The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-08-23

There are others in the Democratic patty who
are there Just because their fathers were DEM
oerats. They do not mean any particular harm.
Others are there because they could not amount
to anything in the Republican party. A man
only ut for corporal in the Republican ranks,
VIII make leader in the Democratic party.
ny the Democratic party, mean that party
that sided with the South-that believed in
secesslon-that loved slavery-that hated lib
erty-that denounced Lincoln as tyrant-that
burned orphan asylums that gloried in our
disasters-that denounced every effort to save
tne natlen-they are the gentlemen l mean,
ana they constitute a large majority of the
| Democratic party
The colored people have suffered enough.
For more than two hundred years they have
suffered the tabled torments of the damned;
ior more than two hundred years they worked
and toied without reward, bending in the
burning sun, their bleeding backs; for more
thaE TWO hundred years babes were torn from
| tbe breasts of mothers, wives from husbands,
and every human tie broken by the cruel hand
| OF greed for more than two hundred years they
were pursued by hounds, beaten with clubs,
| burned with fire, bound with chains Two hun
dred years of toll, of agony of tears; two hun
dred years of hope deferred; two hundred
years of gloom and shadow, and darkness, aud
| Diackness: two hundred years of supplication,
| OF entreaty; two hundred years Of infinite out
| rage, without a moment of revenge!
The colored people have suffered enough.
They were and are our friends. They are the
| friends of this country, and, cost what it NAV
they must be protected.
The whole loyal man must be protected
| They have been ostraciSed, slandered, mobbed
and murdered. Their blood cries from the
| ground.
These two things-payment of the debt. and
protection of loyal citizens, are the things to be
| done. Which party can be trusted?
| Which will be the most apt to pay tie
| debt?
| Which will be the most apt to protect the
| colored and white loyaist at the South?
| WHO Is SAMUEL j. TILDEN?
Samuel j. Tilden is an attorney. He never
| gave birth to an elevated noble sentiment in
| his life. He is kind of legal spider, watching
in web of technicalities for victims He is
compound of cunning and heartlessness-of
beak and claw and fang. He is one of the few
| men who can grab a railroad and hide the deep
cuts tunnels and culverts in a single night.
| He is corporation wrecker. He is demur-
| rer filed by the Confederate Congress- He
| waits on the shores of bankruptcy to clutch the
| drowning by the throat. He was never mar
| ried. The Democratic party has satisfied the
| longings of his heart He has looked upon
| love az weakness. He has courted men be-
cause women cannot vote. He has contented
himself by adopting rag-baby, that really be.
| longs to Mr.. Hendricks, and his principal
business at present is explaining how he came
| to adopt this child.
Samuel j. Tilden has been for years without
number, a New York Democrat. This party
has never had but two objects to accomplish
| grand and petit larceny. 1t has had in its nav
| for years the worst criminals and the most
| abandoned wretches. Tammany Hall sustains
| the same relation to the penitentiary that a
| Sunday School does to the church. All has
been intrigue, plot and counter plot. They
York has been, and still is, the worst govern
ed city in the world. Political influence is
bought and sold like stocks and bonds. Nearly
every contract is larceny in disguise-nearly
every appointment is reward for crime and
every election is fraud. Among such men
Samuel J. Tilden has lived; with such men he
has acted; by such men he has been educated;
such men have been his scholars, and such men
are his friends. These men resisted the draft,
bat Samuel j. Tilden remained their friend
They burned orphan asylums, but Tlldens
friendship never cooled. They inaugurated
riot and murder, but Tilden wavered not They
stole a hundred million, and when no mo.e was
left to steal-when the people could not even
pay the interest on the amount stolen-then
these Democrats, clapping their hands over
their bursting pockets began shouting for re-
form. Ee left hisprivate affairs long enough
to assist the Democracy to declare the war for
the restoration of the Union failure; long
enough to denounce Lincoln as a tyrant and
usurper. He was generally too busy to de-
nounce the political murders and asSassinations
in the Soutb-too busy to say word in favor
of justice and liberty; but he found time to de-
clare the war for the preservation of the coun-
try an outrage. He managed to spare time
enough to revile the proclamation of emancipa-
tion-time enough to shed few tears over the
corpse of slavery; time enough to oppose the
enfrachisement of the colored man; time
enough to raise his voice against the snjustce
of putting loyal negro on political level with
pardoned rebel; time enough to oppose every
forward movement of the nation.
