New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-10-15
THE GREAT ISSUE.
LETTER FROM THURLOW WEED.

ALErTE& FROM THURLOW WEED.
SHALL THE Party WHICH SAVED TIE UNION AND
HAS BUHr Up ITS WONDERFUL PROSPERITY
GIVE PLACE TO TIE PARTY WHICH SOUGHT TO
DESTROY THG UNION AND SOW sEEKs TO EANK-
RUPr IT.
To Inc Edttor Of The Trfbune.
SIR: If the political tract which Won will find
herewith enclosed entitled the Pocket Argu-
mentr mpresses you rs favOrabiy a. 10 does me, 1t
viii find its WY to the readers Of The TRIBUNE.
have rarely seen a stronger appeal to the pockets
Of the cnterprislng. industrious and Intelligent
classes One of most prominent citizens. until
within a few months an influential Democrat, who
cannot afford to sacrifice the large business interests
intusted to him. has caused 20 900 copies of this
campaign document to be printed and circulated
am unhappily incapacltated for an active particI-
patIon IN a canvass involving the same vital Ma
lonal interests that were struck at in 1861. differ
ing only IN the circumstance that now encounter
ballots instead of bullets. Against bullets We trl-
umphed, as we should against ballots with a
free franchise and fair count. The South
is only solid because IN at least six
Southern States more than one-thrd Of their elect
ors are deprived by fraud. violence false counting
of their votes. Official returns in the election Of
1876 show that IN eleven counties Illden received
10000 votes. where only II votes were counted
for Hayes
In view of the interests involved in the present
canvass the result ought not 10 be in doubt. A Re-
publican triumph secures a continuance of UMPIRE
cedented prosperty-prosperity which reaches the
capitalist the merchant, the manufacturer, the
mechanic and the labOrer On the other hand, VIC
tory won by an alliance between Southern Rebels
and Northern Copperheads threatens us not only
with q business paralysis, but with an avalanche OF
Rebel claims, aggregatng incompatible millions.
% fl,a ala frnqfp a a
stitutional Amendments are to be declared void By
the decentralization Of highest judicial trlDu-
nal
We are largely indebted for the preservation of
the Government and the Union to loyal Democrats,
who when Rebellion confronted them, rose
from partIsanshIp TO patriotism. Prompted
by Davis, Toombs Hampton and other
Confederate leaders South again solid against
the Union bur- unfortunately, James = Wads-
worth Dean Richmond. William +. Allen and other
patriotic Democrats, are not here again 10 kndle
enthusiasm in their friends There WILL II the
worst comes. be small consolation in the knowledge
that Democrats like Republicans, will reap what
they have sown, aggravated in their case by the
knowledge that they have brought it on themselves
But their remorse will come too late. We know
enough of the spirit of the rebellion to be that
the Rebel Brlgadiers will use their power remorse-
lessly. Individual Democratic members Of Con-
gress viii be startled at the amount OF rebel claims
and shocked at the proposition to create a dozen
Confederate and dOugh-faced judges of the Supreme
Court of the United States. But IN the next, rs IN
the last Congress, king caucus will put on its
screws. Our only safety lies in the election Of
Republican President, and he should be supported,
II possible. by a Republican Congress.
If the exposures In this mornings TRIBUNE had
been made against a Republican candidate for
YIce-President they would have awakened the
outspoken indignation Of the Republican press and
people We have evidence Of this in the fact that
former VIce-PresideHt Of the United States from In
diana for an offence venIal IN comparison with the
doubIe fraud perpetrated by Mr. English, was
driven from public life We shall now what
reputable Democrats say of their candidate for Vice
President, who. while a clerk IN the Treasury De-
partment fraudulently obtained $1,000 from the
Pension Fund and then cheated his own relatives
Of their share of L Let it be remembered that
the principal witness against Mr.. English Is the
late William L. Marcy, formerly Governor of our
State As proverbally upright and just as a citizen.
az he was eminent a statesman.
cannot close this brief letter without
expressing MY grateful acknowledgements to
ex- President Grant for the characteristic
fearlessness with which he has thrown
himself into this canvass. Nothing but a clear,
strong and devoted sense of duty could have
aroused him to such efforts. He dncerns another
form the same danger which called hIm TO the ieid
III 1SG1 and he Is rendering as good service now
he did then. Such devoted patriotism strengthens
his clam upon the affection and gratitude Of his
country. T. W.
Aoar- York, Oct. 5, 1850.
THE Pocket ARGUMENT