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-AUGUST 18. 1S76.
HORACE UREEUEY AIVT HAJIVKV
.J. TILDE.
HORACE GREELEY'S EXPOSURE ASD AR
RAIGXMENT OF SAMUEL J. TILDEX AS THE
. PATRON OK "REPEATERS" AM) "BALLOT
BOX STLYFERS" IX THE DEFEAT IX NEW
YORK. IX lSt)S-H59, OF ORAXT AXD GHI3
WOLU, AX1 OF, THE REFORM CONSTITU
TION OF NEW TORE.
O, "Humbug.' thy name is Democratic lie
form. "'
In tlie great debate in the United States
Senate during the session of 1874-75. stim
ulated by Democratic White-League devil
try at Xew Orleans in January, 1375 by
I the violent conspiracy of the Democratic
' White-League minority to seize and or
ganize the Louisiana Le-'.s!ature, in the
White-League interest, by tr-'mpling down
the laws guaranteeing the rights of the Re
publican majority in that debate the De
mocracy, led by Judge Thurmau. pleaded,
ui justification of White-Leagtie violence,
rebellion, and outrage, that Kellogg was
not elected Governor that he was fal-ely
WHinled in ! Were it true the clurge was
a grave one a damning one. Because if
any condition of affairs, in a free govern
ment, justifies rebellion if any justifies
violent or armed resistance to an existing
government it is the forcing into power
and place, either by vio:ence or fraud, of a
6et of rulers condemned or repudiated by
the majority. It is practically a violent or
fraudulent subversion of the will of the
people an overthrow by violence or fraud
of the fundamental laws of the State ; tru
ly, under every aspect, an intolerable con
dition of affairs.
llow well did Thurman understand that!
how well did the Democracy! But the
charge, utterly false, was only fabricated
as a plausible justification of irrepressible
White-League deviltry, and supported pre
tendedly with elaborate proofs ingeniously
fabricated to mislead the American peo
ple, still jealous of the integrity of the law
and the purity of their Government. But
the monstrous structure of demogoguery,
falsehood, and franc, as a whole and in de
tail, in all its parts tumbled ignominious
ly into ruins under the trenchant blows
of Koscoe Gonkliug and other senatorial
champions. Not a support was left stand
ing. Senator Conkling, after disposing of the
charge by Thurman that Kellogg was
not elected Governor of Louisiana, says, in
Ida magnificent argument in the Seuateof
January 28 and 29, IS75 :
"Other States have known j deeper
.-.... I .1 ..... ... 1
.iinfe.-5 iib-iu uiese ; one uiey cnu not resort
. to the blade, the - lnll..r ,ni h,. ......I.
i-Wto York has knotcn deeper wrongs than
tltese. It is an open secret note tliat in 1SGS
John T. Hoffman was falsely counted into
tiie office of Governor when the people had
elected John A. Gritwold. The count was
falsified by forgery more than thirty thousand
in txr.o counties. Who did it?
The managers of the Democratic party;
and they seated in the Legislature year
after year men whom the people had voted
!own. The same regime made the courts,
and made them corrupt. They made the
inspectors of election, and the inspectors
poduted and debauched the ballot-box.
lney d Tided the chief city of the State by
j suddenly redistrictingit en the eve of elec
tion in such wise as to bisect blocks and
houses, so that men domiciled in the same
house could vote and repeat in different
election districts. Wielding usurped exe
cutive and legislative power, they plun
dered the treasury by the most colossal
robbery of modern times. By such as
tounding means a political party the De
mocracy for years dominated a State of
five million people, anil field it by the
throat. They made taxes, assessments,
. tributes, and exactions the bribes and the
penalties of political submission."
j And who were the authors, who the ma
I aiipulators, ot thU infamous; stupendous,
.And frightful structure ot unparalleled
.crime; this systematic "pollution" and
"debauching of the ballot-box ;" this long
arrival of bloody violence and fraud by!
which "five million of people" were so
iong " dominated " and " held by the
hroat?" Why, SAMUEL J. TILDEX,
as 44Cbairman Democratic State Commit-!
Jtee," with Boss Tweed, John T. Hoffman,!
Connolly fc Co., as coadjutors and acJ
tlve instruments.
There is no longer a question as to the
fact of this damning arraignment. They
'can be neither refuted nor denied. Tbey are
row a part Of the history of the country,
and form one of the foulest stains upon the
escutcheon of the Republic. But we pro
pose to furnish the proofs. We shall do it
out of the mouth of a patriotic man famil
iar with every fact of the damning record;
in the language of a man honored and
trusted by the Democracy, and whose abili
ty, Integrity, arid worth whose veracity
were confessed and attested by the Democracy-in
its selection or him in 1872 as
its standard-bearer before the nation. We
mean Horace Greeley.
In 1869 Mr. Greeley addressed two open
'Letter to a Politician'''' to "SA.MUEL
J. TILDEX, Chairman ' of the Democratic
State Committee" In which be arraigns Til
den, and demonstrates his criminal com
plicity in bis "direct responsibility" for
these vile fraud. But previously. In the
Tribune, prior to the election prior to the
perpetration of this monstrous "villainy"
te warns Tiiu'eii and the State that they are
in' in. i in t-1 1 1 a - - - - "- .
in contemplation. Mr. Greeley says, in
the Trtbttne, ot Jnly 3, 18GS, under the
head of "'Fraudulent Voting
" During our last canvass the active
friends of a Republican candidate tor the
Assembly in Kings county were approached
by an operator, who proposed for a con
sideration to poll for them several hundred
votes. 'Business is business, said the oper
ator: 'we work for pay; we usually work
for the Democrats, but we will work for
you if yon will engage us. The gentle
man approached, though not inclined to
negotiate, thought they might as Aell in
crease their stock ot knowledge; so thev
sent a trusty agent to ascertain, in strict
confidence, how the thing was done.
"The agent was taken to a suit of rooms
on Broadway, near Fulton street, and
there, under an injunction of secrecy, ini
tiated into the mysteries. There were
maps ot the city bv wards and election
districts, and in each district (or most of
them) were marked the number of houses
from which bogus voters might register
with full assurance that they would be
protected iu so doing; that any inquiry
for them there would Le answered as they
would wish.
