Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-09-02


is party; but the one man stood in th
2, community above and beyond reproach
} and the other was always an object o
o suspicion and finally of detestation.
n Mr.. Davy rose.
o Mr.. Hewitt, of New York, | vii
t not be Interrupted more. / have showT
: disposition to answer all reasonable
questions, and / decline to be inter.
g rupted any more. Now the gentleman
g from Iowa -Aew aia tii
!, Mr.. Lapham The gentleman ia
t speaking by the grace of this side OF
i the House.
Mr.. Hewitt, of New York. 1 am
: not speaking by the grace Of anybody
: but of my own colleague and my con-
? stituents. Now, the gentleman from
7 Iowa INDUCED In one insinuation of
SO mean aud despicable a character
that almost hesitate to refer TO il. IL
he could have blushed-and / looked
into his face as sat near him on pur-
pose-if he were capable Of blushinR
! he would have blushed then, but he
did not. He insinuated that the pri-
vate fortune of Governer Tilden had
been acquired by some tishonorable,
and be did not dare to say dishonest,
but he implied it, dishonet practices
in connection with railways and cor
pOratlOns. Now, when q man makes
an insinuation of that sort he should
be prepared with the proof 1t is a
mean, unmanly, disbonorabls charge
for any man to make behind the back
of another man who is not here to
answer. But can tell that gentleman,
and l hope that his record is as clear
and as good, that Governor Tilden was
called from 1857 to 1860 into almost
every broken-down railway corpors 4
ton in the West; that while he found
them unable to pay even running ex-
penses, he took them in hand and so
administered them that in every case
the bonds, whether first. second, or
third mortgage, and the stock, pre-
ferred and common, all ultimately
went above par; aud he enriched the
people who were wise enough and for
tunate enough to have secured his
services. 1 am personally among the
numbers of those who were benefited
by his wise and sagacious management:
and say. SO far from having been
overpaid in any of these transactions,
that his legal fees aud his personal
services were the cheapest and most
poorly rewarded l have ever known In
long business career, dealing in large
transactions in all parts of this country
and in Europe. =, -.I |
l defy these gentlmen to lay their
hands upon dishonest dollar in the |
possession Of Samuel j. Tildeu. | |
say that the people whom he served |
are his friends to-day, and his best
| friends. And it is the service there |
which he rendered TO the West, not
withstanding the insinuations Of the |
gentleman from Iowa that will give |
him the vote of those great western
States within whose borders he recon-
struoted highways which are to them |
to-day the arteries of commerce and |
public blessings, the value of which |
cannot be properly estimated.
And as through the whole of his re-
markable career he has been the wi
sest of men, he has been the truest of |
friends, he has been the most Jealous
and earnest of patriots, SO to-day he is
the wisest, the most accomplished
statesman in the land, and he will by |
the blessing of God be one of the |
greatest, perhaps The greatest Of the
Presidents Of the United States, be- |
cause he will have the opportunity to
rescue this Government from the hands |
of the incompetent and dishonest men |
who have controlled it so long and |
made II q Feproaoh In the eyes of the |
civilized globe. g Great applause.
NorR.-In confirmation ofhis statements
Mr.. Hewitt inserts the following telegram |
received from Mr.. Manton Marble too late /
tQ be inserted In the text: $500
New LEBANON, N. Y. Aug. Ia, '76.
Hon. A.. S, HEWITT,
HOnse Of Representatives, Wash
iagton, ID. c.:
Your telegram received and shown
to me. Although Mr.. Tllden was for
the ten years previous to the war and
during the war in private life, his pO-
sition in respect to the war was never
open to the slightest doubt. He had |
been early educated to condemn the /
doctrines of notification and seces-
sion. He had foreseen the danger of
civil war when many derided it, and
did all he could to avoid it; but when
it arrived he took an open and decided
stand in support of the Government.
enforcing it's jurisdiction and avertlng
q dismemberment of the country. he
attended the meeting of the 10th of
April, 1861, and again on the I'D of
April the meeting of the members of
the New York bar. He soon after
addressed regiment setting out for
the front, He attended the presenta-
ton of colors to the Seventy ninth
HIghlanders, and afterward afforded
that regiment special aid and service,
to say nothing Of frequent contribu-
tions of money elsewhere. His atti-
tude throughout the war was that Of |
man who, Disappearing of the scatter |
atiap military management and the in
fation financial policy adopted by the |
Administration because they tended |
to prolong the war aud increase its |
sacrifices, nevertheless. sustained the
arm of the Government. Every ut
terance of his during the whole war
was in accord with his position. Ev-
cry statement to the contrary about |
any single act or expression is totally |
false. Some Of his speeches / heard |
myself, particularly great speech |
which he made before the New York |
delegation ut the Chicago democratic |
convention Of 1854. I-was the bearer
of message from him to Gen. McOlel- |
Ian advising him to discard the objec-
tionable words in the platform, which |
were also discarded in the subsequent
platform of the New York State dem
ocratic convention. / have possess
sion of the original manuscript Of
declaration which he prepared in DC
tober, 1862, to be used to define the
position of the New York democracy,
the position which he thought 1t ought
to take and which it did take. l Sc"
lect this from among many expressions
for its breyity. 1t is as follows:
| And now if my voice could reach |
the Southern people through the jour
mails of our metropolis, would say to
them that in no event can the triumph |
Of the Conservative sentiment Of New
York in the election mean consent TO
disunion either now or hereafter. lis |
| true import is restoration North and |
South of that Constitution which had |
secured every right and under whose |
shelter all had been happy and pros
porous until you madly fled from it's
protection. Ii was your act which be- |
gan this oalamitous, evil war. II was
your act which disabled us, as we are
now disabled. from shaping the policy
or limiting the objects of that war.
Loyalty as we maintained your rights
will we maintain the rights of the
| Govarnment WewiIl not strike down