Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-02
Specimens of Tilden's Patriotism
and Honesty.


/. When every patriotic heart was
stirred by the rebel assault upon the Union
flag in 'Gl, Tilden made no sign of SYM
patty with the grand uprising of the peo-
| pie.
2. When asked to sign the call for the
| first Union meeting in the Metropolis, he
peremptorily refused.
s. When every loyal man and woman
and child in the North, who had dime or
dollar to spare, was contributing to the
patriotic fund in aid Of the government,
Tilden refused to contribute farthing
from his great wealth.
4. When every loyal speaker in the
land was uttering words of nope and good
cheer, and when the whole North ran
with shouts of vehement patriotism, Til
den was dumb and indtferent-willing
that the Union should be dismembered
and treason triumph, rather than contrib
ute dime or utter sentence to avert the
threatened overthrow of the republic.
). When loyal men of all parties were
united in their denunciation of secession as
heresy and a crime, Tilden was writing
letters and making speeches to prove thai
any State, if backed by its local public
opinion, had right to withdraw from the
Union; that the general government had
no right to "coerce' such State back to
its allegiance, and that if the attempt were
made the State would have the same right
to resist as an independent nation would
to repel invasion.
6. While the war was in progress, and
when the life OF the republic hung in the
balance while the nation and the people
were straining every nerve to overthrow
the rebellion and to punish treason. Tilden
made no sign" of sympathy with the
country or with the brave men who were
fighting its battles.
Z. In 1861. when the rebellion was being
pushed to the wall, and when it was evil
dent to every careful observer that the
war must speedily close by the surrender
of the rebel army, Tilden, by cooperating
with Northern Copperheads and knights
of the Golden Circle, gave them heart
and hope, and, by the action of the Chicago
Convention, which declared the war a
.'failure" and that it must "cease," pre-
longed the war through an additional
twelve-month, and paved the way for the
slaughter of an additional hundred thou
sand boys in blue.
s. While every one who had drop Of
patriotic blood in his veins stood ready to
shed it for his beloved country, Tilden was
busy wrecking railroads and embezzling
stock and bonds from the widows and or
phans OF ST Louis and Terre Haute.
8. Tilden was not satisfied with with
holding every dollar OF his own great
wealth from the patriotic fund during the
war, but Otis specifically charged) sought,
in go. by the basest means. to defraud the
government out of its lawful due, by
falsely stating his income. Parsimony
and disloyalty, as illustrated in the war
action of this great reformer, needed but
the addition of fraud and perjury to round
out his character and present to the world
the unmistakablc lineaments of a first
class rogue.
10. Tilden started out as "reformer,'
pledged to punish the "canal thieves"
who had for years been depicting the
treasury. But he has accomplished moth
ing, except to give him an opportunity to
bargain with these thieves for their vote
as the price of immunity from further
prosecution.
II. Protesting determined purpose to
punish all offenders and to permit the law
to take its course, he is pardoning convict
ed criminals by the score to secure their
votes for himself and his party.
Il. While pretending great love for
civil service. and ostentatiously condemn
ing official interference IN elections. Til
den permits clerks and deputies, paid by
the people, to neglect their business to at
tend to politics. and compels subordinates
to do clerical work in the committee rooms
OF his party.
Is. Having done nothing to save the re-
public from the hands of armed traitors,
he now expects the votes of traitors to
make him President of country they
sought to destroy Albany Journal.
is bad for an ardent refOrmer TO steal
a quart r of a million from a Western
railroad, but to swear to lie in order to
escape the tax upon 1t argues degree OF
meanness that no one but Sam ridden