The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-08-12
SAMUEL J. TILDEN DEAD.
STRICKEN SUDDENLY IN HIS
HOME AT GREYSTONE.
A Brief Sketch of the Life and Public
Service of the Dead Lawyer and
Statesman.
Specia torrespondence Of TIE Sentinel.

Service of the Dead Lawyer and
Statesman.
Special correspondence Of The Sentinel
New YORK, August THE many
readers of THE SENTINEL throughout
North Carolina and wherever Your
excellent paper is read will hear with
regret of the death of Hon. Samuel j.
Tilden, the Sage of Gramercy Park
and the most sagacious leader the De
mocracy ever had.
He died at $50 o'clock, Wednesday
the 4th, inst, at his beautiful country
seat, at Greystone on the Hudson.
He passed away so peacefully that it
was difficult for his friends to believe
that the end had come He was seat
ed in rocking chair propped up with
pillows. He was apparently in no
pain.
For some time past he has avoided
the city, and has remained at his beau
titul country house, Greystone, on the
Hudson Surrounded here by all the
luxury that wealth can command, and
watched over and tended by his ac-
complished physicians and by affect
ionate friends and faithful servants,
Mr.. Tilden's declining days have been
made as comfortable as might be. His
hold on life has been most tenacious
wonderfully so. 1t has excited tn.
wonder of the whole country, and has
awakened the inquiry of the scientific.
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Samuel Jones Tilden was born in
New Lebanon, Columbia county, New
York, February 9, 1914. He came
from good Puritan stock, and his mid
die name is that of his maternal ances-
tor, William Jones, who was Lieuten-
ant-Governor of the colony of New
Haven. His family were we'll to do,
and is father was one of Martin Van
Buren's trusted advisers Mr.. Tilden
entered the field Of political contro-
versy before he went to college. In
1882, when he was only Is years old, he
wrote strong article on the refusal of
the Senate to confirm Mr.. Van Buren
as Minister to England, and was the
author of the celebrated address to
the People," which was :signed by
leading Democrats, and which did SO
much to defeat the object of the coali-
tion of the anti-Masons and national
Republicans against jackson. The
result of the election of that year in
this State was a victory for the Demo
Gratis by 10000 majority.
Mr.. Tilden entered Yale College in
1888, and was classmate of VIM. M.
Evarts, Chief Justice Waite and Ed
wards Pierrepont. He was studious
young man, and his application was
so severe that his health was injured
and he was obliged to return home at
the end OF his freshman year. He
completed his college course in 1887
at the University of New York. While
he was still in college he took part in
the controversy on the Independent
Treasury question, and wrote a series
of articles sustaining the administra-
tion of his o.d friend Mr.. Van Buren.
These articles were published in the
Albany Argus over the signature of
"Crino," and attracted universal at
teption. So able were they that they
were attributed to Judge Esek Cowen.
In 1888 he participated in a public
debate with Senator Tallmadge, and
was not worsted Already, at the age
of "a, he was felt to be growing
power in the politics of the State. He
eagerly engaged in all the exciting
discussions which followed and result
ed from the great financial crash of
1887, and he furnished arguments
which went tc the advancement of
many an older and more experienced
man than the young STRIPPING fresh
from college.
PRACTICES LAW,
After leaving the University Mr..
Tilden read law in the office of John
w. Edmonds and came to the bar in
1S41. He opened an office on Pine
street, New York, and began the prac-
tice, but his father was so far convinc-
ed that his health would prove an OBJ
stacle too great to be overcome that he
often said that he cleared Samuel
would never able to make living as
a lawyer" 1t would have been sur
prising, however, had not his intimate
association with the leaders of his par
ty in the State and his ingrained love
of Jefersonian principles kept him in
the political current. In connection
with John L. O'Sullivan he establish
ed, in 1914, the Daily Neaps, and tor
months gave largely Of his time and
money to make it successful. Af.er
the election of Polk he gave his inter
est in the Neaus to Mr.. O'Sulliyan, de-
clined lucrative Office rendered him
by the administration and resumed the
practice of law He continued to la
Dor earnestly for the party and agreed
to serve in the Legislature in 1S45
and Constitutional Convention of 1856
but these were the only political
places he could be induced to accept
until ht, again consented 10 beco,ne a