Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-09-11

long after that both Congress and the |
president refused to make the war an
anti-slavery conflict, though | believe
they had perfect right to do so.
Third. AS regards the Aristocracy of
the Roman church, agree with you en-
tirely, and consider it perfectly legiti-
mate issue for the people of Italy and
Spain, but mere political poppycock in
America.
Fourth, AS to Mr.. Tilden's war re-
cord, l will simply ask you to PRINT the
following, and to remind you that Chas.
W. Adams, who was an original free
soiler, and F. A. Bird, the bosom friend
of John Brown. Gov. Andrew and Chas.
Sumner, endorse Mr.. Tilden's loyalty
and support him for the presidency.
wish to add my testimony by say
ing that, during the war of the rebellion,
had several interviews with Gov. Til
den on the subject of the prospects of
the war, and ever found him ardent and
earnest in its support. If / have not
known Mr.. Tilden as long and as init
mately as did Mr.. Lincoln, l think /
certainly know his sentimenton the sub
ject of the late war and there would be
as much propriety in saying that Mr..
Lincoln was an anti-war republican as
that Samuel ]. Tliden was an anti-war
democrat. Judge j. d. Cation of Hi
nois, personal friend of Lincoln's.
Fifth, As regards Tweed. it is mat
ter of record, that Tilden fought Tweed
and his ring charter (under which the
frauds were committed) from tie start
as witness the following from the N. Y.
Times, published at the time aug. II,
1870:
There were few indignant protests
against the scheme uttered by such high
toned Democrats as Samuel j. Tilden
and others of his character, but they
were without effect, for Tweed and Swee-
ny had the voters already bought up.
Of all the Republican Senators, Senator
Thayer alone is on record as voting
against it.
Sixth, OF Mr.. Tilden's wealth l have
! no doubt, though presume if the sum
, named by you were divided by ten, it
would be nearer the truth. l have moth
. ing against rich men, as such, but
! against rich men who use their riches to
: wrong the poor. believe Gen. Hayes
is reckoned a millionaire.
y Seventh, The perjury charge-this il
4 so manifestly campaign lie that
i, think every decent editor who, in thu
i excitement of the canvass, allows himsel
" to print it, will be sorry afterwards
v This is called an era of reform. One o
n the most pressing reforms needed, i
= strikes me, is reform that would re
D. lieve the public newspapers from becom
i ing sewers of lies during every politica
It campaign. 1t is the disgrace of GU
t. country and the ruin of our politics. ]
ne belittles the profession of journalist
III more than all things else.
st The honor of all our great public mel
ed no matter of which party, ought to /
I'd dear to every citizen. 1t ought to |
ng with an averted, rather than triumph
RI ant face that an editor, in the cause
truth, exposes tie crime of public Sc
he want. But where there as guilt, let Il
IN exposure be unsparing, and the punis
are ment full and speedy.
,rk / am glad the republican candidat
ed are now without personal stain I
no joice in their unblemished record. If t
The candidates of the democracy are not m
Of like integrity, want to know it.
Mr.. Tilden is a perjurer, a traitor-ns
ore if he has in any degree paltered wi
the the truth, or wronged or sought to wrO
ag- his country, he is unfit to be preside
any But the campaign lie"-who has !
ms, heard of it-what shall we say of it, a
cal of the campaign liar? Il. H. H
OF NeUport, Sept 4, 1876.