"The voter were procured as follows :
A hundred or more persons were hired to
to ilo as they were bid and ask no questions.
Each win provided with a mime-under
which he was to register wherever required.
They were then divided into squads often,
each led by a wide-awake trusty captain.
Thus organized each squad star's usually
on the last day of registration to register
in as many places as possible. The squad
captain regularly provides each man with
the street and number from which he is to
register at the next poll. So each squad
starts under the lead of its captain, say at
the Battery, and register in each district
up to the west side of Fiftieth or Sixtieth
street: crossing ovpr u tln r-ust- ci.i.. n.i
registering along down town till the reis-
ii.c .iicniii. n industrious anil reso
lute a captain may get his squad registered
m ntty enstnots; and he can easily vote
them in as many on election day. the cap
tain Knowing nis ground so thoroughly
tnat lie makes no fa sw &tons ev
O.red villains thus organized may poll tuenty-
jtce i.i'nrs-nm jrumuami rotes.
-Bur.' says the inquiring agent, 'are
j-ou not at ni'ul ot tli law?'
I he operator smiled meanlnglr. 'The
law may be a little rough.' he replied,
but the men who are to execute the law
are our friends and will see us through.
e poneci mteen thousand bogus votes
last fall, when but six arrests were made
for illegal voting, and nobodv hurt. We
shall imI1 twenty-live thousand this year.
The law don't, bother lis much !'
"The villain who work this machine
will lie prepared to go all lengths this f ill.
The money 'o pay them munificently lias
been provided in our city and comity tax
levies. It any are so ignor.intly timid a
lo tear our legal dispensers or injustice the
captains may draw their squads from the
aliens of Philadelphia and other cities.
r-ruiunx ineiu away as soon as they are
done using them We have nothing to
ho)e from our officials, whom this train!
habitually keeps in power and enriches !'
How did Boss Tweed & Co. treat this
exposure? How did Samuel J. Tilden.
Tweeds "chairman of the Democratic
State Committee?"
Again and again, in the Tribune, Mr.
Greeley repeated this exposure; again aud
again lie denounced the extraordinary levies
of tlio year, from iiro to Jice millions, upon
Xew York city and county, as a corrupt
extortion for the vilest of party purposes
as an enormous partisan fund for the "mu
nificent payment " of the " villains who
work the machine ;" a3 a wholesale rob
bery ot honest citizens for the means of
rewarding ruffians employed to cheat those
very citizens, by the most, infamous frauds,
of all voice iu their government! How
were the exposures of such crimes, which,
according to Thurinan, should have called
the State to arms; which' fhould have
aroused every honest at.d patriotic man to
a vindication of the laws, the purity of the
ballot-box how were s jch exposures
treated ? How by the Democracy ? How
by Tweed & Co.? How by Samuel J. Til
den, Tweed's ' chairman of the Demo
cratic State Committee?' Did lie, indig
nantly condemn the "villians?" Did he
denounce the proposed frauds? Did he
prohibit them, or give out any sign of dis
approval? Horace Grtcley had iong known Samuel
J. Tilden. He thoroughly understood bis
character. He accordingly, iu the Tribune,
paints its strong features the character of
a Democratic reformer, in the duplicity,
the craft, the wily machinations of an un
principled and consummate demagogue
and trickster. He exposes the wicked craft
of the ex-rebel party the so-called De
mocracyin fixing upon the 4th ot July
as the day upon which to hold their Presi
dential nominating convention. He says,
m the Tribune of July 4th, 186S, that no
"infidel ever had tlie audacity to appro
priate to his skeptical uses the hallowed
birtlulay of our Savior," but the Democ
mcy "the ex-rebel Democracy," the re
vilers of the Declaration of Independence"
prostitute tho "birthday of the nation
to their unholy and traitorous ends.
Such an outrage Horace Greeley only
equalled by the mischievious cunning of its
chief manipulator, Samuel J.' Tilden!
Under Tilden's management Seymeur en
acted the farce of pretending to refuse the
Democratic nomination,- protesting that lie
could not and would not accept, and ended
by taking it. Mr. Greeley, in the Tribune
or Jnly 14, 1808, exposes its low cunning,
its characteristic era ft. by reviving tho 7th
scene, act III, of Richard HI, in which
systematic murder and perjnry triumph in
the seizure by Glostcr, aided by Buck
ingham, of the British Crown ! Even con
spirators, hardened as they were in blood
and sin. courted the -popular voice as a
shield for their crime, their meditated seiz
ure of tlie Throne ! Buckingham manipu
lates the people, praying Gloster to accept
tlie Crown. All will remember the inci
dents of the scene-nil Shakspeare's masterly
portraiture of the two most precious scoun
drels in English history. Greeley adopts
it as the portraiture of Seymour and Til
den, representing Seymour as Gloster, who
could -; , -, -
AJ?5,,apc8 Tritb Protens for advantages,
And set the murderous Macula vols to school.''
And Tilden as "high reaching Bucking
ham," Tilden manipulating the conven
tion and repeating to Seymour Bucking
ham's counsel to Glostcr ' -
" Be not caHlly won to our reqnests ;
Play Uie mold part, still answer nay, and
As Mr. Greeley anticipates, in tlie Trib
une of July, 3, honest citizens hostility to
fraud bad "nothing io hope" from such
conspirators. They even multiplied tbeir
infamous labors aud extended the area of
their operations. They determined to
wrest Pennsylvania from its Republican
majority by similar frauds and villainy ;
and nt the October election, (of 18G8)at the
command of Tweed & Co., Xew York was
emptied of its blacklegs, repeaters, ruffi
ans, roughs, and thieves en route to Penn
sylvania, where, aided by similar "vil
lains" from Baltimore, they plied their
devilish vocations. Says a Philadelphia
dispatch to the Tribune: "The'J election
yesterday was more like a conflict in the
field of battle !" Says the Tribune ot Oc
tober 14, 18C3 :
"CouH not our Philadelphia friends con
trive to have an election every day In tfie
week and everj week in the year ? We do
not know how they might relish It, but we
know how we should. Xobody teas robbed
yesterday in Sew York ; nofxtdy teas assatrit
ed ; niibody had his pocket picked. The po
licn had little or nothing to do. The police
cturts irere idle, it might be pretty rough
on Philadelphia, but we should "like To
make a permanent transfer of those inter
esting classes Democratic reformers of
our population who on 3'esterday helped to
give variety, if not attractiveness, to their
election. Don't send them back to-day,
and you love us.' ".
