and the supremacy of the constitu-
tional authorities.
During the winter Of 1860 81 he at
tended a meeting of the leading men of
both parties in the city Of New York
to consider what measures were neces-
sary and practicable to avert an armed
collision between what were then term
ed the free and the slave states. TO
the North he urged reconciliation and
forbearance, approaching as he did more
clearly than most of those around him
the fearful and disastrous consequence
Of civil war, whatever might prove its
ultimate result. 10 the South he urged
a Difference TO the will of the majority
and respect for the provisions of the
federal Constitution, within which they
would be sure of adequate protection
for themselves and for their property.
THOMAS \. HENDRICKS.
Gov. Hendricks, was born in Musk
ineham county, Ohio, on the 9TH of Sep
TENDER, 1915, and his father removed tho
family to Shelby county, Indiana, when
the Governor was but three years old,
30 that lie belongs to both those States,
in which, as we'll as in the whole coun-
try, he is of commanding respect and in
t,nence. He had the advantage of lib
eral education. and graduated from col
lege in lS4l. In lS43 he graduated at
law in Chambersburg, Pa, and at once
returued to Indiana, where he built up
for himself lucrative practice OF his
profession, in which he is remarkable
for legal lore, eloquence and astuteness.
lie served in succession as member OF
the Indiana Legislature, the State con-
s,i,u,ional convention, Congress and the
United States Senate. He was also COM
missioner of the general land office. and
j. now Governor of Indiana. While in
the Senate he held high rauk among the
Senators for his answering devotion to
the principles of his party and the best
interests OF all the people, particularly
being distinguished for the boldneSs and