Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-01
Tnaen ana buchanan.


The two Dromios Of American pditics
are James Buchanan and Samuel J. Tiden.
Search their records from Alpha to Omega,
and it viii be found they have huntsd in
couples. Two links from the same sausage
string were never more alike. Pahllel
lines were never drawn more exact by the
geometrician than the similtudes Of their
personal and political records. Alike in
attributes and characteristics Of life, alike
in political purposes, methods, and mo-
tiyes. alike in ambitions and ultimate de-
signs. alike in character and composition.
it follows that if Mr.. Tilden is elecsed the
only difference between his Administration
and that of Mr. Buchanan will be that
while the latter was comparatively bad,
the formers viii be superlatively so. Til
den's natural abilities in craft and oppOr-
tunities for greed being greater than those
of Buchanan.
Look at the parallel. Buchanan was an
old, wOrn-Out, selfish bachelor. So is Til
den. Buchanan did profess to have loved
a woman when he was young and mani
tested feminine fondness when be was
old, but no woman ever looked upon him
and wished that Heaven had made her such
a man The aversion to the other sex is so
strong in Tilden's selfish, cold, and egotis-
teal composition that he has gone from in-
fancy almost into second childhood un-
touched by the common passion OF all hu-
manity. Wrapped up in himself, worship
ing at the alter Of Mammon, feeding upon
the greed Of miserly acquisition, deadened
to all the promnptigs of sexual affection,
DO woman will miss him when he is gone,
and no child will bear his name or cherish
his memory. The absence Of the common
instinct Of humankind fitted these two men
for treason, stratagems, and spolIs, and
the issue of their lives shows how complete
" they realized this fitness.
Roth these men having no vile or 1ami-
" to live for, devoted themselves to the
HIfIlment of their own selfish ambition.
Buchanan lived for politics; Tilden has
lived for money. Buchanan was satisfied
with the reputation and notoriety he could
make out of politics. Tilden has used pol
itics to make money by manipulating legis-
lation to carry out his railroad jobs and
other corrupt schemes for personal aggran
dizement. Both these men made the same
loud and empty promises OF reform. Bu-
chanan. like iilden, warranted an mcor-
ruptable Administration. Tilden. like Bu
chanan. promises to purify politics; and
both of them have rehearsed the same
twaddle about elevating the civil service.
Buchanan was an intensely sectional man
in his feelings. So is Tilden. His inter
ests and sympathies were south of Mason &
Dixon's line, So are Tilden's. He was
State-Sovereignty advocate and an intense
Copperhead. So is Tilden. His subser-
viency to the south before the War was
precisely that of Tilden during the war.
And as soon as Buchanan was elected
he began playing into the hands of
plotting Rebels and encouraging them. He
laid down the doctrine, and insisted upon
it, that the Government had no right to CO.
cree sovereign States or make war upon
them in the event of their secession from
the Union, and but for him the attempt
never would have been made. When he
found they were going, he helped them.
He scattered the regular army as much as
possible in inconvenient localities, where it
would be powerless to prevent secession.
He sent the army officers known to be
southern sympathiZers where they could
help the South. He left the southern forts
either stripped of resources for defence or
commanded by southern officers SO that
they could easily be captured, with the ex-
eeption of Sumter, where ne mistook his
man. He shifted arms and war material
from the North to the South, and dispatch
ed the navy upon long cruises so that it
should not stand in the way or return be-
fore the Rebellion was fairly launched.
Had Tilden been President instead OF Bu-
ehanan he would have done the same,-
perhaps would have been even more auda-
cious in aiding the South, The Democrats
of Pennsylvania were never so sGhservient
to the South as those Of New York, and
Tilden was brought up in district Of that
State which never manifested any loyalty
to the Union. He served as politician in
New York City when the Democrats were
disloyal almost to a man, He nevertheless,
not being President, did what he could ito
aid the South. He refused to participate
in meetings called to sympathize with the
soldiers and express loyalty to the Union,
He opposed the suppression of the Rebel
lion, the enlistment of soldiers, the eontri-
button Of money, He made public speeches
against the further prosecution Of the War.
He was an open sympRthizer with Valland-
igham, He was a member of that infam-
ons New York society which flooded the
country with reasonable documents in the
very darkest hour Of its peril. He was
member of the Committee in the Democrat
ic National Convention that framed the res
olution declaring the War failure and de- |
its cessation. And now he is |
making just the same false pretenses of |
Unlenism, when be finds his War recod |
confronting his Presidential aspirations |
that Buchanan did,
The wise men of Greece had saying that
the first time a people we're betrayed, the |
betrayeF was to blame. The second time,
themselves we're to blame. The people of |
the United States were taken unawares
when James Buchanan betrayed them. |
They will have only themselves to blame if |
they now allow themselves to be betrayed |
by Tldea, who. will take up the corrup-
tions and treaehery of Buchanan where the |
latter left off. ForewErned should be fore
armed. fi ss sr.. -.-. t.-.,-,