Truly, what was to he "hoped" from
men who employed such agents aud agen
cies? Xevertheless, Mr. Greeley labored
earnestly to defeat the conspirators to
circumvent their "villainy." Again and
igaiu he renewed his demands, his appeals
for a fair election, for the freedom ami
purity of the ballot-box. In the Tribune
of October 20, 18G8; he nrges :
"The greatest, calamity that could befall
this country would be the election ot Ho
ratio Seymour. Xext to that would be
the election of John T. Hoffman. The
triumph ot Hoffman means the transfer to
Albany .of the Avorst 'ring of political
thieves that ever preyed upon a people ;
the election to the Governor's chair of a
man who is the creature of Tammany
Hall ; the surrender of this great State to
the most -degrading influences. The city
of Xew York is the worst governed city iii
the country. Vagabonds administer jus
tice ; rowdies are among its members to
Congress ; ignorant and greedv jobbers are
its representatives iu the City Conncils and
the State Legislature ; aud this great city,
with its wealth, its majesty, its renown,
its vast resources, its royal strength and
beauty, its ever growing enterprise, ami its
snblimelv mafmitieeiit. fntm-o this iiuim.
olis of the Western World is now leased
out to knaves afid adventurer 'like to
tenement or neltinc farm.' PIia titoi'tim.
of Hoffman means the extension of th
shameful misrule the election of Gris-
wold an earnest attempt to destroy it !"
But all in vain ! Mr. Greelev's exoos-
ures and appeals were alike treated with
the contempt born of long impunity in
crime. IJoftman. on the day of election.
in mere brutish defiance, issned a nrocla
mation, asserting that the cry of fraud was
a blind ot the Republicans, and offered a
reward for its detection. Tlie election was
held, stupendeous frauds of every vile
diameter were boldly perpetrated, and
through tlteni the State was counted for
Seymour aud Hoffman. To make "assur
ance doubly sure," iu order to stuff the
ballot-boxes intelligently ; in other words.
order to ascertain with accuracy tlie
precise uumlier of fraudulent votes neces
sary to destroy the Republican majority in
ttie State, the following circular over Til
den's signature was a few days before the
election secretly circulated among the con-
spintors throughout the State :
Private and strictly confidential.
Rooms of Democratic State Com
mittee, October 27, 1868.
Mv DEAR Sir : Please at. once to mm.
munieate with some reliable person, in
three or four nrincinal towns il In
city of your county, and request him (ex
penses duly arranged for at this end) to
reiegrapn to Win. M. Tweed. Tammany
Hail, at the minute ot closing the polls. not
waiting for the connt. sneh noraon'o aM-
mate of the vote. Let the telesrranh be as
This town will shows TViiuvmiiioiln
(or loss) over last year of (number) ; or
ii uur is umcieniiy certain ; 'mm town
iu give a iiepuoiican ;or Democratic)
majority of ."
J here is, of course, an imnnrtant ,
to be attained by a simultaneous transmission
at the hour of closing the polls, but not longer
waitina. OoDOrtunitv
n-tial halt-hour lull in the telegraphic com-
.......,,,.....,11, .Tcr ones oeiove actual results
begin to be declared, and before the Asso
ciated I'resS abSOlb the telptn-iir.h vl-UU
turns and interfere with individual mes
sages, and give orders to watch careful Iv
the count.
Very truly, j ours, 1
Samuel J . Ttldes, Chairman'
Thus over thirty thousand bogus votes
were fraudulently counted for Seymour and
Hoffman. Grant and Griswold, who had
a clear majority ot twenty tliousand ot the
legal votes cast, were cheated out of the
State, and a fraudulent majority of near
ten thousand proclaimed for Seymour.
"A cloud of witnesses," "mountains of
testimony," before the Congressional com
mittee which investigated the frauds demon
strate this. And thus, through the agency ot
Tilden, the frauds of Tweed & Co., was
"transferred to Albany the worst ring of
political thieves that ever preyed upon a
people" "the State surrendered to the
most degrading influences !? .
Such a result was disheartening the
triumph of systematic perjury and fraud ;
the prostration, through gigantic villainy,
of an intelligent and patriotic majority at
the feet of a' rascally minority ignorant,
corrupt, vicious, and traitorous. But Mr.
Greeley, indefatigable and ever earnest in
his labors for the purification of tlie ballot
box, for its rescue from pollution by Til
den and Tweed's "stuffing" and "repeat
ing" ruffians, addressed, at the following
election in the fall of 1860, two opert "Let
ters to a Politician," to "Samuel J. Tilden.
Chairman of the Democratic State Com.
mittee" the first of which is as follows i
" letter to a poLmciAS." i
To Samuel J. Tilden, Chairman Democratic
State Committee : I
SIR : You and I ara cnvwlnr old. i W
came liere yonng from the count rr, 'and
have lived and struggled side' by side neai-
lV fortV VearS. Wo hra nrloSrMtut ;,
dently iu many political struggles, always
on different sides. You were the nnnll
and urotege of . Van Buren and Kiln
Wright: I a disclnle and follower of Hmhv
Clay. : ..-. f
Mr. Greeley then arraigns Iilm for Ids
dereliction" of duly in reference to "the
preservation of the purity of tiie ballot-
box." He cars : i
"You and I frrew iin with th .vM.nin.
and are familiar with elections as there
conducted. We both know that, except in
a lew districts where the voters are all on
one side, it is morally impossible that any
considerable nroDOrtion of fraudulent votes
should there be polled. For those who
attend a poll re all nearly well known
to each other, and hardly ever is one
entitled ro vote who is not known to
be so to tlie men of each party. If one
should offer a vote who is not known he is
challenged ami nuestioned of course, and
his answers -will convict him it a bogus
voter. I do not believe that the illegal
vote in the rural districts was ever one per
cent.- of the whole number polled, even
when there was no registration of legal
voters.
