The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-26
HEwITT's SPEECH,
lConcIudedl,

in long business career, dealing in large
transactions in all parts of this country and
in Europe. / defy these gentlemen to lay
their hands upon dishonest dollar in the
possession of Samuel J.. Tilden. | say
that the people whom he served are his
friends to-day, and his best friends. And
it is the services there which he rendered
to the West. Notwithstanding the insinua-
tions of the gentlemen from Iowa, that
will give him the vote of those great West
ern States within whose borders he recon
structed 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 remarkable career, he has
been tbs wisest 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
statesmen in the land, and he will, by the
blessing of God, be one of the greatest, per-
haps the greatest of Presidents of the Uni
ted States, because he will have the oppor-
tunity to rescue this government from the
hands of the incompetent and dishonest
men who have controlled it so long and
made it reproach in the eyes OF the
civilized globe (Great applause
NoTE-In confirmation of his statements. Mr..
Hewitt inserts the following telegram received from
Mr.. Manton Marble too late to be inserted in the
text:
NEW LEBANON, n. Y. August 49, 1876
Hon. A. S. Hewitt, House of Representatives
Washington, d. c.:
Your Telegram received and shown to
me- Although Mr.. Tilden was for the ten
years previous to the war and during the
war, in private life, his position in respect
to the war was never open to the slightest
doubt He had been early educated e
condemn the doctrines OF notification and
secession. 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 sup
port of the Government enforcing the
| jurisdiction and averting dismemberent
of the country. He attended the meet
ing of the Goth of April, 1861, and again
on the 22d Of April the meeting of the
members of the New York bar. He soon
after addressed regiment setting out tOl
the front. He attended the presentation
of colors to the Seventy-ninth Highlanders
and afterward afforded that regiment
special aid and service, to say nothing Of
frequent contributions of money elsewhere
His attitude throughout the war was that
of man who, disappearing of the scatter
alton military management and the lnfa
ton financial policy adopted by the Admin
istration because they tended to prolone
the war and increase its sacrifices, never
theless sustained the arm of the Govern
ment. Every utterance of his during thu
whole war was in accord with this post
ion. Every statement to the contrar,
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 at tn,
Chicago Democratic Convention of 1864
| was the bearer Of message from him t,
General Mcclellan, advising him to dis
card the Objectionable words in the plat
form which were also discarded in tn,
subsequent platform Of the New Yorl
State Democratic Convention. [ hav,
possession of the original manuscript of
declaration which he prepared in October
1862, to be used to define the position O
the New York Democracy, the positio,
which he thought it ought to take ant
which it did take. | select this from
among many expressions for its brevity
1t is given below.