The Van Buren press., 1879-08-23
JACKSON'S TRIUMPH.
=" lie Was Treated az the Republic
cans Have Treated Tilden."


From Col. Woolfolk's Holona (Mon.) Independent
Our kilograms OF to day, inform us
that the New York Herald has volun.
teored some advice to the sage of Gram
merey park. 1t bids him withdraw from
the presidential race. We do not won
der. The guilty Macbeth bade the shade
OF the murdered Banquo avaunt and
quit his sight. We repeat, we do not
wonder that the Herald and the entire
republican press denounee President Til
den that they busy themselves in cir.
culating ISLANDERS to his discrcdt, and
that they do what they can to undermine
his standing and influence with his own
party. The secret is plain. He repre-
sents in his person the great and irrepa-
rablc wrong perpetrated by the republi-
can party upon free institutions. la his
person tho will Of the majority WAS
stricken down. lie is the victim Of Il
great fraud IA fraud which was patent at
the time, but which has since become
doubly so from the confessions Of many
of its perpetrators. lie walks the earth,
to-day, a living reproach to the knavos,
and sehemers and miscreants, who in the
name of law, subverted justice, and who
in the name of the ballot, delrauded the
ballot of its fruits Tho republican lead
ers fear Tidon, and we'll they may. They
have not forgotten the history of An
drew Jackson. jackson was II candidate
or the presidency, and no QUO having II
majority on the popular vote, the clec-
ton went into the house OF representa-
tivos. 1t was charged that, by "bargain
and corruption" Jackson was cheated
out OF the presidency, and John Quincy
Adams substituted in his place. The
Whig party, in all the fulIncss of its
fame, and armed with all the power of
the federal government, and the wealth
and influence of the national bank,
solght to crush Jackson, after it had
wronged him. lie was treated AS the
republicans have treated Tilden, lie was
denounced and slandered. His private
life was invaded, and every secret fault
dragged 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 swindled out
of the presidency. No detraction or
slander could etiaee this idea. His cause
became the cause Of the people against
politicians On this issue Jackson was
aiterward triumphantly elected, just as
Tilden will be if nominated. The issue
will not alone be whether democracy is
right, but whether u wrong has been
done that ought to be redressed.
Tho republican leaders hate Tildon rs
well as fear him. 1t has been said that
it is natural to hate man after you
have injured him. Hence the bitterness
with which the republican press have
denounced Mr.. Tiden f.; hence the ran
oour with which they have followed him
even into private life. After robbing
him of the presidency, it is natural that
they should decry and blackcn and damn
him, because his very name is odious to
them. He is the horrible spectre that
rises out of tho darkness of the past to
startlo their souls, and dampon their en-
,husiasm. They know that soon they
must meet the democracy in n grand
struggle for the possession of national
power. They are already marshaling
their cohorts, for the coming battle. Like
bloody Richard on the ovc of
Bosworth field, they are atirghted by
the terrible appartion of their wrong,
who rises on their visions to bid them
(" despair and die" and to speak words
of cheering and of hope to the rallying
lcgions of democracy
Up, then, with the name Of Tilden !!
If, in the coming contest, we could un
furl ten thousand standards to the bat
tic and tho breeze, we would bazon
them all with tho namo of this calm,
dignifod, self poised statesman-silent
in the midst Of vituperation and calum-
ny-biaing his time, and appealing to
the American people for his vindication.
Up with his name 1t will be worth
thousands upon thousands of voters to
the democracy in the coming struggle.
Ambitious congressman and senator's
may endcavor to slaughter him as they
did Jackson, but he is the peoples can
didato for president. The people will
rally to his support, and the swelling
tide of popular enthusiasm will bear
him to the haven of victory.
That's the way to talk !! When such
view as the above is taken, the misty
vapors of doubt and inadvisablity arc
removed and we are driven irresistibly
to but one conclusion-that Tilden is
the coming man--spite of the far-see
ing sagaeity and the great influence ii
must exercise over the action Of the ma.
tional convention Tildon is head and
shoulders above any man who has yet
been mentioned for the presidency.