How different is the case in cities, and
dSrwu.tu lltr It. tl.ta Tldhal ' VoV Ural!
know, long as you have lived on Gram
mercy Park, and eminent In social posi
tion and fortune as are the inhabitants of
that favored locality, yon could not tell
within wenty whieh of the residents with-
us eigiib ui jruur iruiib uuvr are nnu which
are not entitled to vote. You could not
make a list oi the legal voters residing on
that square which would even approach
accuracy. How must It be, then, with the
nomadic denizens of our "back-slums" aud
of our great tenement houses how utterly
impossible it is that any one should know
which among them are and which are not
legal voters, and whether the man who of
fers to vote at 11 A. M. at one poll has or
has not already voted several times at dif
ferent polls, and whether he is not on his
way to vote still oftener at - other poll.
You cannot help knowing if you would.
I can imagine how a man may shut his
eyes to many things which he deems it
convenient not to know ; but I speak of
what you mut know, however you may
wish or seek to be ignorant of it.
The matter to which I call your atten
tion is vital to the very existence of free
popular government. Whenever it shall
be generally understood that the results of
elections are tiot determined by ballots of
legal voters, ,bnt by frauds in voting tr
fiauds in counting, then tlie advent of
avowed, unequivocal despotism must be
near at hand. Between the rule of an em
peror and the rule of a clique ot ballot-box
sniffers every intelligent man must prefer
the former, as less rapacious and more re
sponsible. When honest citizens shall
avoid the polls, asking "What I Is the use
of voting? the result is always fixed,"
THE DATS OF THE REPUBLIC WILL BK
numbered. Between tlie ruler who pro
hibits voting altogether and the gang who
make it a sham by filling the ballot-boxes
with illegal votes, or miscounting tlose ac
tnally cast, the sway of the former is every
way preferable,
i Mr. Tilden. I have been vnMm k, r.
thirty-seven years, and an active "politician
. 1. . . . 1 - . . . .
mure uwii iiurir oi mem. ana l appeal
to God for my sincerity aud to my public
record for a witness that in nil I tlia ...... -j
I liave earnestly songht and labored to have
wir ciei-uous iieciue.il nv leu-ai votes nnrt
none other. Seeins? how irrent. tl...
temntation and t.lm t.-ieiliri
right ot suffrage so general as ours, to poll
""K"! o., x nave opeiuy ana activelv
favored everv effort to shut ilieni nut o.wi
keep the sntTinge pare and legal. That
everv letral voter shrtii Id liavn I .i full ....l
iair opportunity to vote once at each elec
tion ; that no one should be enabled to vote
more than once ; and that none but legal
voters be allowed or empowered to vote at
all such has been my constant aim. I
have uot confined myself to barren pro
fessions, but have shown my faith by
my works. How is it with you I You
liold a most responsible and influential po
sition in the councils of a great partv. You
could make that party content itself with
polling only legal votes if you would. In
our lau? eotistitiiMonal imnititiMi T I
- c - - -. . .... iivs
. ...... .v...v..y-. . . I
to erect some fresh barriers against election
irauus. ma you ? The very little tu;t I
was enabled to efiect in this direction I
snau try to nave ratified by the peoi le at
our ensuing election. W WXyout
Mr. Tilden, you cannot escape restvn
sibility by saying, with tlie guilty Mt
oein
"Toon canst not any I did it. Never shake
Those (iory locks at xt."
For you were at least a passive accomplice
ill the ri-t.it f'f 1 111 1 tt I i.-. X'. V -r
name was used, without public protest on
... . ... ........ - .lutnimci, iu:ir
your part, iu circulars sowed bioaduast
over the State, whereof the manifest intent
was to '-make assurance doubly sure" that
the frauds perpetrated should not be over-
V. ( .1... . . . . ..
oorue uy me liuncsi. vote oi tne rural CM3
triets. And yon, not merelvibv silence.
but by positive assumption, have covered
those frauds with the mantle t of yoor" re-
speciaonuy. un the principle that "the
receiver is as bad as the thief." you are as
deeply implicated in them to-day as though
your name was Tweed, O'Brien, orOakev
Hall. 3
i Mr. Tilden. you and I were ardent par-
Mcipauis in me struggle oi 1&4U, wherein
Martin Van Buren was ousted from the
Presidency by General Harrison. Yoo
know how thoroughly our citv was ab
sorbed in that contest, wherein every man,
woman, and child took a deep and" lively
interest. Our elections " were then held
throngliout three days. There was a retris-
. .: i.i , .. . J
trillion iresiur enacted wmcil Olacklegs
had not learned to circumvent. Tlie right
of suffrage was as widely diffused as it
now is. aud no one ever complained that a
single icgai voter was u in Die then to poll
his vote. And, though our citv has since
largely increased its population, the Imcer
vara were quite as populous then as tliey
are to-day, several of them more so. They
were full of hoar.lm4v-ho11.se rvtt.-fl.l it-ith
clerks and mechanics; many of these cov
ered Bites since given up to great ware
houses and manufactories; their denizens
have moved up town, over to Brooklyn,
or out on some Of the railroads that lead
into the open country. Practically tlie
lower wards are being given up to com
merce, and no longer shelter by night the
multitudes who throng their streets by
day. ' i
Now look at the vot of four of these
wards in 1840 and 1843 respectively :
Wards. Harrlann. Van B. Griswld Hoffman.
s th ...1,138 1,777 ..4B0 8,830
i 8th 80S..... .8,223 3H9 5,033
7th 1,707. . . '. 1.72S 1,728 6,85
HtU 1,142 1,393 72S 4.526
Ttal.... 4,793 5,521..
Vn-n nnt.nt, nuitnrllv
.2,840.
.20,283
Hoffman's majority.. T......
7,449.
Mr. Tilden. you know what this contrast
attests Kirrht. Well do YraTiininnmhxn
the means whereby tlie vote of 1868 was
. L. . . - .. . .. 1 1 ., m..
uiiis BivBiieu urn. ui nu proportions. J Here
are not twelve thousand legal voters liv
ina in those wards to-dau. thounh thev mm
Hoffman 17.443 majority. Had the day
been ot average length it would doubtless
have been swelled to at least twentv thou
sand. Tlie re was nothing but time needed
to make it one hundred thousand, if so
many had been wanted and paid for.
