The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-07-07
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ny Tue nullihcatiOn controversy of 1893 He
had studied carefully and profoundly the re.
iation OF the federal and state governments.
lie had thus early formed perfectly clear and
settled opinions, about which his mind new
er vacilated. They were the opinions of
Jackson, OF Van Barren, of Wright, and of
Marcy. with whom, during most of their
public lives, he had been on terms of perso-
nal intimacy.
During the winter of lS60Gl he attended
a meeting of the leading men of both par
ties in the city of New York, to consider
what measures were necessary and practc.
able to avert an armed collision between
what were then termed the free aud the
slave states To the north he urged recon.
ciliation and iorbearance, appreciating as
he d d more clearly than most of those
around him the fearful and disastrous con-
sequences OF a civil war, whatever might
prove its ultimate result. To the south he
urged Difference to the will OF the majority
and respect for the provisions of the fed.
eral constitution, within which they woull
be sure of adequate protection for themselves
and for their property but he warned them
that outside of the constitution they would
expect protection for neither.
When the war did come Mr.. Tiden as
ISOLATED himself with and was the private
adviser of Mr.. Dean Richmond, then at the
head of the democratic party of New York,
and who was accustomed on all important
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ment and seek his counsel
AT meeting held at the house of Gener.
al Dix, just after the first call of President
Lincoln for $4,000 troops, Mr.. Tilden was
present and participated in the discussions
which took place. He then and there ex-
pressed the opinion that they were on the
eve of a great war, and maintained that m
stiad of f75,000 troups Mr.. Lincoln should
have called out at least 100000, half for
Immediate service and the other half to be
put in camps of instruction and trained for
impending exigencies. Unhappily that gen
Grafton hal seen so little of war and had
sach limited means Of comprehending the
rapidity with which the war spirit, once
lighted, will spread among people, that It
was not competent to appreciate the wisdom
of this advice, which, if adopted, would pro-
b,bly have prevented the necessity of any
further increase of military force.
To Secretary Chase and his friends Mr.
Tilden insisted that the war ought to be car
ried on under system of sound finance.
which he did not doubt the people would
cheerfully sustain if the government would
have the courage to propose it, AT a later
period of the war he was invited by the
government at Washington to give his ad-
vice as to the best methods for its further
conduct. He said to the secretary fwar:
You have no right to expect great mil
itary 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 resour-
ces resulting from your greater 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 dispro.
His advice was not taken, but he had the
satisfaction, within year after it was Civ
en-, ofhearing the secretary of war acknowl-
edge its wisdom and lament his inability to
secure its adoption.
Mr.. Tilden's later political labors are ia.
miliar as household words to the people of
the United lSiates. He grappled with and
overthrow the Tweed ring which was the
most powerful and corrupt political combi-
nination ever establishe in this country be-
cause it had its support in a political com
bination of the worstmen in both the demo-
cratic and the republican parties who were
equally powerful at Albany and New York
For this signal service to the country the
people of New York showed their arprecia-
tion by electing him to the governorship of
the state by majority of over $4,000 votes
over the accomplished and popular Dix who
had himself been elected two years previous.
ly by a plurality of $4,000. His record as
governor of New York is as brilliant and
courageous as his previous political exploits
had led the people to expect. Mr.. Tilden
has let nothing stand between him and the
promotion of the best interests of the people.
The fierce opposition to his nomination made
by democrats shows that his clear cut notions
of duty have made him enemies in his own
party. But the enmity of ambitious and
corrupt men win detract nothing from his
estimation in the judgment of the people
who look quite through the surface of such
hostility to find the bottom of it. Mr.. Tilden
is born leader Of men and under his keen
direction the coming campaign will be waged
on the field Of his selection, and we do not
for an instant doubt with a successful result.
CLERICAL ADyERTIsING.-An illustra-