The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-15
A BLAST FOR TILDEN.
LETTER FROM A DIsTuNGUusHEn
POLITICIAN URGING HIS RE-
NOMINATION.
why He should Ue supported by the
sOuth-A strong NEWSPAPER Article
Sustaining This View.

WASHINGTON, April 9, 1870.
To tho Editor Of the Democrat:
The lnolossd article from the Baltimore
Telegram presents some Views which think
ought to be considered by The Southern pso-
pie, and therefore hope you will have II repltt-
lished. That the lobby Is making an organ
i5ed effort TO array the South against Tildsn
because Of his opposition TO their scheme Of
plumber by appeals to the sectional feeling Of
the South Is undeniable. The lobby of the
Texas Pacific Railroad Company Ia only n
part Of this organization.
The whole jobbing interest is IN the league
against Tilden. Now. the question for the
South to decided is whether It can be influenced
by appeals TO Its sectional prejudice TO abau-
don the issue On the fraud and on reform and
take up candidate whose nomination win
raise the currency Issue, upon which the
party Is divided, and thus insure the rs-elec-
tion Of Grant. On the other hand, If the
Southern people will now put down these ap-
peals TO Southern sectionalsm and rally for
Tiden's denomination, to assert the right OF
ths people to elect their President and TO
purify and reform the government they will
so vindieate themselves from the chargs Of
| seeking to control the government as to dis
arm Northern seetionalism and enable the
Democratic party to carry the North as well
ms the South on the great issues Of fraud and
reform. On this issue of fraud, as stated in
the Telegram article the facts are unfisputed.
| If upon this issue we can enter the contest
dssrnbarrassed Of the sectional issue, we
shall have the sympathy OF all the true
friends Of popular government, and our VIC
tory will be overwhelming. The result will
be the total elimination oil seetienalism from
our politics hereafter. This will give new
| life to the South. It's fertile lands, Its water
| power its coal and iron mines and other great
natural advantages WILL III we can lift that
weight from It, give 1t d degree Of prosperity
1t has never known.
| Are not these then the considerations which
the men who love the South ought to weigh
instead Of the paItry esctIoueeTtng appsafs
made to their prejudicss against Tiiden, be-
cause he was OF the old Van Buren, and
Wright party2 II the Southern people are
sincere In letting by-gones be by-gones
as respects the slave questions, they will not
hesitate to support .Tildsn, for on every other
question bnt that he has shown himself 10 be
the representative man OF Southern opinions.
He is q free trader and an economist Of the
most approved type.
rhe editor Of the Telegram is himself o
Southern man Of the ultra States rights
school, and his grandfather, Abel 2. Upshur.
OF Virginia, whose ability and character he
inherits, was Secretary of the Navy In Mr..
Tylsr's Calhoun Cabinet. and among the
most illustrious men OF that school. His
ardent support OF Tildsn comes altogether
from seeing that that Is the way to deliver
his people from the bondage Of Radealsm
and to restore them to prosperity.
Yours truly, M. B..