Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03
Tilden Alarmed--He Sees the Handwrit-
ing on the Wall,

Tilden Alarmed--He Sees the Handwrit-
ing on the Wall.
Mr.. Tilden has become terribly fright
ened at the sure prospect of his defeat.
His record has been so thoroughly ex-
posed that he now stands out rs the most
corrupt, dishonest and tricky candidate
that ever ran for the Presidency His CON
nection with that great thief, Boss Tweed;
his having committed perjury; his de-
frauding the Treasury out of over two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars by
Withholding that amount of taxes; his
aiding in stufflng the ballot-boxes in
1869, in New York city; his embezzle-
ment of Terre Haute Railroad bonds; his
being engaged in selling adulterated cof-
fec to the boys in blue during the war;
his swindling the laboring men of Lake
Superior by paying them deprecated
shinplasters; his wrecking railroads, thus
enabling him to accumulate his fortune
of seven millions; his sending around
pufferies of himself to Democratic news.
papers, TO be inserted at so much per
line, and thus manufacturing his fiCti.
cious reputation and securing his nomi-
nation at st. Louis; his shameless buying
votes at that convention with money; his
establishing n SANDER mill at his own ex-
pense at 90 Liberty street, New York,
where he manufactures bogus letters pur-
porting to have been written by Gov.
Hayes; his defrauding the Postoffice De-
partment by sending millions of circu.
lars through the mails, under pretense of
thoir hotnfr
stated that every Union soldier could be
prosecuted by rebel as trespasser; his
being the author of a plank in the Chica-
go platform that "the war was failure; /;
his having repudiated an honest debt
contracted in furnishing his palatial
mansion, on the ground that it could not
be legally collected, because the limita-
tion period had expired; his being the
intimate and confidential friend of no
torious gambler and ex.prize fighter; his
having connived at the escape of Will.
lam Tweed, as shown by his retaining in
office the Sheriff who allowed that thief
to escape; his having suddenly ceased
prosecuting the Canal Ring, evidently
for consideration; his devoting por-
tion of his own fortune as corruption
own election; his favoring resumption of
specie payment, and then making a som.
ersaultan opposing resumption to please
Hendricks; his afflliation with the Brook
lyn ring; his being one of the originators
and stockholders in the Credit Mobilier
swindle; his being the brother of CON
tractor who put up young dead calves
for canned meat for the use of sick and
wounded soldiers in our hospitals during
the war; his attempts to have Gov. Sey-
mour nominated as the Democratic can
didate for Governor of New York, with
the expectation that he would resign inn
mediately after being elected, and thus
wheedle Dofsheimer in as Governor; his
sending out one set of stereotyped edito
rials for use in Southern newspapers, ad-
mitting that he was opposed to the war,
and that he was sympathizer with the re-
bellion, and another set of editorials to
Northern Democratic papers, claiming
that he was good Union man; and, above
all, with such scoundrelly record as he
has, his adopting the stop thief dodge of
yelling out Reform" Reform" have
all been too much tor him to carry, and
he sees defeat him.
Now, as last resort, he has waited till
within few days of the Presidential
election, calculating that the reign of
terrorism at the South will give him the
solid vote of that section without fail,
and that the shortness of the time before
the election will prevent any serious
effect on his prospects there, he has
written letter in which he says he will
oppose the assumption of the rebel debt
and the payment for emancipated slaves.
He devoted two-thirds of his letter to
taking that position, and then stated in
the conclusion that he would oppose the
payment of all other rebel claims and
the refunding of the cotton tax. These
are the sum and substance of this
letter, written for the ex-
press purpose of endeavoring to influ-
ence the election at the North, calculat-
ing, as we said before, that it would be
too late to influence the sparsely- settled
of the immense territory of
the South, where the telegraph and daily
papers do not reach, and where his
letter cannot be read till after election
What reliance can he placed on the
words of such an arch demagogue who
will resort to deceiving eleventh-hour
letter; one who has violated his pledge
in regard to early resumption, who has
committed perjury and robbed the Gov
ernment, and who has corruptly used
money to obtain his nomination, and is
now using a portion of his immense
fortune to buy himself into the Presi-
dency?
He promised to bring the members of
the Canal Ring to punishment, and after
expending 800, 900 and furnishing only
one solitary member of that ring he
suddenly ceased his prosecution, and
thereby violated his promise. With
such record and such a character,
given in the foregoing, what is his
word worth? Not the
white paper it is written on. Should it
please Divine Providence, in His inscruta-
BILE wisdom, to allow Mr.. Tilden to oc-
cupy the Presidential chair, it will be
seen that it is not in his Copperhead ma
ture to resist the demands of the united
South for the payment of their millions
Of claims, when they remind him that he
Is indebted almost entirely to them for