The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1876-09-08

because, as his biography says,
'he was able to discern at that
"early period the importance, in
"this country at least, of a pecu-
"niary independence for the sue
"cessful prosecution of a political
career" and embarked in the
profession Of railway w~recking.
He was a secessiCnists in princi-
pie in 1860, having made public
his views on that question at that
time, in almost the exact language
employed by Calhoun. He SYM
pathized with rebels and the
cause of rebellion from the day of
the firing on Fort Sumter down
to the surrender of Lee at Apo
mattoz. On the Goth day of De
cember, 1863, he committed per-
Jury. In the month Of May last
as Governor of New York he filed
with the Secretary of State a mes
sage or memorandum in which he
declared hat there had been no
appropriations during the year
1876, whereas the fact is that
thirty days before he had signed
a reappropriation bill for a large
sum; and five days before he had
signed reappropriation bill for
another large sum; and on the
very day Of the date of the mes
sage or memorandum he signed
two reappropriation bills for the
aggregate sum of 100000. As
Governor of New York he made
a corrupt agreement with the
agent of one Willard Johnson, a
Democratic canal contractor,
whereby he consented to hold
land did hold) until it should be-
come a law by lapse Of time a
bill then in his hands providing
for the payment Of $4,000 to
Johnson on a contract which he
(Tilden) had in a state paper pre-
viously declared corrupt, and
upon which Johnson had already
received three times the contract
price.
This is the leader, the standard
bearer, of the Democratic party.
What is the party itself? 1t is
the same party that through its
chief, Buchanan, then President,
declared that there was no power
in the Constitution to coerce a
State back into the Union. 1t is
the same party that through other
Of its chiefs, then Cabinent minis
tiers, scattered the navy to the
four corners OF the earth, corrupt
ed the army, and stole money
from the Treasury to prevent the
use of either for the maintenance
Of the integrity Of the Union. 1t
is the same party that through its
chiefs in New York City bowed
the knee to the British Minister,
Lyons, imploring him to counsel
his government to intervene in
behalf of rebels in arms fighting
against the nation. 1t is the same
party that opposed the constitu-
tional amendments comforting
freedom and suffrage and civil
and political rights upon the
black man. 1t IS the same party
that voted the war a failure, and
demanded peace at any and every
sacrifice of national honor. II is
the same party that in the last
Congress discharged manned and
invalided soldiers of the Union
the public service, and APP
pointed in their place soldiers Of
the Conrederacy. 1t is the same
party in the last Congress through
its rebel representatives defend
ed the atrocities Of Anderson
vile, Libby, and Belle Isle, and
through its Northern representa-
tives applauded the defense; and
as these two classes of represen-
tatives clasped hands, with eXult
ing shouts, over the graves of
soldiers brutally tortured,
cruelty starved, and finally in cold
blood assassinated, this same par
~ massacreed citizens at Coushat-
Ia, Colfax, Vicksburg, New Orl-
cans, and Hamburg. 1t is the
sane party that conyicts colored
men of petty olenses, that ii may