St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-26
ATTRIBUTE TO TILDEN.
Judge Rrisbin,s Address at New U1m
Tuesday Night.

Tuesday Night.
Judge Brisbin, of st. Paul, delivered
Dulogy upon the late Samuel j. Tilden
New Ulm ON Tuesday, the conclusion oft
which is given below:
l believe in intellectual as well as physical
nerldity, and hence believe that much of the
pminence which Mir. Tilden acquired and the
position which he domineered, came or the
sact that he was born OF q yeoman-ef Anglo
Saxon ancestry. in the little village of New
lebanon, Columbia county, New York, and
within about twenty miles of Undertook, the
nome of Martin Van Buren,. He was there
.ore brought by local necessity into immedi-
tie contact with q race and generation of
Itatesmen and politicians who were the lineal
leirS of Jefferson and his co-revolutienary
statesmen, whom the judgment of mankind
aus pronounced as the best opponents of the
republican system of government He was
thoughtful and stud1ous young man, Inherit
Ing and indoctrinated with those views of re-
igiouS and political liberty, the negation Of
which cost one English king his head and
another his crown-and which, transplanted
into new relations and organized by Thomas
JeferSon-into the very fibre of whose polti-
Cal character had been Embedded the vital
the immortal monsters OF the French
revolution - and which have ultimately
found fruitage in the Democratic system I'M
der which we live. Associated early in life
with Van Buren,, Marcy and Wright and with
Cen Jackson, the immortal soldier of their
ideaS-ideaS which have been transmitted
from
THE REVOLUTIONARY EPOCH
and are to-day solidiied in the dogmas of the
Democratic party, briefly stated in the preg-
Dant maxim 1.-The best government is the gov
eminent which governs least" and the con-
stitutional text that whatever powers were not
granted to the federal government were IRE
served to the states and the people" He
was more deeply imbued with their and these
doctrines than any other statesman OF his
generation. He was politician in the high,
philosophical and patriotic definition of the
character. He discovered and discerned
men and the sources of power and under
stood practically the machinery by which the
moral and essential forces of society are
moved. To paraphrase his own language
when engaging in the Herculean task of puri-
flying the Democratic party of New York,
against the qualified protests of some of it's
great leaders. by overthrowin. intrenched 4
corruption; Il am with my fellow sufferers, I
and if the supremacy of the Democratic
party is to be maintained by organized pill
lage OF this great municipality, / am against
? the plllagers, and Furthermore do not go to
my arsenal and take down weapon 20 shoot
at u mark, but to bring down the game. I
have more faith in one dednite fact than in a
book full Of rhetoric. Gentlemen, the battle
. is pitched-iti is public morality against cor
luptlou, and here announce the challenge
and the, terms, vac victiS.' "a He was the
greatest soldier of political morality in Amer 7
ice. While he was Calvanistic in the belief
that men are prone to evil as the sparks TO
lily upward he adhered to the maxim that
the masses of men were always right. He
lad profound knowledge OF the methods
aud
MACHINERY OF POLITICS.,
and used them the means of accomplish
Ing the objects which true patriot and
statesfnau should set up as his beacous.
t.ence he was leader of men and has been
teiitTled and derded. We the lightning
Aiid hear the thunderbolt, but the immortal
trrces which move the elements to action we
nc not comprehend. He was one Of the great
scholurs OF the constitutions thoughtful,
learned and conscientious student OF that
immortal instrument. His thoughtful and
sruoiouS life and his daily walk and CONVEX
sation with the direct heirs of the men who
mace the constitution made him its best iu-
terpreter in this generation. His English
was OF the colossal type which best carries
the logic which has no joints. He was not
an attractive or impressive speaker because
OF his lack Of physical force; ''he talked
right on and was always listened to with
more attention than any man who has
spoken to assemblages in New York
since the death of Sias Wright
not even excepting Gov. Seymour.
The reason for this was that he was prasmat-
ical-a business speaker who was fully en-
dowed and conscieutiously convicted with the
ideas about which he discourSed. He was a
recognized master and teacher of political
economy, which in fact and merit compre-
hends the science of government More than
all, and GROWING his transcendent qualities,
he was Christian and co urtly gentleman. ,
With all of
HIS WONDERFUL ENDOwMENTS
nd acquisitions-the benefactfons which his
aife has conferred upon mankihd-in this
lpresenee We are constrained to admit with
honest John Foster: ''veriiy, it is a humble
thing to be man." He died on the 4th day
August, 1856, at $3.50 q. III. at Greystone.
He sank to rest
With all his country's wishes best
He died in glory, at his gorgeous home on
the Hudson, in the presence of those most
dear, far from the mad ming crowds igno-
bic strife,' in hearing of the everlasting
noises OF that usea which brings the COM
MERGE of the world to the metropolis which
he SO much loved-in the place which nature
had so beautifully appareled and which art.
inpanelled by his lavish hand had gar
nished with her richest trophies. He
carried byfriendly hands of his own choice
to his place of birth, New Lebanon, aud sleeps
within a few miles of his guide philosopher
and FRIEND Martin Van Buren,. The yew
tree of that modest graveyard, ''dewy With
natures tear drops" weeps over hallowed
ashes and haunted ground, 70 which the
thoughtful statesman aud patriot will forever
repair
LAS to their fountain stars returning,
In their silver urns draw light"