The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-05-31

gust, so far at least, as the election,
is concerned.
Tildcn and the Electoral Count.
Nothing has so strongly evinced
the sclf.possession and craftsmanship
of Mr.. Tildon as the unpurturbed and
discreet manner in which he has met
and maintained himself in the midst
of the widest and most intricate cam
paign the nation has ever known
Neither the desperate and dishonest
intriguing of his opponents, nor the
Hattering and often impolitic meas.
ures pressed uponhim by his friends,
nor the fascinating prize Of the Pres
idency lawfully within his grasp and
as unlawfully snatched from him,
served to disturb his equaninity or
lure him a single pace from states
manlikc and patriotic attitude.
Notwithstanding the continued
predictions that are ahoat that Mr..
Tilden would yet make a move toward
asserting his legal claims to the Pres.
idency, and although there are, doubt
less influences still at work to bring
about. as well as able men who are
willing to espousc his cause, because
they believe it to be the cause Of the
Nation, of honor, and good govern
ment, yet Mr.. Tilden keeps his own
counsel, and may be relied upon to
deal with the subject to the end, in
] such a manner as will be creditable
to his character and that will meet
the appreciation of the American
people.
In this connection, the Baltimore
Sun reports an interview with Mr..
Tilden as follows:
Gan eminent citizen of Alabama,
who passed through Washington yes
terday on his way back from New
York, had, while in that city, an
interview with Mr.. Tilden. Hesaid
to Mr.. Tilden that the people of the
South were convinced that he had
been fairly and lawfully elected to
the Presidency of the United States;
that the people of that section, in
common with the great body of the
people of the whole United States,
thought that Mr.. Tilden, us the law
fully elected ruler of the country,
should have taken early after the
election decided attitude and insist.
ed upon his rights; that had he done
so, and the proper announcement OF
the vote of the electoral colleges been
prevented, the House of Representa-,
tive would have elected him accord
ing to the forms of law, and made it
self responsible for his induction in,
to the office which belonged to him
Mr.. Tilden listened intently to the
remarks of his visitor, a gentleman
nearly twenty years his senior. He
replied that he had thought careful,
Ily and most conscientuosly over the
subject in all its possible phases; that
he had become convinced that should
he adopt the course suggested it would
be resisted by the radical party to the
extent of drenching the land in blood
that he shrunk from the responsible,
ity of prccipiatating another civil
war upon his countrymen, and con,
sentcd to the compromise which
averted so dread disaster. He felt
as keenly as any one the impropri-
ETY. of the means by which the pres,
ent result had been brought about
but, for all that, he did not regret his
own action. AS it was the people of
the United States understood it; the
Democratic party to-day occupied
such proud attitude before the coun,
try rs it had never occupied before
and no mortal power could resist its
triumphal march to success in $780,
In a little speech, the other day,
jefferson Davis said; "Thrico and
four times am thankful for the in
| dicntions which the day brings to us