The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-07-27
TiIden,s Course in the War.
rFrom a Speech by Gen, Fitzpatrick

lFrom Speech by Gen. Kilpatrick.]
But Gov. Hayes was no ordinary soldier
He rose steadily through all the grades to the
rank of Major General and when the war was
over he returned to his quiet home honored
alike by the people of his own State and those
of the entire country. Will some one tell me
what Gov. Tilden was doing during all this
time? Did he go to the War? Did he make
war speeches? TCries of No.'l Did he write
letter ? Yes, he wrote a letter saying
that a State had right to secede from
the Union if the people of that State
desired. But Gov. Hayes wrote letter in
which he stated that he would rather die on
the field of battle than have it said that war
took place in this country in which he took no
part. [Applause.l Gov. Tiden did not go at
all, but stayed at home and became the lawyer
of railroad corporations, and in 1864, when we
had conquered great deal of the Southern
States. when Grant had pushed his army
through the Wilderness, when the great Sher-
man had almost completed his great march
Tapplause1 and when we had recaptured from
a powerful foe more territory than the half of
Europe, this same Gov. Tilden goes to Chicago
and there puts in this cowardly resolution,
''The war is failure and must cease"
Misses
Now, the time may have come when the
American people are perfectly satisfied to see
such man occupy the highest gift in their pos
session. They may SO far have forgotten the
wounds of the war and the slaughter Of those
noble bows who gave their lives to save the ma
ton. that they are willing to see placed in the
Presidential chair a man who never struck
blow for his country in it's hour of need but
do not believe it. [Great applause.] And I
believe as Gen. Dix said, that if we all had
done as Gov. Tilden DID, this country
would be shattered into thousand
pieces Let us go forth from this meeting
tonight resolved to do our duty as we
have never done it before. Let us remember
that the war is over and the country saved in
spite of Gov Tilden and those who would make
him President let us remember that the
amendments to our constitution have been rat
fled and are to-day the law of the land to be
maintained let us remember that we have
thus far maintained the plighted faith of the
nation in spite of him ; let us remember that
we have thus far maintained our public system
of instruction [great applausel, that has
been the salvation of this country and
if you would preserve the land of
your fathers in all it's purity, if YOU
would transmit it not dishonored to your chill
dren's children, if you would maintain the
great principles for which we fought and for
which our comrades died on the battlefield. if
YOU would keep the nations faith as honest
men-honest as individuals and honest to the
Governmental you would maintain our sys-
tenn of instruction, if you would reform the
Government from one end to the other. then
strike Gov Tilden and the Democratic party as
our fathers struck for freedom. TApplauseJ
Strike it as we struck the black curse of sIa-
very in the hours of rebellion strike it as YOU
would strike for ur homes and your fresides
God and your native land. prolonged ap-
plause