The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-06-13
TILDEN MAKES A SPEECH
In Which He Weeps for His Country's Dis
grace And His Own Loss Of the Presidency.

New YORK, June 10.
At the Manhattan club banquet Gov.
Tilden said Everybody knows that after
the recent election the men who were
elected by the people president and vice.
president of the United States were
"counted out" and the men who were not
elected were ''counted in" and seated. 1
disclaim any thought Of personal wrong in-
or word Of mine shall that be dwarfed or
degraded into personal grievance which
10 in truth the greatest wrong that has
stained our national annals. To every
man of the four and quarter million who
were defrauded of the fruits of their cleo
tive franchise 1t is as great wrong as 1t is
to me and no less; to every man of the mi
nority will the ultimate consequences ex-
tend.
Evils in government grow by success
and by impurity they do not arrest their
own progress; they can never be limited
except by external force. If men in pos
session of a government can in one instance
maintain themselves in power against an
adverse decision at elections, such an ex-
ample will be initiated. The temptation
exists always. Devices to give color of
law and false pretences on which to found
fraudulent decisions, will grow into
practice if once condoned. In the worlds
-, t,o of
ernments have usually been the result of
fraud or force.
1t has been our faith and our pride that
we had established more of a peaceful
change to be worked out by the ballot box.
The question now is whether our elective
system In its substance, as well as its form,
of questions. Until it is finally settled
there can be no politics founded on inferior
questions of administrative policy. 1t in
wolves the fundamental rights of the peo-
pie; it involves the election principle; it
involves the whole system of popular gov
ernment.
The people must signally condemn the
great wrong which has been done to them ;
they must strip the example of everything
that can attract imtators; they must re-
fuse prosperous immunity to crime. This
is not all. The people will not be able to
trustl the authors or benefciaries of the
wrong to devise remedies, but when those
who condemn the wrong shall have power
they n-st aovise measures which shall
render a repetition of the wrong forever
impossible.
| II my voice could reach throughout the
country and be heard in its remotest ham,
let, would say: Be Of good cheer. The
republic will live. The institutions of our
fathers are not to expire in shame. The
sovereignty Of the people shall be rescued
from this peril and re-established. Sue
cessful wrong never appears so triumphant
as on the very eve of Its fall. Seven years
ago a corrupt dynasty eliminated in its
power over a million of people who live in
the city of New York. 1t had conquered,
or bribed, or flattered, and won almost
everybody in acquiescence. 1t appeared to
be invincible. A year or two later its
members were in penetentiaries or in exile.
History abounds in similar examples. We
must believe in the right and the future.
A great and noble nation will not sever its
political from its moral life.
Governor Hendricks also talked to the
extent Of column or more.
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