Xow. Mr. Tilden. I ail I on uott to nnt
stop to this business. You have but to
waiK into the sherltrs, tlie mavor's. and
supervisor's offices, in the City Hall Park,
and &ai t.he.m mnct tlA no mnm of it win
- ' ' J ..... w "" w ... ...... w V. .V SDUy .
to that there shall be no doubt that you mean
it. ana we snau nave a tolerably fair, ejec
tion ntim ntnm ltrohnKlv nmvl ..... .1
of tha ttft-tT .... 11 L.
-M. Ht. wiqifnttiu hiijiiicii tiw. inn YliM
bogus natviTHHaatioii certificates will offer
to register and to vote, some qf tbetn pre
tend in ir not tn L-now that, their fir, no mruo
citizens of the United States than tlie
King of Dahomey ls but very few wi.il
vote repeatedly unless paid fur Jt and w
halt not. Kw 1 mafrwl tvrwa than It .-
sand If yon simply tell the boss workmen
V. , 1. ... . i .( ,
i.iy kicit: hi Mil ue no iuutb illegal voting
instigated and paid tor.
Will vou do UP Your rennfation fa at
stake. The coward I v craft which
"Would not play falsa,
And yet wonld wrousrl v win" .
Will not: nval! ' Tf mro T?iit,hlfaat,a ' - .
- - " ..vn.u..wi, g
swindled airain. as we were swindled last
fall. you. and such as votu toill he reanmajtiW
to God and man for the outraae. ProeHi.
tors, magistrates, mnnicipai authorities.
are all in the pooj. We have nothing tot
hope from the ministers of justice, and the
villains have no terrors of the law. I an-
i'-" jvu, uu anxiously await tne re-
v it . . Horace Gkeklet.
i orn, uictooer au. 1869.
And what was the result What emw
bad Mr. Greeley's indignant but manly ap
peal to samuelJ. Tilden -in behalf of the
freedom and purity of tlie election Ills iu
cilgnaut exposure of the annallimr rimt
upon the registration and ballot box by
xitaen s infamous agents? Did Tilden
command the "business to stop?" Did he
manifest any indignation ? give bat any
Bign or disapproval? Let Mr. Greeley
state tne result. In the Tribune ot Nov.
3, 1809, he says:
"OCR STATE ELECTION.
'bliameless and cunning frauds, like
those which the editor oi the World saw
perpetrated at our polls a year ago, and
which he undoubtedly attributed to Wn.
31. Tweed and Oakey Hall, liave again de-
euiCTj me xvepuoncans in tne general vote
Of OUr State. The vote nnllixl ho. K
'repeaters' yesterday cannot have fallen be
low 20,000, and we think it largely ex
ceeded that amount. The Sixth and Sev-
entn warns gave a Democratic majority
considerably exceeding their entire lecal
vote; but the Twenty-first ( Sheriff
onen s; nir outstripped all rivalry, poll
liit? about -l.onn fi-iiuioiatit miu -...i ,1,...
" ' -. .... . . H Mill, 111119
largely increasing the fraudulent Demo-
nonrnan B t-o., Inst year. We presume
was VUIO fTMIU 1UI HIT"
Republican candidates is several hundreds
IU.1...H . I. . ... .11 L . I
mm, Buiiiiiny va-sr, ior inem ; ana we
.iTe uriice tnat iikc irauus were per
petnitrd in other wards. Tlie swindlers.
leenng snre or legal Impunity, were even
bolder than last year, and piled up the
majorities in their rotten boroughs with an
ntter recklesaneas of ntiAamiiMa Hr ik.
did not operate so universally as last year.
' "it utv nwimnru us ennugn ior tneir
present exigency, and know how to double
tlie amount whenever tlie State shall seem
to justify the cost. Unless the laws can be
so amended as to meet and ha API r he new
c.sii.i , i . - - .
devices and sxillfnl combinations of the
villains who now misrule and plunder onr
city our elections must henceforth be farces.
T.. A. 1 - A . . m -
jjiiL me lungiiicuae oi irie evio almost lu-
"Judging from what we witnessed at the
polls yesterday, the Democrats almost
nuauiinonslv defeated the ameiuleil ivin.
stitntion, with the reanirement of eoual
laxntiou on reai ano personal Dronertv.
. , , .
While their votes rtnlielal anfl tutrmititdtul
the nmnnrtir n r. T i t,. ti,.r - .w.Iam.1 ......
. - f , ...... .UI U lltCfl.
a iit jtniiuiriry nn icic tviw not geiieraiiv op-
iioseii oy niem. ami we inuiK it isadopted.
out mi is yet guuss-worK."
In tlie Tribune of November 9. 1869. Mr.
Greeley, in a -second letter to a politician"
"To Samuel J, Tildenr Chairman of the
Democratic State Committee" again ar-
ra igns I llden for his eoiuplicitr iu this gi
gantic villainy, and holds liim, as he indi
cated iu hU first "letter." to a just account
ability. In this letter Mr. Greelev re
views the labors of the Constitutional Con
vention of 1867 ; tlie defeat ot the result
of its labors, the "Reform Constitution."
by the great champion of reform, Samuel
J. Tilden, at the election of 1SG0: tlie de
feat of a fair registration and the means of
purging the ballot-box f its notoriously
infamous frauds, and ot securing to the
people and State a fair election. Mr. Gree
ley reviews all in detail, iu the light of un
controvertible facts, and says :
"lint winie nouesty ana law act spas
nouicaiiy, vniawiy ever sleeps with one
eye open, and plans new and more subtle
devices for circawveutiiig jnstic and over-tlu-owing
right. Had no illegal .vote been
f""' " Kiiy aitu xtrooKiyn, uenerai
Franx Sigel would now be onr Secretary
elect, as Grant, in tlie absence of fraud.
would have received the electoral vote of
our State by more Mian 20.00& majority.
