The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-08-12
STOP THAT LYING.

STOP THAT LYING.
Mr.. Charles Blanchard, in his speech at the
republican ratification meeting on Tuesday
evening, is reported by the Ottawa organ of
the whisky thieves as saying:
While HAYES responded to the call of his
country and manifested his patriotism by
continuous service in the army, Tilden was
| in New York city, pracucing law and dis
couraging by his influence and his votes, the
efforts put forth by the friends OF the nation
10 suppress the rebellion
This is a shameful falsehood, unsupported
by word of evidence, and contradicted by
Tilden's whole character and history. In the
first place TIlden was always an anti'slavery
man and never a friend of the southern slave
oligarchy" In earlier days he belonged to
the wing of New York democrats known as
"barn burners In 1S4S he was "free.soil-
err in favor of the Wilmot provlso, and a
member OF the Buffalo convention that mona
mated Van Buren, against Cass. When the
war broke out in 1861 he had for thirteen
years been wholly ont OF politics, pursuing
his legal profession in New York city He
WAS VIII UOOllJ h'liNo th"' Nv
terly precluded his being soldier, (unlike
Mr.. Blanchard and the other eloquent stay al
home patriots at the meeting on Tuesday
evening but when Sumter was fired upon
and Lincoln had called for $1,000 volunteers
Mr.. Tilden, with some 25 other leading pro-
fessiona, business and financial men of New
York city, was invited by the government &c
Washington to advise as to the best methods
of conducting the war AT that conference
Mr.. Tilden 1--WE quote from the New York
Euentng Post of Nay 25h, 1876 put on re
cord these memorable words:
You have no right to expect great mill
tary genius to come to your assistance. They
only appear once IN two or three centuries
You will probably have to depend upon the
average military talent of the country I'm
der such circumstances your only course is
to avail yourself of your numerical strength
and your superior military resources result
ing from your great progress IN Industrial
arts and your greater producing capacities
You must have reserves and concentrate your
forces on decisive points, and overwhelm
your adversaries by dispropoTtionate NUM-
bers and reserves.
And further along Mr.. Tilden urged the
President at once to call 100000 volunteers
trusting to congress- of which an extra session
had then been called, to legalze the act. The
President lacked nerve to take the advice
but over a year afterwards Secretary Came
ron had the grace TO write to Tilden, &C
knowledging the wisdom Of his advice, anC
regretting that he had been unable to secure
its adoption. And this is the man whom
these lusty home-guards on Tuesday evening
had the cheek to denounce as an anti-wal
man, a rebel sympathizer, &c!
Another dirty lie was made big use of a
! the same meeting, to-wit, that Tilden was the
author of the resolution of the Democratic
National Convention of 1864, declaring thC
war failure. In the first place it is liz
that Tilden was the author Of the resolution
referred to, and secondly it is bigger Ii,
that any such resolution was adopted by tina
convention. That convention met in 1864
after the emancipation proclamation mac
been issued, after the taking of Nicksburg
the battle of Gettysburg, and the brillian
victory of Lookout Mountain and Mission
Ridge. Yet the war was not ended nor wa:
the Union restored The resolution of the
Democratic convention of 1864, now 80 gross
| ly belied and perverted, stated that fact-pal
pable, indisputable and self.evident as it wa
no more and no less-and any poplnja!
orator who asserts that it went further and IL
general or specific terms-directly or indi
ectly-declared the war, in It's conduct, man
agement or achievements, a failure, is eithe
ignorantly or deslgnedly falsiker. Tit
democratic party, during and since the war
has doubtless been guilty of many blunder'
and folles, and we do not pretend to defend
its record through thick and thin" but the
resolution of 1864 was justified by the fact:
at the time, and is censurable only by
scoundrcly perversion of its plain meaning.