The Portland daily press., 1876-09-02
[From the Albany Evening Journall
Specimens of Tiiden's Patriotism and
Hanaofv

l. When every patriotic heart was stirred
by the rebel assault upon the Union flag in 81,
Tilden made no sign of sympathy with the
grand uprising of the people.
2 When asked to sign the call for the first
Union meeting in the metropolis he perempto-
rily refused.
3. When every loyal man and woman and
child in the North, who had dime or dollar
to spare was contributing to the patriotic fund
in aid OF the government, Tilden refused to
contribute farthing from his great wealth.
A. When every loyal speaker in the land
was uttering words of hope and good cheer,
and when the whole North rang with shouts Of
vehement patriotism, Tilden was dumb and in
differentwilling that the Union should be dis
membered aud treason triumph, rather than
contribute dime or utter sentence to avert
the threatened overthrow of the republic
.. When loyal men of all parties were
united in their denunciation of secession as
heresy aud crime, Tilden was writing letters
and making speeches to prove that any state, if
backed by its local public opinion, had right
to Withdraw from the Union; that the general
government had no right to ''coerce" such
state back to allegisnce, and that if the at
tempt Were made the stale would have the
would TO repel invasion.
While the war was in progress, and
when the life of the republic hung in the bal
ance; while the nation and the people were
straning every nerve to overthrow the rebel
lion. and to punish treason Tiiden "made no
sigu" of sympathy with the country or with
the brave men who were fighting its battles.
q. In 1864, when the rebellion was being
pushed to the wall, and when it was evident
to every careful observer that the war must
alO hxrt thn anla Oe Il
army, Tilden, by cooperating with Northern
Copperheads and Knights of the Golden Circle,
gave them heart and hope, and, by the action of
theChicago convention, which declared the war
a "failure and that it must cease" prolonged
the war through an additional twelve-month
and paved the way for the slaughter of an
additional hundred thousand boys in blue.
g. While every one who had drop of pa;-
riotc blood in his veins stood ready to shed it
for his beloved county, Tilden was busy wreck
ing railroads and embezzing stock and bonds
from the widows and orphans of ST. Louis aud
Terre Haute.
8 Tilden was not satisfied with Withholding
every dollar of his own great wealth IRON the
patriotic fund during the war, but lit is specif-
cally charged) sought in 1862 by the basest
means, to defraud the Government out of its
lawful due by falsely stating his income Par
simony and disloyalty, as illustrated in the war
time action of this great reformer, needed but
the addition of fraud and perjury to round out
mistakable lineaments of a first class rogue.
10. Tilden started out as "reformer,"
pledged to punish the ''cana thieves who
had for years been depicting the treasury.
But he has accomplished nothing, except to
give him an opportunity to bargain with these
thieves for their votes as the price of immunity
from further persecution.
IL. Protesting determined purpose to pun
ish all offenders and 10 permit the law to take
its course, he is pardoning convicted criminals
by the score TO secure their votes for himself
and his party.
II While pretending great love for civil
service and ostensibly, condemning official
interference in elections, Tilden permits clerks
and deputies paid by the people to neglect
their business to attend to politics, and COM
pels subordinates to do clerical work in the
committee-rooms of his party.
13 Having done nothing to save the Repub-
lie from the hands of armed traitors to make
him President of country they sought to de-
stroy.