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I -1 : ' i It w- lit CiOVERXMENT WAS INSTITUTED FOR THE GOOD OF THE GOVERNED y -V y y " : - I - i VOL. I. THE RANDOLPH REGULATOR. r i ; i j r . t s i r e i v k v e n y w k d in e.s day BY the Randolph rijm.isniXG co, rvrui:- 2 hooks kaft or the COfliT iiousk. One Year, po-tage paid Six Month-", po-tagy paid $2 00 .1 00' ; BATES OF ADVERTISIIfQ. One square, one iri.-crtlon Oik; wpun-, two insertion...-. One squaw, thn-i: in.-crtirlns.. t)ne square, four insertion..;. One square, 'three months Ui5-MMiar. -six mouth-... ..... ..$1 00 ...2 oo ...3 oo ...r oo Oik- -j!ian twelve month For lar.-r a.Jvcrti-. inenfs lilWal con- 12 00 irw.ts rvill I'm made. I.wimvu iich 9 olid un-viff e.ontituic one square; All kiud of .JO IS WO I IK do " ItiMi i.wmi" oll'r.f, in thi Kvl aii'l"o!i i amia1l' n!-; jie .'it the li'njL for hen pn- i i-intr -oui.n-ivi (in,; Sam i; Ml j. TiLbiiN U.Vhj of lLm. A 11 RAM X HEW- 7'7' to thi Atlark 6f MA hi the j i rune of 7!''jrespitalii''?, Auin.st 1 , 170. I Mr. Hewitt, cr New Yo i ... k. Mr Speaker, to mo tue .speech v liic!i the . Uf-ntlfman from Towa delive red this j veiling was a painful surprise ami n ! mclaneholy experience; If F no. heard it. I could not have beliftved -thai fi gentlein:iri of hi;: inte;ll;ctua) in nts could so far allicdte endown- . lllS OWll self-respect and forfeit the goo.J op'l'ion of' his felloe nrrn:?,Vrs in this luuse as to have indulged iilh partisan and, I :nn sorry to add, 'tin; malioioi i f !' 1 t state - . inents wnicii lie nas ur.ule m l eL'arU to 4 I (.oveinor 'lildeii. J Confess that I lo . . . . i ' . . i . i i i i i mm iniriiu io inaive anv eiaoor; to what he has said in this 11 ite replv ijukp: 1 approac h ?nli'-rts a':' f v.( hold of a slimy snake, wita a urn t;ik le.-ire to. gift I id, ol it, at uie eailit'.-t pos puU: mo- b against fhent: ' J no .whom vearft and -liarget:' were inn f ha . j 'ka.own Uj'T so many with sinh intiniack' that it Si'Cjn.r to i;:e i have no other course to (akin than to brand th'i charges .''vifals(! b.' f.iio this House ai tf, utter d before the country. Ik -.1 i n. i A(-:r. w inch (Imrge:;Ioes. the ,.d a regiment, and that Governor Til g.'j.,'ivman iVoin New York nie-lin ? hhm was a contributor.' andi hiro en,,. 'Mir Hr;vt?r. of New York f will state the charges:' I nWas L'oiii? to state ' ' y - c '.hem. The first charire was tl at Ciov- The-first ehare was tl at Gov- rnor Tilden had been a :;t c and thcie vero quoted as autln that assertion statements a'ari ssiomst. )iitv lor passages from mi opc-n letter to the la e .) unco i Kent, dated in lSGO The ir ntlcman from Iowa possesses chly extracts from . i . ,o allow me to look at those-ex fl rir?.t letter. o wm o-r p4 racts. Now, I have only to say in regard to that leffer that neither the ne itl-?tian from 1 )m iowa nor any otiier peiTson can unae.-sianu ho tro purport aipl bear- ini of it withoiU having the en! tire let- fer bfSrchim and without haVi r sniiin o ' rclcrence to the circumstance s under which it was wiitteu. It is noi t saying much Cat since 1800 a trreat m: tiy peo pie in this conn try have had their the ories of government changed jnd their Ericas of political iTutirs enlarged. U is possible' that in l CO, bi fore the late strife, -ucYcrnor '.Tilden mayljave en- tertaineri views in common witli JefTer - wn, Madison, and .Tackson, anil other great men who hae.gnen eonsfuction u) llio Constitution and Government of this country,-wich now would" be mod ified. But all that I can see hr the ex tract which" he read relates rather to that era the Government - vhen the States were bound together, not by the Constitution, but bv 1 the- Articles of Confederation.' The next charge that the g qrlthnan niado against Uovi ru.