Iet me multiply demonstration on this-
point : bince yoor party pretends to be-
ncve our otaie census erroneous and lui
perfect, I put that aside, and appeal toot-
ncial returns whereof no one can even af
fect to doubt the accuracy. Here follows
the number ot deaths in sever of She
lower wards iu our city, where yoor party
ins sneiieu its vote so iiioustrotMty mi
tlitt n..et- tnA a . V. ...... . . t .. . .. I . -
... v VI will w nmiuui .
Wards. 18.W
4th 844
6th 1142
7th.... 11S9
14tb... 77a
1S58
934
874
1134
IBM
817
933
1,0,0
&-s
1881
781
1,054
1,917
806
1862
7ti8
928
1.018
798
1864
I8S8
8
64
470
69
1,158
1,005
1,IU3
7S6
XOtaI..3,H01 3,Si5 3,648 3558 3y513 ,970 3,185
Now, Mr. Tilden. you knout that those
wanls liave not Increased in aggregate pop- j
ul.it ion since 1S55. People who live packed I
un in tenement nouses rmnt n tho ... .
. . . - -
rowest. crookedest, worst smelling streets
of onr city die at least as fast as those who
nve in more cieauiy, airy, commodious
quarters; and tlie Increase or diminution
or tne population of these wards is accu
rately reflected in tlieir annual return cf
deaths. Aow look at their, total vote at
our several Presidential elections since
moo and at our State elections last week :
Wards. lffvs
4th 9.CW9
6th 2.880
7th . ,4.i4
14th 3.218
I860
S,13i
2,924
4,8"0
3,578
104
2,820
3,781
6,259
5.060
Total ..13.241 13,837 16,920 23,123 90.037
Tou know what these fingers prove as
well as I do. You know tliat every vote
was drawn out that could be in the intense
ly contested election of 1860. and- that not
a few Were t.llell nolleil tvtiioh KaI nn -ll.
to be Yon know that the population of
.uce-c itmin iuh iim iiicreaseu, yei Hiey
Rolled over ninn thnninl mnrm In taaa
' .uw. w . . IW0
thnn they did in 1860. and over six thous-
jiiu .more in isoa, wbeu tne otn ward cast
eignt nunurea ana seventy , three more
man ner monstrous vote of last year, and
considerably more than double her vote in
touu or loo. ,
I do not instance these oases as worse
man otners. jrrobawy none of them are
so bad as that of the 81st ward, where your
Sheriff bears sway. But the 31st is a crow.
1na-a urnHrl - a. .
. , , 1 wunne my sen to uiose
which the bills of mortality clearly show
to be less populous to-day than tbev were
...l.n.. .1 1 . . . .
Trireii weir KsvKie vote waa duc !3,Z4i
S"1"" a,43 mey roijeu up tor llofb
man last fiill.
Mr. Tilden, you have confederates who
will chuckle over this expose, as showing
that "the Democrats fcnaw how," and that
thfitr Pit II npvpp ha rll., . .
tVVlwt if the Public jHcjgtnen condemns
w. ja5k "ur rrueaiers vqte t wipe ipore all
round., and we'll come out all r!g!l.,, But
I believe In God. and feel a nmnimri
vlotion that the fruits of trinmnh thus
achieved will tum to allies q?i the lips ui
: " v Tw jw., r f mMmw
tilAt Sin hniMftf-.nfipinff'. ivnnlrl haw hAan
- -".wu.i f t uwis uanp
advantageous to yo.n in the long run than.
Does Gpd, Indeed, rule t Sliall tithe
fruit of such triumBha turn to. ashes qn the
nps ot tne vtctprs ?" bhall qreejpy's fyifh.
In God be justified ? Or shall the nfamqqs
"victors" be rewarded by further lmtHinitv
in "villainy?" by the 'transfor" to Wash.
ington, the capital of the Republic "of the
worst nuns' or political thieves that ever
preyed upon a peonle" bv 'the surrender
ol the"- Nation and Government "to the
most, deradjn nufirices ? Shall te
1868 1869
4.310 S,8A
5,401 6,274
8.160 5,864
5,262 4,214
ballot-box stufler, the repeater.be proclaim
ed King? All in the election of SamuelJ.
Tilden as President of the United States ?
These are the fearful lssnes practically in
volved in the nomination of Tilden by the
Democracy! He is its truest representative
He is the embodiment and incarnation of
its creed, and the infamous airencies ' bv
which it proposes to strike down the Re
rs
publican maforitv of the Nation, to seize
opod tlie National Government, and to
fasten upon the Treasury its hungry, cor
rupt and vicious legions ! f . - ,
"Reform, retrenchment, economy" are
the old blinds Under which it has enacted
its greatest "villainies !" "Reform" the
old slogan under which It marched to its
most corrupt and corrupting victories!
'(Uirna wntAltu. aw Al.i
Hat vindicate the wrong .and warp the right 1
Some fact lows phrase, by cunning caught end
ftp road.
That BBU.T may reign, and wolves and worms
ha tVul !,' .
Now, again, under its old crv of Re
trenchment, Economv, Reform" the iri-
gantic rascality, the stupendous and syste
matic rraucis of 1868 in New York are to
be re-enacted in 1878. as thev were In Ma
ryland at Its last election, when, by similar
agencies and agents, by .he "Bruiser,"
"Ballot-box Stuffer. "and "Repeater" bv
the manufacture and count of thousands of
fraudulent votes iu Baltimore as in New
York, an ignorant, corrupt, aud vicious
minority seized tlie government of the State,
and now "holds by the throat' and "dom
inates! the intelligent and reioectahle. inn.
joriiy, as, indeed, throughout the Union,
noes a similar minority in nearly every
State under Democratic role fn evertr
Southern State wltere dominate ex-rebe
minorities ratify systematic perjury and
wholsale Iradd In the blood of their loyal
majorities!,. ,
Mr. Greeley reminds Tilden that "villai
ny ever sleeps with one eye open, and plan
new and more subtle devices for circum
venting justice and overthrowing right !"
Thus the "Great Comoner," Henry Clay,
in 1844, was robbed of the Presidency.
