San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-08-31
A Chapter Of Unwritten His
tory.

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tory.
From the Louisville Courier.Journal.
During the dismal winter of 1862,
Albert Sidney johnson, "the greatest
man, civil or military, Federal or Con-
foderate," who appeared during our
sectional war, lay at Bowling Green
with little army Of half.disclplined.
half-equipped troops. With this poor
force he held the armies of the Union
at bay for nearly six months. By an
inactivity which was matchless, and,
indeed, mastery he outwitted his ad.
yersaries, checking an enemy which
had only to advance to drive him away,
and holding an important line by STRAIT
egy, where the display of prowess
would have been fatal. Finally, he
made a superb retreat, formed a new
line, and having worked out the great.
est military movement Of modern
times, threw himself, with crushing
force, upon Grants army at Shiloh.
1t was not until be had fallen in the
flush Of splendid victory that all the
facts came out, and the people awoke
to their loss Down to his death he
had been bounded by the public and
the press as a blunderer and coward
as one who had the courage neither to
do anything or say anything. He be-
came the most odious man in tho Con.
federacy. But, with the composure OF
conscious genius, and the sclf-repres-
sion of hero, he kept his peace, and
proceeded to do his duty regardless of
the prevailing clamorous and cruel in
justice.
The tragic episode furnishes lesson
which the people of the South should
never forget; lesson which flashes
suggestive moral to the people of every
CLINE, but particularly to Republi-
can people, who are too apt to take
restlessness for action, to mistake si-
lence for dolessness, to trust over
much in sound and fury; who are Of
ten unwilling to wait for develop
ments, leaping at conclusions and
forming rash judgments on half-told
tales, or falsely-told tales, to the in
jury and discredit of themselves, the
discontinue and disgrace of their
leaders. Thus have many States been
wrecked and popular battles lost.
We publish this morning from the
pen of Manton Marble a most lumin-
GUS and interesting chapter of hither-
to but partially written political his
tory.
Mr.. Marble fills all the missing links
10 the chain which connects Mr.. Til
den to the period lying between the
election day and the electoral bill.
Running rapidly over the situation
which Immediately followed the de.
feat of the Republicans, and the con-
sequent Inauguration of the Radical
conspiracy to overturn the election and
seat Hayes in spite of it, be shows
that Mr.. Tilden was the one man who
took in the whole case and provided a
plan to compass it. That plan was for
the House of Representatives to exer
else its constitutional right to share in
the count of the vote, no State TO be
counted except by the concurrence of
both houses, precisely as had been
done in all preceding elections, each
State lacking the concurrence of the
two houses to be thrown out: in the
event of failure of either candidate |
by this process of throwing out to se-
cure a majority of all the votes, the |
House to elect the President and the |
Senate to elect the Vice President.
That was Mr.. Tildens plan, pure aud
simple. II sprang directly from the /
Constitution, the Law and the practice. !
To o~s- -e.ch II the concentrations rnust