No man Should ever be elected President of
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and destroy it, No man should be elected
President who sympathized with those who
were endeavoripg to destroy it, No man should
be elected President of this great nation Who
when it was in deadly peril. did not endeavor
to save it by act and word No man should be
elected President who does not believe that
every negro should be free-that the colored
people should be allowed to vote. No man
should be placed at the head of the nation-n
command of the army and navy-who does not
believe that the Constitution, with all it's
amendments should be sacredly enforced No
man should be elected President of this nation
who believes in the Democratic doctrine OF
Estates Rights; who believes that this Gov
eminent is only federation of states. No man
should be elected President of our great coun-
try who aided and abetted her enemies 10 war
who advised or countenanced resistance to a
draft in time of war; who by Islander I'M
paired her credit, sneered at her heroes and
laughed at her martyrs. Samuel j. TIdensis
PooHNISN
mentioned.
Mr.. Tilden is the author of an essay on
finance, commonly called letter of acceptance,
in which his ideas upon the great subject are
given in the plainest and most direct manner
imaginable. All through this letter or essay
there runs vein of honest bluntness really re-
fresbing. As specimen of bluntnoss and
clearness, take the following extracts:
"The proper time for the resumption is the time
when Wise preparation shall have ripened into per-
RI fha chi ~
and ease that will inspire confidence and encourage
the reviving of business. The earliest time in which
such result can be brought about is best Even
when preparations shall have been maturei, the
exact date would have to be chosen with reference to
the then existing state of trade and credit operations
in our own country and the course OF foreign COM
merce and condition of exchanges with other nations
The specific measure and actual date matters of
Details having reference to everchanging conditions
They belong to the domain or practical administra
tive craftsmanship. The captain of steamer, about
starting from New York to Liverpool, does not as
by which to lash the rudder for the whole voyage
human intelligence must be at the helm to discern
the shifting forces of water and winds. human
mind must be at the helm feel the elements day by
day, and guide to mastery over them. Such pre-
parations are everything. Without them legisla-
tive command fixing day-an official promise fixing
day, are shams. They are worse. They are snare
and delusion to all who trust them. They destroy
all confidence among thoughtful men, whose jude-
ment will at last sway public opinion. An attempt
to act on such command, such a promise with
out preparation, would end in a new suspension. 1t
trust, and distress"
In other words, the way to pay the debt is to
get the money, and the way to get the money
is to provide central reservoir of coin to adjust
the fluctuations. As to the resumption he gives
us this:
Chow shall the government make these notes at
all times good as specie? 1t has to provide in ref
to the mass which would be kept in by the
wants of business central reservoir of coin adequate
to the adjustment of the temporary fluctuations OF
the International balance. and guaranty against
transient drains, artfcialy created by panic or by
speculation. 1t has also to provide for the payment
in coin Of such fractional currency may be present.
ed for redemption, and such ncons1erabe portion OF
legal tenders as individuals may from time to time
desire convert for special use in order to lay by
in coin their little store of money. To make the
coin in the treasury available for the objects of
this reserve, to gradually strengthen and enlarge
that reserve, and to provide for such other excep
tional demands for com as may arise. does seem
to work of difficulty. II wisely planned and dis
creetly pursued it ought not to auy sacrifice to
the business of the country. 1t should tend on the
contrary, to the revival of hope and confidence
That is to say, Congress has not sufficient
intelligence to fix the date of resumption. They
cannot fix the proper time But Democratic
convention has human intelligence enough to
know that the LIST day of January, 1879, is not
the proper date. That convention knew what
the state of trade in our country and the course
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