The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-04
Nlden's Record,

Nlden's Record.
From Harper's Weekly, Sept 49, H.
Mr.. Manton Marble truly says that
Mr.. ilden's ''position in respect: to
the war was never open to the SLIGHT.
est doubt. 80 Tt certainly was not.
In 1854 he said to Preston King that
the formation Of the Republican party
in opposition to the slave oligarchy
t.'would either be apolitical blunder,
or it would be a political crime, in Gre
ating q conflict in which. the govern
ment would probably perish"
In October, 1850, he wrote to vii.
liam Kent that the trainers of the Con-
stitution 'srecognized no right of con.
stitutional secession, but they left rev.
olution organized when it should be
demanded by the public opinion of a
State left it with power to snap the
tie of confederation, as nation might
break treaty, and to repel coercion,
as a nation might repel invasion.''
In February, 1861, he declared at
the Tweddle Hall Convention that she
for one would resist, under any and
all circumstances, the use of force to
coerce the South into the Union.''
In April, 1861, he refused to sign
simple patriotic call for public meet
ing in New York upon the fall of Sum.
ter.
In February, 1868, he was one of
dozen of the EXTREMIST Copperheads
in the city of New York, who formed
a society to publish and diffuse, in the
darkest hour of the war, the most
virulent ''Copperhead" speeches and
pro.slavery documents which was do.
ing the work of the rebellion as effec-
tually as shipping arms and ammuni.
ton to the rebels. This society of
Mr.. Tilden's published among other
things, a speech of James Brooks, in
which he says that Mr.. Lincoln's proc
lamation of September, 1862, s'seems
to contemplate the exciting of the
slaves to the destruction not only of
their masters, but of women and child
rem" 1t published a speech of Mr..
Pugh in which he declared that 'sthe
war might have been avoided. l
had not Abraham Lincoln and the
leaders of the Republican party refused
constantly, persistantly, stubbornly,
refused-any terms whatever. i
We have no governor in truth we
have only a being. If I am
arrested, as may be to morrow or be-
fore shutdown, and dragged in the pres
ence of a military commission as Val
landigham was, will you act - It
published speech of Richard O'Gor-
man when Horatio Seymour was gov
ernor of New York, and the rebels
hoped he would try to withdraw the
State from the war. Mr.. O'Gorman
said, and Mr.. Tilden's society pub
lished and diffused his words, II fear
much that, under the pretext of re-
storing the Union, we are strengthen
ing the hands of those whose policy
tend to destroy our liberties. Do you
ask what, then, is to be done? [ say
the first thing to be done is to arm the
State of New York. Let our
soldiers be drilled, then, and not
merely for parades in the streets, but |
in camps of instruction, and let them |
be prepared as men to defend the
rights OF our State. Although |
the Union may fall. liberty may be
preserved, and the State may be SOW
ereign yet. Let us remember !
that each State in it's inherent sover-
eighty is independent in itself. Then
we are for the Union as long as it can
be supported" This is what Mr.. TIL
den and mis- society were publishing
and diffusing to cheer the soldiers in |
the field and strengthen the national |
patriotic purpose at home in the most |
critical moment OF the struggle. Mr..
Marble said truly that Mr.. Tilden's
"position in respect to the war was
never open to the slightest Doubt 1t
certainly was not, any more than that |
of Fernando Wood, Vallandigham, or
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