-ir TJhT.r. I ! was in exactly these wii;ds: "That hi w.i as a disunionist. ' When the onestilon w:is i i ; pressed homo to him he traveled around ho I point a little, but still thJ cluie renVamed that he. wirs'a disuuioaistL I do not know upon what he based that charge. I can only say that 'at JheouL iireakf of the rebellion I was in dailv and almost in hourly communion with him, and I know that no more l oyal or patriotic heart heat in the United States at that date; and when the gentlomau from fowa challenges his friemb: to say hen and where lie ever made any con tribution to the Union cause or ever assisted a soldier to tho War, 1 answer him by baying that when the jferst cull ASHEBORO, NORTH j for troops came, Tammany Hall, which had not then fallen into the hands of the ring, raised a regiment, and the grand sachem of Tammany Hall, Wil liam D. Kennedy; rrai colonel of the regiment. It was officered mostly by members of the Tammany Society, and being myself a member and from the state of my health j unable to go to the war, although I rendered other serviced, I sent my nephew as one of the officers of that regiment. Mr. Lawiam. Will the gentlemail allow me to ask him a question? Mr. Hewitt. Yes, sir. Mr. Lapiiam. Does net the goiitle. man know that the ball for the meetin" !rit Cooper Institute immediately after j. tile fall of Fort Sumter" was presented 1 to Mr. .'Tilden for him to sijrn and he refused to sign it and refused to attend the tticetin"? : Mr. Hewitt, of New York. I will answer thai question that it. Is not true that he refused to sign the1 call, and that it is true that he did attend t!ic meeting, applaiisej and I defy that, rr'.t!cui:in t'j bring any authority for the i charge he lias insinuated. Mr. Laiiiam. It is a fact as well CnOWIl in ho. St.itnnf Now Vnrlr oo . - --w,v Jl M CIO !;,vv r.f!ir f-i-'fe ii. If a Mr. HkWiTTi of Now Ynrk: Tt. i ! not so. 31 r. Samuel Sloan: th nrpfit. . , ..L 11, f.WwI(M,f r,f flw T,,l,..., 1 Tl. I wanna Railroad V ompanv, then a mem- her of tlie Union safetv ccrhmlttee of I Xew York, aiu.lied to Mr. Tilden f. n jtiine when, he was enaired in tlie trial I ' Li. " - . . , v i. ! :. r befora a referee. to affix his his name to the call; and lie said, "I a Ml V"'!'v j' usy Mist now ; send me the resolutions after I am out of this case, and if thev are entirelv oroiiet- T will ; sign th;' c.'iil:" When the meetifm look place he attended a: 'ihe call was ; never sent to him and he never refused to sign if; but like the prurient and sai traeious knowiflto nr.tio of the resolutions. They did receive hlz absolute and un qualified approval. . V Now I say that Tammany Hall rais- j . r , tributor, to the '.fund required to fit out the retriment. ': i o f V 3Ir. C'onokk. lfow fVicb' ? Mr. Hnwn r, of New "York. Iam not going to quote dollars and cents. Patriotism is above dollars and cents in soinc quarters; bu! enough was raised , by the democrats of. the city fit out fa regiment without asking assistance from the Government of the United States or from the city of New York. j Applause. 2$oi so much' fcr the charge of his being a disunionist. Afr Coxoeh i Will the gentleman ;allow me ask hh:i cD miesfioii? x - Mr. Hewitt, of New York. Ccr- famly. T am here to answer questions. ,3lr. Congjiu. I t is denied in the public press that Governor Tilden ever contributed any money whatever to the raising of any regiment or corps of the Army. Will the iwntlcraan" state to the TTcii3e when and where and v7hat amount he ever did contribute ? Mr. Hewitt, of New York. I state ' vV-l,n, u-l,n 1 t Uont was raised ; and I state where, ! in th,2 city of Xew York t and I state how. much, for I Co not know- the ex. act amount, but it was all he was asked to give, and the Democrats did not go begging, carrying the hat around among the Republicans, (laug!.cr,V and cer tainly we did not get any help from Michigan. Subsequently to this period, I know of no :r.aa in New! York who was more frequently called into counsel f thero and in Washington during the troublous times of the war, and when there was delay is' raising the men re quired to recruit the armies of the Unit ed States I know that twice he was called for by President Lincoln and came to Washington and hekl careful consultation' with him, resulting in the early and rapid filling of the quota from the State of New York. And I know that during no jeriol of the whole of that trving time was- there ever a doubt cxprssed in the city of New York in any quarter as to the loyalty and patri otism of Samuel J. Tilden. The gentleman from Iowa savs that when Mr, Tilden went to the Chica&d convention he was in layer of a re so- rr. . CAROLINA; WEDNESDAY, SEPT; 13, 1876; lution practically declaring that the war was a failure and ought to be brought to an end. That gentleman must have kn'dwn, if he reads the newspapers, that within a Very recent period, certainly jwithin a month, there has been made public a positive state ment from Mr. Manton Marble, who was