Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-09-28

A change is your cry. Yes. A change!
Is mine. But do You not with me, in
sist OH a change that opens the pros.
pect of lasting improvement! Is a
change of parties all you want, what
ever the consequence If you are in
earnest You will want more; you will
want change in the very being, in
the nature Of the parties. That is tho
great thing ncedful. But in the sue
cess of Hayes, not that Of Tillen, will
you find it. Can you Doubt, then,
that 4 change to Hayes will lie great
er, much more Wholesome change than
that to Tilden? What is 4 change to
Tiltlen! A change from Republican
to Democratic spoils politics. What
is i Change to Hayes? 4 change from
the spOilS system to true reform of
the civil service and the overthrow of
machine politics. That il the predic-
ton that make. and with confidence
I look into the future to see it veri.
lied. Can the duty Of sincere friends
of reform he doubtful? lat least SEQ
mine as clearly us ever, and to the
ASoV VIII lCAAOAN Ats
republican
Tildc - Il. cord.
From Harper's Weekly. Sept. l6.
Mr.. Tilden's ''position In respect to
the war WAS never open to the slight.
est douht.' 1t certainly WAS not.
In 1854 lie said to Preston King that
the formation of the Republican party
in opposition to the slave oligarchy
':would either be a political ll"ntler,
or it would be Il political crime. in ere.
;.ting u conflict in which the govern
mrnt would probably perish
In October, 1860, he wrote to vii.
liam Kent that the Trainers Of the Con-
slitution 'srccoSnized no right of con.
stitutiOnu secession. but they left rev.
0lution organized when it should be
demanded by the public opinion of a
Statc.-left it with power to snap the
tie Of confederation. us 4 nation might
break i treaty, and to rcpel coercion,
us Il nation might rrptl INVASION"
In February, 1861, he declared at
the Twetl,llc Hall Convention that che
for one would resist, under any and
I'LL circnmst tancps, the use Of force to
coercc the South into the Union.''
In April. 1861. lie refused to sign 4
simple patriotic call for II public meet
ing in New York upon the fall Of Sum.
ter.
In February, 1868, he was one of
dozen of the EXTREMIST Copperhca,ls
i'll the city OF New York, who formed
il society to publish and ditfuse, in the
darkest hour of the war, the most
virmlent ''Copprrhead' speechrs and
prO'sl;avery documents mich was do
ing the work of the rebellion us effec-
t,nslly as shipping arms and ammuni-
ton to the rebels. This society of
Mr.. Tillens published among other
things. u speech Of James Brooks, in
which he says that Mr.. Lincoln's s proc.
llmation of September, 1862, ''Seems
to contemplate the exciting Of the
slaves to the destruction not only of
their masters. but of women and child.
rem 1t published 4 speech of Mr..
Puyh in which he declared that 'the
war might have been avoided.
ha'l not Abraham Lincoln and tho
leaders Of the Republican party refused
-coLstantly, pcrsistantly, stubbornly,
refused-;lny terms whatever.
We have 10 governor in truth We
have only i M ing. II l am
arrested, us may be to morrow or he.
fore s'mlown. ami dragged III the pres
rnce OF II military commission us Val
lan'ligi,.m WAS, will you act T. It
published Il speech of Richard O'G.r-
man when lloratio Seymour wis gov
error of New York, and the rebels
hoped he would try to withdraw tho
State from the war. Mr.. O'GOrman
said. and Mr.. Tilslen's society pub
Iishesl and diiTused his words, IL fear
much that, under tile pretext OF re.
storing the Union. VIC are strengthen.
III. the hands Of those whose policy
tend to destroy Our liberties. DO You
ask what. then. is to he done? I say
the first thing to he done is to arm the
State Of New York. Let Our
soldiers be drilled, then, and not
merely for W.radeS in the streets, but
| in camps OF instruction. and let them
I've prepred as men to defend the
rights Of our State. Although
the Union may fall. liberty may be
preserved, and the State may be SOW
treign yet. Let us remember
that each State in it's inherent sover-
eighty is independent in itself. Then
we are for the Union as long Us it can
he slprorteu.' This is what Mr.. Til.
den and his society were publishing
and .litfus;ng to cheer tho soldiers in
the field and strengthen the national
patriotic purpose 1T home in the most
critical moment Of the struggle. Mr..
Marble said truly that Mr.. Tilden s
'slwsition in respect to the war was
never open to the slightest Gonbt.' 1t
certainly was not, any more than that
of Fernando Wood, V:lllandi.llam, OK
jefferson avis.
In August, 1864. Mr.. Til'len was tho
New York member of the platform
committee Of tie Chicago Democratic
Convention, which reported, without
dissent, Il resolution denouncing the
war us i. failure and demanding u ces-
s;.tiOn of hostilities.
These facts are nndcnial,le; and
whoever may he the Nathan murderer,
us the Boston Herald humOrO,lsly suS'
gpsts, these facts establish that Slr.
Tilden gave his money. his time, his
influence by word and pen, to the cause
Of the Rebellion.
Gen Crook Kills Tw" or Three Hundred In
dians.
| a report from Fort Sully hy way o1
Sioux City, Sept. 18Th, contains tht
following intelligence:
"lleavy firing was heard on the riv
er ten miles below here last Tuesday
apparently in tho direction of tn