New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-29

serving character of Mr.. Buchanan, there
can be little doubt but the Confederacy
might have been an urresisted success had
he continued in Office another year.
The character Of Mr.. Tilden seems, so
far as we may gather, the exact counter
part Of the last Democratic President.
He is charged with indecision upon the
questions of tariff and finance. Heseems
to have been the political friend of
Tweed, and to have accepted the suffrage
frauds by which the election Of 1858 was
said by Horace Greeley to have been
counted in against General Grant; yet he
seems to have turned States evidence
| agains: Tweed in 1872, and claims the po-
litical reward Of having captured pal
from whom in former years he had de-
rived such important cooperation. In
respect to the war, he is charged with
| having regarded it rs failure during its
progress. While lie lauds the Union
| since its preservation. he holds those who
defended its existence responsible for
| having spent great deal more money for
that purpose than the Union was worth.
Before the war Mr. Tilden had declared
that though the trainers Of The constitu-
! ton
| Recognized no right of constitutional Sc
| cession, they leJt reroluti0n organized tchen
| II should be demanded By the public opinion
| Of q State; left il cith po,rti' TO snap the tie
| Of confederation as a nation might break
| q treaty. and 10 repel coercion as q nation
might repel i,.casion. They caused US to
depend. III great measure, upon the pub
| lie opinion of the States, in order to main
| tain a contederated union. They intended
| to make it necessary for Us, in every reason
| able extent to respect that public letter I'D
dressed to the Hon. William Kent caad;
dnte for eIector on The Democratic ticket for
the State Of Ne,c Yorh.
That is if the States chose to obey the
law they could DO SO, if they did not they
could 'repel coercion" and the public
opinion Of the States could compel obed-
fence CT not Just as indifference or SYM
pathy might determine. Mr. Tilden, like
Mr.. Buchanan, did no. deem it an obliga-
ton of the government to preserve the
Union by enforcing its laws. It is true
Mr.. Buchanan deemed it q duty to inter-
tere with an expedition to Utah, "to keep
down arebellion on the free soil territory
Of Kansas, but this obligation did not ex-
tend further to the States in secession
against the Union.
The general resemblance in the mental
traits and political morals of Buchanan
and Tilden must be strong to any who
will compare, after the manner of
Plutarch, these two great contemporaries
There is theory that certain moral and
physical conformity may be found be-
tween the eyesight and ethics of cock
eyed people. We expressly decline to
commit ourselves to the theory that in all
cases of congenital obliquity Of vision
there is an antipathy to think straight, or
see straight. There are some who con-
tend that where the rays of truth or light
fall upon the pia mater or retina Of a
person afflicted with cockeye or converg.
ent strabismus, these rays are refracted
and reflected with precisely the same ir-
regularity from the one surface as from
the other.
We take stock in 20 such theories, but
can testify that while the pictorial pre-
seItation of Mr.. Buchanan represents that
statesman as bringing his off eye to bear
upon an object like swivel or like the
eye of parrot, the engraved portrait of
Mr.. Samuel Tilden indicates similar
obliquity and indirectness Of vision. In
like manner, while the political reflections
Of Mr.. Buchanan seemed crooked and in
distinct, those of Mr.. Samuel Tilden pre-
sent the same equivocal expressions. We
feel in both cases like the man holding
the pole for the cocl,-eyed man
to chop, disposed to ask whether
they mean to "chop where they look or
whether they mean to act as they write. We
should feel in great uncertainty as to what
may befall US should Mr.. Tilden be il
trusted with the political chop az. He
may cut the Gordian knot Of an insurrec-
ton or sever the carotid OF the constitu-
ton. Regarding, then, the danger which
once arose from the eQuivocal indecision
of Buchanan. We are Of opinion that it is
best not to take the risk OF his political
twin in Samuel Tilden.