Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-06-21
GOVERNOR TILDEN SPEAKS AT LAST.

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GOVERNOR TILDEN SPEAKS AT LAST.
At an ovation given Mr.. Hendricks, in
New York, last week, on the occasion of his
departure for Europe, Governor Tilden made
brief speech which is reported as follows :
Everybody knows that after the recent
election the men who we're elected by the peo-
ple President and Vice President of the Uni
ted States were "counted out" and men who
were not elected "counted in" and seated. l
disclaim any thought of the personal wrong
involved in this transaction. Not by any act
or word of mine shall that be degraded into
personal grievances, which in truth is the
greatest wrong that has stained our national
annals. To every man of the four and q
quarter millions who were defrauded of the
fruits of their elective franchise, it is as great
q wrong as it 10 to me, and no less to every
man of the minority will the ultimate conse-
quences extend. Evils in government grow
by success and impurty. They do not arrest
their own progress. They can never be limi-
ted except by external forces. If the men in
possession of the government can in one in
stance maintain themselves in power against
an adverse decision at the elections, such an
example will be initiated, Temptation exists
always devices to give the color of law and
false pretences on which to found fraudulent
decisions will not be wanting. The wrong
will grow into practice if once condoned.
In the worlds history, changes in the success
ion Of governments have usually been the re-
suit of fraud or force. 1t has been our faith
and our pride that we had established mode
of peaceful change to be worked out by the
agency of the ballot box. The question now
is whether our elective system, in its substance
as we'll as its form, is to be maintained. This
is the question of questions. Until it is finally
settled there can be 10 politics founded on in
ferior questions Of administrative policy. 1t
involves the fundamental right Of the people,
it involves the elective principle, it involves
the whole system of popular government.
The people must signally. condemn the great
wrong which has been done to them. They
must strip the example of everything that can
attract ;imitatiogs. They must refuse 9 pros
porous immunity to crime, This is not all.
The people will not be able to trust the authors
or bene6ciaries of the wrong to devise rem
edies, but when those who condemn the wrong
shall have the power they must devise the
measure which shall render repetition: Of the
wrong forever impossible. If my voice could
reach throughout our country and be beard
in its remotest hamlet, would say: be of
good cheer, the Republic will live, the insti-
tutions of our fathers are not to expire in
shame the 'sovereignty Of the people shall be
rescued from this peril and re-established.
Successful wrong never appears 80 triumphant
as on the very eve of its fall. Seven years
ago a,corrupt dynasty eliminated in its pow
er over the million of people who live in the
city of New York. 1t had conquered or
bribed OF hattered and won almost everybody
into acquiescence. It appeared to beinvine-
BILE. A year or two later its members were in
the penitentiaries or in exile. History abounds
in similar examples-we must believe in the
right and in the future. A great and noble
nation will not sever its political from its
moral life. ... ..... -.. .... ,.,. ...
Mr.. Hendricks was also called upon, and
after returning thanks for the honor done him,
made brief address. Abiding to the Presi-
Dental election he said: =: :s."..~*'
The result as declared in Louisiana and in
Florida, and at Washington, is not and can
not be made satisfactory to the country, for
the obvious reason that it was not true A
great and sincere people will rest their final
Judgment only upon the truth, and never up
on frauds successful through technically.
Even should the President aud his Cabinet
adopt part or the whole of the. policies and
purposes for which the Democratic party has
been confronting for N any years, and which
became so distinctly defined last year, even
that cannot remove or quiet the public dis
content. The Democrats will make no fac
tious opposition, nor will they seek to embar-
rass the de facto administration, but will sus-
tain it in what is right, and for the welfare Of
the country, and not at all because of any
fealty to the party that stands defeated and
condemned by the people. The people can
not allow the selection of their Chief Magis-
trate to become thing of chance, or Of sharp
practice. The fraud now FIRST triumphant in
American history must be assigned to its
proper place among the crimes against popu-
Jar government, and made 80 odious that no
party will dare to attempt its repetition. Re
who is made President must be inaugurated.