Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-10-20
Tildon and Twood--DemOoratio oUwardios

Ohrlstlan commission 10 supply medl-
cines and comforts to sick and disabled
soldiers, he said: "I would rather see
all the soldiers starved to death than
give them one cent" He meant it; and
the answer fully explains the motives by
which he and other leaders of the Demo-
cratic party were actuated The Demo
cratic party were in rebellion and sought
to destroy the Union. The Republican
party seemed raised up of the noblest of
the land for the express purpose of meet
ing so fearful peril. Republicans knew
the responsibility cast upon them. 1t
was great. They felt that crisis in the
history of the Republic had arrived
They felt also that the time had come
when the hopes of the fathers might be
fulfilled by faithful performance of
duty. In the dark days of the war the
Republican party held aloft the torch of
patriotism, that whosoever beheld its
rays and felt the love of country burn
within their bosom might flock to the
standard of the Stars and Stripes as it
hoated to the breeze. Little in the way
of assistance was expected from the
Democracy, and little comparatively was
received. Such men as Mr.. Tilden, Mr.
Tweed, Mr.. Wood, Mr.. Morrissey and
other Democratic gentlemen who subse-
quently subscribed for the erection of a
bronze statue to the absorbing virtues of
MIR. Tweed, the master of the Democratic
party, stood upon too lofty pedestal to
be reached when the nation was in dan.
ger. They had nothing to do but de-
nounce the war as a failure, and let the
Union be destroyed. .....
The monstrous cowardice of Mr.. Til
den and his Copperhead friends during
the war has become historic. He was
willing to contribute to the erection of a
statue to Mr.. Tweed, the master of the
Democratic party, and the most gigantic
robber of this or any other age, but he
refused to pay his income tax to sustain
the Government and to subscribe to the
funds of the Christian Commission. Mr..
Tweed was Democratic coward as well
as MIR Tilden. But the cowardice of Mr..
Tilden was meaner than Mr. Twecd's,
although of the same character. Why,
then, was Mr.. Tilden coward? A brave
man always loves his country; and Mr.
Tilden's record shows that he pleaded
that the South could not be coerced-
could not be conquered-andt this is the
language of fear, and mean fear. Mr..
Tilden would not lift his little finger to
save the Union or pay dime, not even
his income-tax, to the same end. To
him Union soldier was an evidence of
usurped power. The Constitution which
held the Union together said nothing
about selt-preservation. And as the
Union soldier was almost always a Re.
mn Mr. ~ Al.
rebellion of the Democratic party should
destroy the Union as far as he was con-
cerned, and secure all the fame. His
love to the Democratic party far ex.
ceeded his love for country The Union
soldier might starve-Mr. Tilden would
not feed him; while the Sinking Copper
heads who caused the draft Iiots in New
York city, and who were so warmly APP
preciated by Mr.. Horatio Seymour that
he could not help telling them they were
his friends, although he was Governor of
the State, commanded Mr.. Tildens ad-
miration.
Mr.. Tilden's cowardice was very mean.
He wanted the South to succeed, and the
Democratic party to obtain the glory and
the power. He was afraid of the Repub-
Republican victories. But his heart
sank into his boots amid the most ex-
cruciating trepidation when he learned
that the country had formed the grand
armies of the Republic and had put
down the rebellion. That was the
triumph of the Republican party. He
had long feared the party and it's cause,
which he had refused to support in any
way. He had pitted the Copperhead
against the Republican and been worst
ed. He had tried the effect of Demo-
cratic apathy and falsehood against Re-
publican energy and truth, and been
foiled. He had shuffied out of paying
his income-tax to support the expenses
of the war, and declined to give even to
the Christian Commission, but the battle
went on and the commission did good
During all this time Mr.. Tilden gloried
in his Democratic principles and made
money, and Mr.. Tweed did the same;
and the two Democrats lived as if they
were brothers. They were brothers, in
deed, whose political affections inter
laced while their pockets were enlarged.
And as both had suffered from the
pleasures of imagination, and both had
undergone with the Democratic party
the defeat which they had feared in so
cowardly manner, they assumed the
role of afflicted Democrats whose sorrow
could only be assuaged by money-mak-
ing. The character of both of them was
slightly iy-blown while thus engaged,
which drove them into each others
bosom; but Tilden's heart had gone
lower if his pockets were full. 1t was
lively sight Mr.. Boss Tweed, the mas
ter of the Democratic party, and Mr..
Tilden, the great Democratic manipu-
lator, who played into the hands of his
great friend, while the hands of the great
Happy pairl Tweed and Tilden, or Til.
den and Tweed! Leader and follower;
and follow my leader. Unsophisticated
twain! Tweed wanted statue for his
sterling Democratic honesty, which Til
den was willing to give him. Both had
had grandfathers, and both were gray
headed, except Tweed, who was little
bald. And as the statue to Tweed's
Democratic integrity had fallen through
from some kleptolunacy of the Great
Chief, MIR. Tilden secretly commenced
the erection of statue to himself in the
pose of "Reformer bidding for the
Presidency" with barrel of greenbacks
for the pedestal! This was unhappy.
Tweed was unable TO bear Tilden's in
gratitude and fed from his gaze, and
Mr. Tilden jumped into his shoes as the
head of the Democratic party.
This was cowardly and selfish withal.
All that Mr. Tilden ever did politically
was for self and party. He feared the
Republican party, and the Democratic
party feared and still fear it, For twenty
five years past the Democratic party has
never done one good, patriotic action.
The policy of the Republican party has
been one of justice, integrity and the
protection of the rights of men. In the
South the Democratic rebels have en-
dangered them. The country win look
to the strong arm of the law to make the
Republican voter safe when he casts his
ballot. Mr.. Tilden has been named as
the Democratic candidate for the Presi-
dency from his want of sympathy with