The Life of Samuel J. Tilden
Subtitle: Volume 2 - Revised Edition - larger & newer font typeset
Publisher: Show Biz East Production
Published: March 2009
Place of publication: Clearwater, FL
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780978669812
Description: Complete Hand Revisions, Recharting and grapg charts and added illustrations - of Volume 2 originally written by Samuel Tilden's Biographer John Bigelow.
Table of contents: pagenum: 15
title: Presidential canvass of 1876 — Assailable points of Grant's administration— Popular majority for Tilden and Hendricks — Inception of the conspiracy to defeat the popular choice — Senator Barnum, John C. Reid, and the " New York Times " — William E. Chandler's break-of-day despatches — Troops ordered to Florida — President Grant's despatch to General Sherman — Foul operations of conspirators in Florida—How rewarded by President Hayes — General Barlow
label: CHAPTER I; pagenum: 41
title: The conspirators' operations in Louisiana—William Pitt Kellogg —Visiting statesmen in New Orleans — The composition and operations of the Louisiana Returning Board — Garfield — Sherman — Anderson — Jewett—Eliza Pinkston — Fraudulent registration — The reward of the conspirators
label: CHAPTER II; pagenum: 62
title: The electoral count of 1877 — Senator Morton's scheme — Tilden's history of the presidential counts — President Grant concedes Tilden's election — Electoral commission created — Disapproved of by Tilden — Refuses to raffle for the presidency—Horatio Seymour's speech before the New York electors — Dr. Franklin's advice to his son — The Florida case — The Louisiana case — The Oregon case — Conflicting decisions of the commission — The commission for sale — The forged certificates from Louisiana — Decision of the commission condemned by the House of Representatives — Letter of Charles Francis Adams — Tilden's reply — Protest of the Democratic minority of the electoral commission— Thurman and Bayard — James Russell Lowell
label: CHAPTER III; pagenum: 117
title: Revisits Europe — Blarney Castle — St. Patrick's Cathedral — Tom Moore's birthplace —The cabman's criticism — Lord Houghton's story — General Grant's reception in London -Tilden elected an honorary member of the Cobden Club — Visits the home of his ancestry — Arrives in Paris — Attends the funeral of Thiers — Talk with Gambetta — Louis Blanc's account of his visit to Louis Napoleon when a prisoner at Ham, and of the loss and recovery of his voice in London — The story of General Cavaignac's brother and mother — Tilden's exposure in recrossing the channel — Re-turns to the United States — The " Indian Corn Speech "
label: CHAPTER IV; pagenum: 140
title: The trials and temptations of a bachelor millionaire — Proposals of marriage in verse and prose
label: CHAPTER V; pagenum: 161
title: The cipher despatches — Tilden's address to the people of the United States in regard to them — His examination by a congressional committee— A calumnious report corrected — Letter to Senator Kernan
label: CHAPTER VI; pagenum: 220
title: Income-tax returns — New persecutions by the administration — The capitulation of the administration — The ignominious end of seven years' persecution — Letters of Edwards Pierrepont, special counsel for the government; S. L. Woodford, United States District Attorney; Green B. Raum, United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue; Charles J. Folger, Secretary of the Treasury; and Benjamin H. Brewster, Attorney-General of the United States
label: CHAPTER VII; pagenum: 256
title: The purchase of Graystone — Dinner to J. S. Morgan — Mr. Tilden rebukes third-term candidates for the presidency — Withdraws from public life — Letter to Mr. Manning declining the presidential nomination in 1880 — The Cincinnati convention — Urged for a re-nomination in 1884— Second letter of declension
label: CHAPTER VIII; pagenum: 281
title: Tilden's relations to the new President —Senator Garland a suitor—Letters to Manning — Tilden's and Jefferson's views of civil service — Harbor defences — Letter to Carlisle — Tilden's friends proscribed at Washington — Letter to Watterson — George W. Julian — Tilden discourages his nephew and namesake from embarking in politics — R. B. Minturn — Manning's illness and retirement from the treasury — History of the Monroe Doctrine — The Broadway railroad — Advice to Governor Hill against the proposed enlargement of the Erie canal — Favors the bill for an international park and for the protection of the Adirondack forests
label: CHAPTER IX; pagenum: 341
title: Tilden's last days — The books he read — His death—Whittier's elegiac verses — The funeral — Mr. Tilden's will — The validity of the Tilden will contested — The trustees of the Tilden Trust purchase a half-interest in the estate — James C. Carter's argument - Provision made by the Legislature and afterwards withdrawn, for the Tilden Free Library
label: CHAPTER X; pagenum: 364
title: Conclusion
label: CHAPTER XI; pagenum: 383
title: Address of the minority of the electoral commission of 1877
label: APPENDIX A; pagenum: 392
title: Party sentiment in favor of Tilden's re-nomination for the presidency in 1884
label: APPENDIX B; pagenum: 403
title: Miss Gould's list of the books read to Mr. Tilden during the last years of his life
label: APPENDIX C; pagenum: 421
title: Last will and testament of Samuel Jones Tilden
label: APPENDIX D; pagenum: 439
title: Act to Incorporate the Tilden Trust
label: APPENDIX E; pagenum: 45
title: Tilden Family on porch at GRAYSTONE
label: ILLUSTRATION; pagenum: 139
title: Tilden Homestead New Lebanon
label: ILLUSTRATION; pagenum: 255
title: GRAYSTONE MANSION
label: ILLUSTRATION; pagenum: 303
title: Tilden, Mayor Wickham, Mary Pelton at Martha Washington Reception Academy of Music
label: ILLUSTRATION; pagenum: 402
title: U S Senate Hearings 1877
label: ILLUSTRATION