The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-09-27
r1LDEs,s RECORD.
LFrom Harpsr,s weekly, Sept. ISL

Mr.. Manton Marble truly says that Mr..
Tilden's position in respect to tho war was
never open to the slightest doubt 1t GER
tainly WAS not.
In 1854 hc said TO Preston King that the
formation Of the Republican party in opposi-
tion to the slave oligarchy would either be
political blundor, or It would be political
crime, In creating conflict In which the gov
ernment would probably perish.
In October, 1900, no wrote to William Kent
that the trainers Of the Constitution recoe-
nizod no right Of the constitutional secession,
but they left revolution organized when ii
should be demanded by the public opinion Of
a State, left It with power to snap the tie of
confederation, as nation might break a
treaty, and to rapei coercion, as nation
might repel invasion
In February, 1861, he refused to sign SIM
pie patriotic call for public meeting in New
York upon the fall Of Sumter.
In February, 1853, he was one Of q dozen
Of the EXTREMIST " Copperheads " in the city
of New York who formed Society to publish
and diffuse, In the darkest hour of the war,
the most virulent "Copperheads " speeches
and pro-slavery documents, which was doing
the work Of the Rebellion as effectually as
shipping arms and ammunition to the rebels.
This Society Of Mr.. Tilden's published,
among other things, a speech of James Brooks,
in which he said that Mr.. Lincoln's procla-
nation of September, 1862, seems to con-
template the exciting of the slaves to the des-
truction, not only Of their masters, but of wo-
men and children" 1t published speech of
Mr.. Pugh, in which he declared that
1.-THE war might have been avoided ;. had
not Abraham Lincoln and the leaders of the
Republican party Enthusiastically, per-
sistently, stubbornly refused-auy terms what
soever. !. s.. We have no governor in
truth, we have only being. ~. If l
am arrested, rs may be to-mprrow or before
sandown, and dragged into the presence of
military commission, as Vallandigham was,
will you act 1t Published speech Of
Richard O'Gorman when Horatio Seymour
was governor of New York, and the rebels
hoped he would try to withdraw the State
from the war. MI. O'Gorman said, and Mr.
Tilden's Society published and diffised his
words, Il fear much that, under the pretext
of restoring the Union, we are strengthening
the hands of those whose policy tends to des-
troy our liberties. Do you ask what, then,
is to be done? Isay the first thing to be done
Is to arm the State of New York. -.
Let our soldiers be drilled, then, not merely
for paradcs in the streets, but in camps of In
ov,d yof tl,a,,, he ,,.a,,o ,oJ ~. >.. A.
defend the rights of our State. AL
though the Union may fall, liberty may be
preserved, and the State may be sovereign
yet Let us remember that each State
in its inherent sovereignty is independent in
itself. Then we are for the Union as long as
1t can be supported" This is what Mr.. Til
den and his Society were Publishing and diff
fusing to cheer the soldiers in the field and
strengthen the national patriotic purpose at
home in the most critical moment of the
struggle. Mr.. Marble says truly that Mr..
Tilden's "position In respect to the war was
never open to the slightest doubt" 1t GER
tainly was not, any more than that of Fernan-
do Wood, Vallandigham, or Jefferson Davis.
In August, 1864, Mr.. Tilden was the New
York member of the platform committee of
the Chicago Democratic Convention, which
reported, without dissent, a resolution de-
nouncing the war as failure and demanded
cessation of hostiIities.
These facts are undeniable and whoever
may be the Nathan murderer, as the Boston
Herald humorousiy suggests these facts es-
tablish that Mr.. Tilden gave his money, his
influence by the word and pen, to the cause
Of the Rebellion. He served 1t very much
more eifectuaIly than he could have served it
in the field. He declared the course of the
Government not only to be constitutionally
indefensible, but practically futile and hope
less. He encouraged in the publication of
his Society the most rancorous hostility to the
administration and to the war. In the same
way he paralyzed patriotism and discouraged
the raising of men and money. Finally, he
declared the war failure and when his
words were disproved by the event, he joined
In Wade Hampton's declaration, in the Demo-
cratic Convention of 1868, that the recon-
struction Acts were revolutionary, unconsti-
tutional, and void. And all this he did under
antees of liberty,-a plea made in the interest
Of an infamous conspiracy to overthrow this
government and perpetuate slavery upon this
continent After war SO fierce, prolonged,
and consuming, to maintain the Union---a
contest in which his views and his efforts were
hostile both to liberty and to the great princi-
pie of the Union, war which has left strong
passons infamed and momentous issues
springing from 1t to be met and treated--is
there any reason why man, who held in 1860
that the Union was "tie of confederation
which any State might rightfully SNAP"
and who gave his money, his reasoning, and
his countenance to those who were trying to
snap It, should now be made the chief magis-
trate Of the Union merely because he calls
himself o reformer y?
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