Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-08-11
The Verdict of History.

Mr.. Tilden is dead, and as one de-
parted to the bourne whence no trav-
eler returns he should be spoken Of,
but his partisan friends-indiscreet
Democrats speaking of him de-
clare that he will be known in histo
ry as the man who was defrauded
of the Presidency of the Repub-
lie. 1t is probable that the position
that the Democracy assign for Mr..
Tilden in history is purely a piece Of
inauguration on the part of his
friends, Just as it was piece of i'm
agination on the part of the De
mocracy to declare during the war
that the North could not put down
the Rebellion, Just as it was a piece
of Imagination for them to declare
that the colored people would over
run the northern states and compete
with free laborers, just as it was i'm
agined that the Southern people
would break up in bands of bandith
if the North should conquer them.
The reader, if he is man forty-fve
years, remembers very we'll how the
Democracy indulged in loud exclama
tions of such imaginings regard
ing the result of Rebellion, just as
they now indulge in the imagin-
ings that Tilden will be known in
in history as the man who was de-
frauded out of the presidential chair
by the rejection of the vote of some
of the Southern states. Years after
this, when the verdict of history shall
have been rendered, it will accord no
such a place to Mr.. Tilden. He will
be seen at the head of an organiza-
ton that had joined hands in the
Southern states with the old rebel
element and by system of intimida-
ton suppressed the Republican vote
of number of the Southern States,
and on the strength of that suppress
sion claimed the election of MIR. Til
den to the Presidency. When MIR.
Tilden takes his place in history, gen
erations after this will be surprised
at the presumption of the party that
ran him for the Presidency, that be
ever claimed the election in the face
of facts, that in Alabama, Florida,
Louisiana, Mississippi and other
Southern states the majority of voters
were intimidated by wholesale meth
DDS, such as false registries, tissue
ballots and threats of violence. 1t is
true that in several of the states re-
turning boards did reject the returns
of large districts. The reflections
were made under the state laws and
under evidence of intimidation and
violence. When the verdict of histo
ry comes to be made up it will not
be based upon technical Irregular
ty here and there but upon toe high
broad elevated plain of an honest i'm.
partial inquiry. Did Mr.. Tilden re.
ceive the vote of the newly enfranchis-
ed race of the Southern states with
ont the aid of the instrumentality OF
of intimidation, violence and fraud !
The verdict will be against him. The
verdict of history will be that he was
a York state politician, a corporation
lawyer, who made bis hundreds ol
thousands of dollars in wrecking rail
roads, and in manipulating watered
stock to speculative rise. There are
thousands OF men in the United
States who shrink away from the con
Eliminating touch of such methods
To lift him up before the national
gaze and say behold ''The martyr o.
a great national fraud, is lifting hin
up to be laughed at by the genera
tions to come who will render the
verdict of history.