The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-08-26
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The New York Herald, up to Saturday
last, had been staunch supporter of Gov.
Tildens nomination for the Presidency.
On that morning, however, change seems
to have leone over the spirit of its DREAM"
it apparently gave up the contest, and adj
mits that there is little or no hope of his
election. 1t denounces the Democrats for
their blunders, and declares that Gov. Til
denis letter is muddle which few can
understands; but, intelligently interpreted,
it is complete surrender of his principles
to desire to make himself an "available
candidate" in the West. Here is an ex
tract from the Herald's article:
elm the South all is going badly-Ala-
bama maiorities, Hamburg massacres, and
the virtual condoning of these massacress
by public opinion. all make an uneasy i'm
preston on the North. The action of the
Democratic Convention in South Carolina
is another blunder. The irreconcilable ele
ment of the party throws away the State
in order to nominate Wade Hampton. 1t
declares war upon every colored man, every
Northern man, every Southern man, like
Mosby and Longstreet, who does not agree
with them, and invokes a canvass of bitter
ness and hatred"
Here is what it says of the letters of
Gov. Hayes and Tilden:
"The letter of Hayes is short, manly,
ringing. There is not a sentence which is
not plain to the humblest mind. There is
not an issue which he does not accept in
simple way. When we have read it we
understand it. On the other hand the let
ter of Tilden reads like a charter from
some German work on Metaphysics, and
will have about as much effect on the can
vass. 1t is able, learned, wise, but, so far
as the masses are concerned, above the
clouds. We can think of nothing mole
absurd than plain farmer, anxious to vote
intelligently, and trying to fathom the
meaning of Gov. Tilden's elaborate and
mysterious essay and compilation.
Worse than ALL Tilden's letter, when we
come to analyze it, contains a surrender
OF the two men-Tilden and Hendricks
the latter makes the better figure. He
went into the canvass flying his greenback
flag. and he still flies it. Tilden went in
carrying his gold embroidered specie flag,
but he furls it. No amount of explana-
ton can do away with the fact that Tilden
surrenders his convictions in behalf of hard
money to conciliate the inilationists in the
West. He demands the repeal of the Re
sumption act for no other reason, because
it is the only reason. The question at once
arises, If we have a candidate who surren-
ders and vacillates, what shall we have if
he is President %
Had any other prominent journal in the
country shown such a change of heart, it
would have been something remarkable
Such an article in the Herald, however, is
noteworthy, simply as indicating the gen
eral sentiment of the country. The Herald
is keen and shrewd observer, necessarily
so to enable it to trim its sails to catch the
popular breeze. Noting now the way the
wind is blowing, it hastens to part COM
pany with the sinking Tilden ship and
make ready to jump aboard the staunch
and successful steamship Hayes" Only
in the sense of being "a straw to show
which way the wind blows " are the above
extracts from the Herald at all remarkable