New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-11-03

abilities which are distinguished, or OF the character
of his mind which is very marked nor shall deny.
that he performed services OF great value 10 the
people of this city when he fighting the Democ-
racy, and that he also was doing great service
in the State when he diminishing the taxes Of the
farmers and don't doubt that in those spheres OF pub
lie usefulness he ought be encouraged and continued
by the people OF the country There he has made his ame
and interrupts him in reaping the true harvest
OF those labOrs does him no service ana may 40 te
country great deal Of harm. But the question is OBJ
viousy very different whether Gov Ttden at the mead
of the Democracy, Democracy made up as IL Is hgh-
ing the Republican party is in the same line OF useful
ness that he occupied when he fighting Tweed and
Tammany Hall. And again there is room to DOUBT
whether auditing the claims of the Southern people
will be as likely to diminish the taxes OF the farmers as
what he has done in the service of this state.
What again could be more delicate, and at
the same time more singing than this, Ill re-
ply to the contrast which Democrats have been
fond of drawing between the public records OF
Gov. Hayes and Gov. Tilden 7
How many would it have taken to overcome
the rebellion il Gov Tden, followed by the American
people, had fought it the line that he adoptedf How
vast would have been the treasures for distribution
among The soldiers and sailors of the war; that
fighting for u.s. his method OF replenshng the Treas
ury had been adopted not disparaging the record
take it rs it But say that he not foremost
captain or general in arms and when the country was
in need did hurry, with gifts of gold, franklin
cense. ana myrrh, e. its aid.
Gov lflden's discovery that nothing can be
more faul to resumption than to say when
you are Oing 10 resume, gets great deal OF
illumination For instance:
lie has discovered that naming day for resumption is
an insurmountable impeachment to having resumption
He says that resumng without preparation is nugatory
and therefore that preparing without resumption IL
great zeal better He shows that it is good thing to
name a day which you will start on
voyage but it is great embarrassment to
know when you viii arrive at the end Of It.
But tins is not according To the common sense OF the
Amcria.t PEG e should soon think Of Gov IHdens
asci lg hi long unmarried life to the frequency with
which he named the day for his marriage to persuade
him thai having certain time within which to prepare
coufusrs and eublrasses the preparation.
Nothing could be more studiOusly courteous
and temperate throughout than the tone of Mr..
Evartss references to Gov. Tilden. Indeed
thcy are rather the embroidery of the speech
than any material part of its substance. and
yet so ludcrous Is Gov. Tilden's attitude in
This canvass that Mr.. EvartS finds it impossi-
BILE to allude to him without making him ridic-
ulous Take, for instance, this account of
Gov. Tilden's attitude during the war:
was one of five men that on the Tuesday after the
firing Sumter met in private. Office in Pine-st to feel
the pulse OF this people, them, and call public
meeting We did not know whether dared do it, lest
the fewness OF the number should be counted and
the game should DO lost and then did not dare to
the Academy OF Music for fear our shTnnken col
would display the pOorness of the patriotism OF
New-York But by Saturday. the 10Th, We determined
there was no place that could hold the peOpethe organ
lied loyal people-and the 10th day of April we had
IN. In auIf
10000 IL GOV. Tdcn had been there. There we're
% 800 without Fernando Wood, and he was there.
Here again is Gov. Tilden's latest ridiculous
performance, his promise to hold back his party
from paying the rebel war claims:
Gov seymour beseeches mis- countrynen to confde the
executive branch Of the Government 20 the Democratic
candidate because IL he undertakes to carry out his pr
ciples the Republican Senate will prevent him. And
Gov Tlden says in his last letter chat II the Democratic
Congress and his party undertake to pay the war
claims he will veto them. | have understood
that Gen. Jackson elected 10 veto bank
bin that the Wings for, but never
heard OF choosing a President because he would
veto the that his party were in favor Of In
deed, gentlemen, 1t may seem IA II this Democratic
party comes mucing up To gain the iVOr OF the
American people relies for the graces both Of its con-
tour aud s drapery the same thing that our modern
ladies' dresses do-the pullback" What II the "pull
back" should breakl
But we might go on reproducing pithy
CONVERSATIONS OF personal character and
political principles from this admira-
BILE speech, almost indefinitely. What we
have given above is mainly vivid
picture of how Mr.. Tildcn looks to the emf
nent leader of the New-York bar, of which he
himself has so long been prosperous if not
a very eminent member. Do voters like the