Mr. Greeler a&n reminds Tilden tfet. he
(Tilden) was a supporter of Jas. E. Polk
in. 1844, and In an article under the head of
"Mammoth Frauds" says r
"BV the ballots notl-resilleut ri nnm
aliens, reneaters. and others nnt l,.f..n
clothed witb the rights of suffrage" bv
"the engineers" of such "frauds" "al
ways liberally rewarded bv -tlie spoils' of
vsctorv." "Henrv Cla V was heaten iu 1 SU
being defrauded ot the electors from New
York ami I.onisitm 'I'lme mo r-o..u. I
Grant cheated out oftfie votes of New York
and Nw Jersey in 186S."
Thus (in 1844) was Jas. K. Polk f raud-
nlently foisted into the Presidential Chair.
llins was tlie long chain of Polk's malad
ministration, usurpation, tnd crime, which
cniminated in the rebellion, inflicted upon i
the Nation, by bollot-box stnffers and Re
peaters iu New York, and bv Slideli's
Thugs in New Orleans and along the Mis
sissippi. Thns(in 1868) was John T. Hoff
man, with his corrupt gang, fraudulently
forced upon the people of New York; now.
again, every vigilant "villainy" is planing
ami plotting throurh like "tfa mmoth
Frauds," in the election of Tihlen and
Hendricks, tlie seizure of tlie National
Government, "the transfer" to- Washing
ton of "the worst ring of political thieves
that eTer preyed upon a people, all under
its old slogan of "Retrenchment, Econom y.
Reform!"
O ! "Humbug. (Diabolism.) tfcv name
is Democratic Reform I "
tivsd Illnta.
A correspoikient of the Germantown
Telegraph otTera the lollowing- hints :
ItdoeRiit pay to reset thin wheel
tires. The chief strength of rh wheid
he in the rim.
' There- is crca-t economv in soakino-
the ieltoes ot buiHnew wacnn wheels
with raw linseexl oil : it will oreserve
the wood and save the tiMtwKitv ot
frequent
avoided.
frequent tire reltjng, an operation to be
When von buy a new fort or fcn.
good farming require that yen il the
nanaie. Jt corns but a trifle, anrl vonr
iooi iooks netter aud will wear longer.
V V. - . ... .
vjioou Harness kent nuft with hmu's
loot Oil 18 a credit to the ownpr. and a
comfort to the animal that wears it.
Soft harness hi stronger than a dry one.
t t-i .. , . . r.
i. iv sngntij eiasuc ana Dends without
i t: .
wrvsikiiig.
Horse stalls are usually maae too
narrow. A tired horse neeca room to
turn over and stretch his limbs; fatal
injuries come from" confining spirited
iiumva in snort, narrow sta:is. a tneud
had the best one of a vahiahlu emu
kicked by a strange horse in a short
1 1 , , , . .
ewii, wmcu Droxe a jeg. a pair oi
liandsoroe wewterti lionte were Iiroiurlit.
to take the place of the bays, and one
ui mem in one year KnocKea aown a
nip, perhaivs by iiarrow . stall, and is
now of trifling value,
x ne eviaonoe oetore the v uson iu
vestig&tlng committee ia said to show
that Samuel J. Tilden, , Democratic
candidate for the Presidency, was the
attorney ot th Credit Mobilier darinc
all tho important period ot jto life,
JS.X1- secretary Rristow ia stumniner
v orniopttor liyes and. Wbepler.
Bfatlontl Republican IMatTorni,
Whftrt. In the imnnmir nit tmI1...
this land was to be nnnred nf human iin.
and. when the strength of government of
. ... MnAnl. . . . , . . , , - .
fi hfmimv hi" pwpje ana jor ine people
Wat0 be ilpmonsfrated, tbp Republican
nart-p came intA mmp 11m i..uia i.-A
passed intQ liitopy. itnc we look back to
Uumattlh nrlio T ...-.! fl k... -k-l-
r " t t" UJ IIICII IIICIIIIV-
fjes high ntoM fcF the good of onr conn-
fM mA -tnanL-tn anil 1 . . I . I . . . L..
ww l,I-Prlti wrji;a "tpo 41K1 purpose.
tlpnat CqnyentlP" assembled, make the fol
1. Th UaltM' States of America 5s a
bivif iiuv Mi icitiu uy 11(13 VUIUUIIICU
Vlrr.rlclr.Cf Xm r iisnnl nnrl Sfn mivArn.
The rights of every citizen are secured at
Iuvhu .....I ni.ti. it n -, . . 1 . . .1 iu.,... n n
huMm i ' . '
2. The Republican party has preserved
. Z C t 1., 1 It t. 1
versary of the Nation's birth, and they are
now embodiments of the great trut hs spoken
at Its cradle, "that all men are created
equal ; that they are endowed by their"
Creator with certain unalienable fights,
among which are life, liberty and the pur
suit d? happiness ; that for the attainment
of these ends governments hate been instU
tuted among men, deriving their just pow
ers from the consent of the governed.'
Until these truths are cheefftilJy qbeyed.or
it need be, vigorously enforced, the work
of the Republican party is Unfinished.
3. The permanent pacification of tho"
C-.....1-. . : ... .1 tT..l, n ,,A tUa
ooutnerii &et;Liuii ui wits riiii. n . .. v..
protection of all Its citizens In the free en
joyment of all their rights and duties, to
pledged. The power to provide for the en-
for cement of the principles embodied fnt
the recent Constitutional amendment i
vested hv those nriwiul men ts in the Conff fPlMt
of the United States, and we declare it to
lm K aVj-tlAnm Kliivartrin tf lltA lorrlatu f tvA
ac i lit; aviriiiu tnnniivii wa mo v -us w
and executive departments of the govern
ment, to put into immediate and vigorous
exercise all their constitulional powers for,
removing any just onuses for discontent on
the part of any class, and for securing to
every .American citizen complete lilertr
aud exact equality, in the exercise ot ail
civil, political and tmblic rights. To this
end we imperatively demand a Congress
and a Chief Executive, whose courMge and
fl!ititir Ia tlieaA jlutiea cltslll int fiilrer tintll
these result are placed beyond dispute or
ICdlll. j
4. Iu the first act of Congress signed bv
President Grant, the National Government
assumed to remove any doubts of irs pur
pose to discharge all just obligations to the
public creditors, and "solemnly pledged Its
filitli to make nrovisions nf the enrliest. tiran-
ticahle period for the redemption of the
Liiiiteu states notes in coin." commercial
tirosiierltv.-tlllhiin tuor-sllA nnrl nullinn 1 eiail
it demand that the promise be fulfilled by
a continuous and steady progress to specie
payment;
5. Under the Constitution, the President
and heads of departments are to make nom
inations for office, the Senate is to advise
and consent to appoint ments.and the House
of Representatives is to accuse and prose
cute faithless officers. The best interest of
the public service demands that these dis
tinctions be respected ; that Sana tors anil
Represent;itive whet may be Jndges and ac
cusers, slvonld not dietate appointments to
office The invariable rule iu appointments
should have referoiice to the honesty, fideli
ty and capacity of tlie a ppohifees. giving
to tlie party in power those places where
harmony and vigor ef administration re
quire Iu policy to be represented, but per
mitting all others to he filled by persons
selected with sole reference to the efficiency
lo the public service, and tho right of ail
citizens to share in the honor of roniWirkn--
fiiithftfi service to tne country
6., We rejoice iu the quickened conscience
of the people concerning political affairs.
