Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
who can Mistake the Issue The Loop II ole
Out OF which Tilden will, II Elected, Creep
TO Favor Rebel War CIaims-Gov. TiIden
and Duke Gwin-Zeb ID. yance-Pernnac-
ity OF TiIden,s scriyeners.

! zeal records of tho candidates before
us-with the respective platforms ~
on which they have been placed in
our hands, who can mistake the issue
and be deceived 10 the selection oil
his ballot? No one. Let the people
now speak and give another evidence
of their being loysl sons of ioya
sires.
As we have heretofore asserted
there is not the slightest doubt that
TIl1en, in drafting his let er in rela.
ton 10 the pay ment OF the Southern
War Claims, shfewdly left a loop
hole out of which he can, if elected
to the Presidency, creep SO as to ia
vor the Rebel War Claims now pend
ing in the House of Representatives,
and all others Of like character.
which may hereafter be presented.
We said that it was very evident that
the leading members of Congress,
representing Southern constituencies
understood his intention before he
published his letter to Hewitt, and
now comes the confederation of our
statement.
Riddle, Representative from Ten
nessee, and author of bill to pay,
from the Public Treasury, for the
use and occupancy of property by
the Union Army, indorses Tilden's
letter, and expresses entire aatisfac-
tion with its terms. Senator Blain,
in recent speech, fully explains
why the rebels are satisfied with the
terms Of Tilden's letter. "SIippery
Sam uel' was very careful in the use
of words. He deprecates the losses
''incurred" by the rebels, but not fer
those Suffered" by the rebels, and
inflicted by the Northern Army,
would amount to hundreds of mil
lions of dollars. These Tilden pro-
poses to pay from the Public Treas
ury, as not being prohibited by the
Constitutional amendment. Hence
the approval of his letter by the
Southern press and Southern politi
clans. After these shall have been
paid, then will come the effort TO re-
move all distractions to the pay
ment to the whole rebel claim, in
Guiding compensation for slaves and
damages of whatever kind.
On Monday evening, at the Man.
hatten club of New York City, q
grand reception was given to Samu>
ell j. Tilden, the would be President
of the United States. There and then
were assembled many of the admir-
ers of the Southern favorite for the
Chief Magstracy Of this country.
The candidate was surrounded by
those, with whose aspirations, views
aud principles he is in full accord.
In word, the central figure and the
worshipers presented q scene repre-
-~...ug ~ norn nuu u.oCu birds OF
feather all flock together"
The n. Y. Sun says that "among
the first who greeted him (Tilden)
was Senator Gwin, of California,
whose martial bearing and long
white moustsches made him one OF
the most conspicuous persons in the
room" And who is Senator Gwin
The Gallatin Glenn Examiner an
swers, that he is one "who, for his
special fitness for the work, was se-
lected by Tilden TO take care of bis
interests in ST Louis, and who was,
for several moaths before the nomi-
nation, performing political services
in Washington"
The country knows something of
this man Gwin. He was a United
States Senator at the inauguration of
the civil war. He was recognized as
one of the viless rebels in that body.
After the relapse of the rebellion, he
proclaimed his determination to expa.
triate himself rather than live under
the Stars and Stripes. He did do go,
and emigrated to Mexico, becoming
a partisan of Maximalan, who sought
to overthrow that Rebublic and es-
tablish a Monarchy. For his services
in that unhoIy enterprise, he was Gre
ated Duke, and would, had the in
vader succeeded in bis ambitious de.
signs, be at this day one Of the satel-
ites revolving around the throne OF
usurper. This is the man who,
having failed in Mexico, is now aid
ing to elevate prototype to despotic
power in this country.
Zeb. B. Vance, Ex-Governor OF
North Carolana once shrieked /:
s'Fight 'emi Press forward and gain
the victory, even though you have to
pass over hell on a rotten slab" Is
it any wonder that in '63 conscrip.
ton officers shot Union men 10 their
homes, logged women and children
for not revealing the hiding places
of their protectors, plundered the
State Treasury, ADD then issued
worthless bonds which they forced
the people to take in exchange for
their property? What filling eli
max for these same reformers that
they should plumber the school funds,
thus practically closing the public
schools at the behest of "Slippery
Samuel" What next?
NJ. B. Lowrie knew his men when
be exclaimed GAN good Democrats
who read the N. Y. World and the
lords Prayer, will vote the reform
ticket"
1t is amusing to see with what per-
tipacity Tllden's scriveners are striv-
ing to make the capital out of the
testimony of Chief Justice Moses, of
South Carolina, william that, by the
the testimony of his own partizans
and relatives, has been guilty of
crimes that make bis name stencil