The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-14
Samuel .D.'Tnden.

ago, a prominent Democratic politi-
clan in Missouri, and more recently
editor of the Helena (Montanna) In
dependent, hoists the name of Sam.
uel J. Tilden for the Presidency in
the following ringing editorial:
SAMUEL j. TILDNN.
Our kilograms of to-day inform
us that the New York Herald has
volunteered some advice to the sage
of Gramercy park. 1t bids him
withdraw from the Presidential race.
We do not wonder. The guilty
Macbeth babe the shade Of the
murdered Banquo avannt and quit
his sight. We repeat, we do not
wonder that the Herald and the en-
tire Republican press denounce
President Tilden; that they busy
themselves in circulating ISLANDERS
to his discrcdit, and that they do
what they can to undermine his
standing and influence, eve with
his own party. The secret is plain.
He represents in his person the
great and irreparable wrong per
petrated by the Republican party
upon free institutions. In his per-
son the will of the majority was
stricken down. He is the victim Of
a great fraud-a fraud which was
patent at the time, but which has
since become doubly so, from the
confessions of many of its perpctra-
tors. He walks the earth to-day
a living rcproach to the knaves and
schcmcrS and miscreants, who, in
the name Of the law, subverted
justice, and who, in the name of the
ballot, defraudcd the ballot Of its
fruits. The Republican leaders
fear Tildcn, and well they may.
They have not forgotten the history
of Andrew Jackson. Jackson was a
candidate for the Presidency, and no
one having a majority IN the popu-
lar vote the election went into the
House of Representatives. 1t was
charged that by bargain and cor
ruption,' Jackson was cheated out
of the Presidency and john Quincy
Adams substituted in his place. The
Wing party, in the fulness of its
fame and armel With all the power
OF the federal Government and the
wealth and influence ofthc national
bank, sought 70 crush Jackson after
it had wrouged him. He was treat
ed as the Republicans have treated
Tilden. He was denounced and
slandered. His private life was in
vaded and every secret fault drag
ged forth to public scrutiny by his
foes. But one grand idea had taken
possession of the popular mind, and
that was that Jackson had been
swindlcd out of the Presidency. No,
dctraction or SANDER could cface
this idea. His cause became the
cause of fair dealing against in
trigue-the cause of the people
against the politicians. On this is
was aiIci "dIuS Iliullpi
antly elected, Just as lllden VIII be
II nominated. The issue VIII not
alone be whether Democracy IS right
but whether 2 wrong mas been done
that ought o hH redresSed.
The Republican leaders hate Til
den as well as fear nm. 1t has
been sad that 1t IS natural to
hate man after YOU nave Injured
INN Hence me bitterness Wltl
when inc hcpiihli'2A press ave uc
nounced NJ. lllien-hehEc me ran
cor Wita Which tAeE nave !0i!oWei
ann even INTO the S'r,n-lol OF PR
vac lie, A''"r f""bI4E lli:n O. l1e
presidency. 1t L natural that they
sho'rid de"rY ami biactea amt d1mn
him, hrcauSe ms very nam" is "tInS
f. then. He Is the h1rr' lie Spectre
t1a5 RISES out OF the darkness OF the
past, to startle their souls, ana
damp1r their catAu'la m They
know that soon they must meet the
Democracy IN q Grand struggle i0rI
the possession ot NATIONAL power,
They are already ma~rsI'alllng then
coharts for the coming battle. Like
Enlands bloody Rlchar0 on the eve
OF BoSworth Field, they are alright
ed by the terrible ~appa1tloH OF the
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