The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-09-08
Che0ateIti9etleer.
,r,I,RKABLE LETTER FROM
JNO. TYLER, JR.
THE thoughts OF u Southern Wan
and Ex.COniederate SOLDIER
in Eloquent Plea for the Eiec-
ZION Of Hayes and Wheeler.
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1871 MADISON Avenue, |

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1871 MADISON AVENUE, L
BALTIMORE, MD., Aug. 90, 1876. !
n 4 Care, Ey, Salem, Fduguier County
Virginia:
SlE-Your letter and postal card, after
going to my address at Jacksonville,
FioriI., found me here finally, at the
,s.ilence Of my sister, in Baltimore. This
willeIpIain the reason Of the long delay
in nv reply to your questioning. "Now
,h,t The Presidential nominations are
made Won say, ~ desire 10 hear from
YOU on The si,iation." And you give me
10 understand that you wish an answer
sIch ~ | would address to "thoughtful
minds" in the South, who like you and
myself, gave all We had to the Southern
ConfedeTacy during the recent war.
You would have ME address myself to
thoughtful minds" Will thoughtful
minds think OF these facts associated
with the triumphant Democracy in the
past, when dextrous New York politi.
cal intriguant was President? And
should this he not enough to engage the
thoughts OF thoughtful minds, let their
coritations be directed 10 the further
fact that these same New York Demo-
Gratis, together with those Of Indiana, rs
veil as those Of Pennsylvania and the
balance OF the North and West, with
Messrs. Tilden and Hendricks, Seymour
and Blair, Randall and the rest OF them
after having through their alliance
with the South, led the South into the
recent war OF secession, basely deserted
The South IN their peril, and took up
arms against the Southern people, and
in the war became the most destructive
soldiers to Southern property in the
leld. !. d
In the light of these facts and circum.
stances, is il asked OF me now, as South.
ern man, and from Southern standing
uoinl, to put them in possession OF the
Government, so that they may enjoy all OF
its chief honOrs and cmolumcnts, for the
sake Of few Of the crumbs that may be
scattered to the people Of the South from
their rich and abundant official tables ?
As complete and absolute as was the ne.
CATION Of all principle, honor and char
acter on the part Of the Democrats Of the
South in 1872, when in that foul greed
for Office which has always marked the
Democracy, whether ut the South or
North, they Endorsed and sustained Hor-
are Greeley for the Presidency; yet even
that was more excusable than their pres
ent support OF the "War Democracy" OF
the North and West, through their adj
vOcacy Of the ticket Of Tilden and Hen
bricks, for in the former case it may be
said they generously respected an open,
frank and manly enemy, whereas in the
latter case they are sustaining before the
SOrld treachery rs a principle, and the
representations Of Ptsniea fdes. - ~
Sooner than sustain Greeley in 1872 l
sustained Grant. Why? My reasons
we're set forth at the time in the speech |
sent you, made by me on the Capitol
grounds in Tallahassee. Greeley, as a
Propagandist, n socialist and an aboli.
ZIONIST, in control OF the most widely dis
teminated and influential journal in the
United States, had educated the minds Of
the Northern agrarian and communistic
masses into hatred OF the Southern peo-
pie, and had wrought up in them the res
OluuOn Of war against the South, to over
throw itS Institutions and TO secure 10
themselves either mediately or imme-
diately the landed occupation OF the
South, and no man lived in the United
States who was so responsible for the
blOodshed and ruin occasioned by tho war
IS Horace Greeley, whereas Grant, as a
West Point officer, had done nothing
whatever 10 inlame the minds OF the
North against the South prior to the
var, and during the war was the mere
creature Of orders on the part Of the
Government at Washington, which had
educated him for its uses. But above
and beyond this he had, by the course he
pursued as General.in.Chief OF the North
eru armies at the surrender Of the South
ern COntederacy, protected, provided for
and saved the leaders Of the South, both
civil and military, from tho designs OF
the GrSeleyites in the North, which were
TO have been carried into execution un-
der a declaration Of treason and confSca-
ton against them all, and which other
wise and but for General Grant would
surely have been done. NtH=.HEf
Nov, again, in 1876, sooner than sus-
tain Tilden shall sustain Hayes. As a
Southern man, | want no second Martin
Van Buren, W President. There are
thousands yet who live and remember
Inc tteacherous conduct Of Mr.. Van Blu
rem toward the South on the Texas ques-
non, as well as on other questions no
les vital to the South, and this, too, after
Tue Southern people had elevated him to
Me residential Office. For one, ] can
aos forget the facts OF history thus asso-
aAled with Mr., Van Buren,, nor can l
!eae 10 remember that Samuel J. Tildcn
IN 1851 proved himself equally PREACHER.
Gus 10 the South, and as Unworthy Of
S Si.1 confidence in an issue still more
n.'a' % the South than any that had yet
engaged the public councils,
ii. put Mr.. Tilden Is an honest man, II is
"ig' and ptoGers 10 the people an honest
Gna economical administration OF the
government. Economy and reform are
T W. y on biz banners, and his war upon
Se weed King and the Canal Ring in
; Tes lGsk give assurance, it Is also said,
S 'aa! "a President he will purge the Gov.
eminent Of the United States likewise Of
AL ot1clal corruption. His supporters,
moreover strangely assert that he com.
, ILsnCei llfepoOr in the worlds goods, yet
, SSs0aSa manly energy and industry, al.
s %ouga an honest man, has made himself
enormously no.a rich rich professionally and
RaH from his role as a New York polIti-
S .Sa,, II this be SO, then John Randolph
inT ;o appear with his black swan, and
t S;,Ogeaes DO raised from the tomb with
%s lantern. These are, however, all
, ~SIe partisan cries, and those who are
,Sa l!lnEl J ctedulous may believe them II
H ple9Ie; but with regard to the idea OF
So new York politician from poverty be.
SSalSS honestly enormously rich. I
,ap!y say: Creaat Judaas Apeila, non roo
~s alng would be impossible.
Il an % hia having purged the Democrat.