..-Til 1. .. t . 1 ..11 - . . , . ... .
mi iiiiim mi i pnuiic omeers to a rigui
resnonsiliilitv. and enitnm tH,it- Miu nmu.
ctuion and punishment of all who betrav
official trusts shall Ee swift, thorough, ut3
Unsparing.
7. The nnblfi' school svetenirilm cm..n r
States is tiie bulwark of the Amerlcnn-Re-
iun(. .inn ilii it tihw LO-irK seetirirv-anir
permanence, we recommend nu Hinenclment
iw me ,uniiitiiioii or tne . iiitetl stutes for
bidding the .ippiipriation of any public
funds or nronertv for the Ki.ui.flr r .
schools or institutions under sectari.Hil cou-
iroi. . i
8. The revenue, neeessnt-v few emw.,,e
ivnniiures andrhe obligations of the public;
oem, iinist, ikj largely ne rivet I irom duties ,
npon importations, which, so far as possi
ble, should be adjusted to promote the in
terests of American labor, and advance the
prosperity of the whole country.;
9. We reaffirm our opposition to further
grants of the public lands' tn corporations'
aud monopolies, and demand that the na
tional domain be devoted to the free uses of
tlie people. -
10. it is the iinperntfve duty of the gov
ernment so to mouity existing treaties will
Enrojiean governments that the same pro
tection shall lie a (lorded to the adopted1 '
American citizen that is given to the unlive
bom, and that all necessary laws should lie
passed to 'protect immigrants, in the nb
sence ot power in the States f.r rhat pur--pose.
, . - .
11. It is the iuniieili ilf dutv of Congress
to fully Inve-'igate iIh- eff. vt "of the immi
gration and rmportatinn of Mongolians up
on the moral and material interests ot tho
country.
P2. The Republican party recognizes with)"
approval the substantial advances rccentlv
made toward the establishment of eqtinf
rights tor woman by the manv Important'
amendment effected by Republican legi--latcires,
in the laws which concern tl.e per
sonal aud property, relations of wives,
mothers and widows, and by the appoint
ment and election of Women to the nperin- . j
tendence of education, or chnrlfies. and"
other pnblic trusts. Tlie honest demand- I
oftiiis etass of citizens fciradditional ritrhts. '
privileges, and immunities, should be treat--
wiii.i rc-uecniii cruisnierniion.
13. The Constitution confers npoti Con
gress sovereign powr ovr the Ten ltorle
of tne United States tor rheir govern menr.
and in tlie exercise of this power it ! right
and the duty ot Congress to prohibit and'
extirpate in the Territories that relic ot -barbarism,
polygamy ; and we dcmaml
such legislation as shall secure this end inP
the snpremacy nf American institntions In
all the Territories. 1
14. The pledges which the natfon has
given to her soldiers and sailors mnst be
tnlfllled. and a gratefnl people will always
hold those who imperiled their Uvea f,,r
their country's preservation !u the kindest'
iciiiciiii'iniu c -
15. We sincerely deprecate a!l sectional
feelings and tendencies. VVc. therefore,
notewilhcleepsolicitiKle.th.it the Demo- "
cratic party counts, as Its chief hope of Mtc-4
cess, upon the electoral vote of a united '
South secureil through the efforts of those
who were leceutly arrayed n&alust the na
tiou. and we invoke the earnest attention
of the country to the grave truth that a
success thus achieved would reopen si-ction- '
al strife, imperil national honor and human"
rights.
16. We cliarge the Democratic-party
with being tlie same in character and spirit
as when it sympathised with treason; with
making its control of the House of RepHtw
sentatives the triumph and opportui.l:r
the nation's recent ne; with reasserting
and applauding in tiie National Capital the
oetiflmeiita of iiiireneiirniit r,Hl 1 1... . ...t.t
sending Union soldiers to the rear, and
promoting Confederate soldiers to the front)
with deliberately proposing to repudiate
the plighted faiih of the government ; with
being false and hnoecile upon the ovi rhad- -owing
financial questions ; with th nrtifu '
a ft . 1 .4f ..!.... 1 1. . r
wo "-i ji.u " pm ii-ii nusnian-,
ageinent and obstruction of investigation 1
with proving itself, thropgh the period ot
itss ascendancy In the Iower House of Con-,
gtiRss, utterly incqmpetent to administer
the government, and We warn the country
against trusting a party thus alike wnwor
;(iy. recreant and Incapable.
17 'I'lw. Vuttotml ' A rl,t..lSril ' " ..
t" t", ........nmim,, merits
cqmirtendation- for it honorable wor in
inc lunilHeiiietii, iFj- upmestlC ailU . rorelrrn -
affairs, and President Grant deserves the
continued hearty gratitude of tlie American
people for his patriotism and his eminent
services in war aiifi, n peace. ,
PbpflaXoI"" '.'':,''
a i4ic Efody nr niph lma for
Sale. Cheap.:,;;
SMS SL0f hSE& COUNTY :
etibieof tiZr
"""" iim, aim outhonsea tlierwr.n-.ii
- " cn-t,iu VlirlTI,
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