The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1876-11-02
AN EmIhatio Letter From the Next
! - President.

o. nor %jldeu hss addressed to q
9 Hon. Abram1 s, Hewitt alcttor date
u to-day, declaring 1iis HosiI4'h1, T:
IL regard to Southern clain,s.
f%aUotcs t,ie fourteenth a,nena.-o -oel
i OF %:sie cotistit1tion, and points /
, 10 faNy>t that it &sss been repeated
o,,,>> =, rvedby tha Democratic Stat
Gop: @ppis 'oes Of the Solth, and wa
~1nr,n,1', o1on4n5 80 III ~ u :lsc platform
the BE, Democrntic &c" r., Eatio4+sHi Sonve, 20 We,
ton, which declarco 1T to eth,
versally respected as o ''l''l B. ~
ment. Governor Tildel., atte.
citing his own public declara. 'on'
on tho subject previously mad.,
says:
Should [ be elected President, tho
provisions of the fourteenth amend
ment will, so far as depends on me,
be maintained, executed and OIL
forced in perfect and absolute good
faith. No rebel debt will be as.
sumed or paid, no claim for loss or
emancipation of any slave will be
allowed; no claim for loss or dam
age incurred by disloyal persons,
arising from the late war, whether
covered by the fourteenth amend
ment or not, will he recognized or
paid. The cotton tax will not be
refunded. I shall deem it my duty
to veto every bill providing for tho
assumption OF payment of any suoh
debts, losses, damages, claims, or
for refunding any such tax. Tho
danger to the national treasury is
not from claimants who aided tho
rebellion, but from claims of persons
residing in the Southern States, or
having property in those States,
who were or pretended to be, or
who, for the sake Of aiding their
claims, now pretend to have been,
loyal to the government of the
Union. Such claims, even of loyal
PERSONS when they arise from acts
caused by tho operations of war,
have been disallowod by the public
law of civilized nations, condemned
by the adjudications of the Supreme
Court of the United States, and only
find any status by force of specific
Legislation Of Congress. These
claims have become stale, and often
tainted with fraud; they are nearly
always owned in whole or in part by
claim agents, by spectators or
lobbyists, who have no equity
against tax payers or tho public.
They should in all cases be scru-
tinized with jealous care. The ca.
lamities 10 individuals which wcro
inflicted by the late war are, for tho
most part, irreparable. The gov.
eminent cannot recall to life tho
millions of our youth who went to
an untimely grave, nor compensate
the suffering and sorrow of their
relatives and friends. It ca hot read
just between individuals tho bur
dens of taxation hitherto borne or
of debts incurred by sustaining tho
government, which are yet to be
paid. 1t cannot apportion anew
among our citizens the changes or
losses incident to military opera
tions, or resulting in every variety Of
form from it's measures for main.
tanning it's own existence. 1t has no
safe general rule but to let bygoncs
be bygones, to turn from the dead
past to new and II better future,
and, on that basis, to assure peace,
reconciliation and fraternity be-
tween all sections, classes and races
of our people, to the ond that all tho
springs of our productive industries
may be quickened and II now pros
perlty created, in which the evils Of
the pnst shall be forgotten.
SAMUEL j. TILDEN.
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