the secretary of the committee on resolutions, thatlGovernrir Tilden op posed the resolution of which the cen tleman from Iowa speaks ; that he op posed it publicly and in private. It is within my own knowledge that af ter the hominatlcn was tendered to General McClellan, Governor Tilden urged him to make such a declaration in his letier of 'acceptance as would, nullify that portion of the Chicago platform. . . Mr. Randall. Which was " the Union at all hazards' Those were the words. Mr. Hetvett, of New York. Those verc the words inserted in McClel lan's letter. Now the gentleman from Iowa says that 'i here never was any occasion in which Governor Tilden made a declaration in favor of the tJnitin cr the prc-seciition of the war for its preservation. If that gentle man would study the records of the Chicago convention for the sake 6T doing justice, as he has evidently studied them for the s?.rc of doing in justice, to Governor Tilden,-he would finu that in that! convention, and be fore the New York delegation, in an open meeting,- Governor tilden said thiit t!i6 adjustment of the controver sy between the North and the South on any other basis than the restora tion of the Union rra3 impossible; that Ihs moment; any party went out of the Union thp questions must be t settled by war, and the war must be prosecuted untill the questions were settled. These were lu3 declarations, pub lished in the Chicago and New York papers at "the very date of the Chicairo convention, andj fortunately for4 the gentleman; who likss ?cry feceut and modern literature, ho' can find those declarations repeated in a sketch pub lished in the Louisville Coiirier. Jour nal on the 25th of April last. That is my answer to the statement of the gentleman from Iowa,, that Governor Tilden never made any declaration in favor of the prosecution of the war, and that he was a disunionist: We hotf come down to the next charge, that Governor Tilden was the associate of William M. Tweed on a democratic committee, that her levied a contribution on William' M. Tweed of $5,000, and that he issued a ei ren- har in combination r'ith William "M. Tweed, intended to promote the fraud ulent election, of a Governor of the ;Stitc of itcw York. I " It is true that Governor Tilden was chairman of the democratic commit tee of the State of New York ; and it is also true that William M. Tweed" was a member of that committee. And if the gentleman fcntms anything about the oianization of such com mittees in the State of New York, he knows tlir.t cSch district nominates and sends its own member ; that Gov ernor Tilden hadj no more to do w ith , I I t the appointment cf William M.!Uono1 law- I was with him in those Tweed as a member of that commit- j transactions ; t Snow -rht hi did; tee than he has to do with the man I knovv hi untiring efforts day and who is supposed to regulate the moon. ! niSht 1 know hat an army of clerks He vrals tl-.trc rightfully, a member of h9 P1.1 5 1 knoTV" how hc tracked tire comiriittec, and at the time he was j thcs l'plc to tL-sir dens of iniquity so acting hc had not achieved the bad i 411,1 finally dragged them forth to pub- eminence which he subsequently at tained and which he now occupies. No contribution was ever levied upon Mr. Tweed. Mr. Tweed did as other people have donei'asf T mv scjf have done, and as I have no doubt the. gentleman from Iowa has done, sent a contribution to the fund rrqrrlrcd by the committee to carry on the State 1- r election. That was leying no con- tribution. j Then as to thej issue of that circci lar, the lie has been nailed here by my colleague Mr. Cox. If any man doubts whether that declaration of Governor Tildenjwhichhasbcfnteal, was publisheil in the Evening Jostot the 4th of November, 1868, the files are accessible to them. I saw it with iny own eye ; knew it was then published I know that not more than twenty-four hours elapsed from .the time the charge was made in the Eve ningr ToK and, it was first made in that paper, until the denial was made in the stme paper. That denial I here insert: caud irnoM mr, tilden. To pte EilUor of die Evening Posl: Slit : My. attention has been called to an :rticle In your journal of last evening containing a circular to which my nane is appended. I hasten to assure yvn that you will net lose ybur reputatioi as critics by assuming, on internal evidence, as you have correct ly done, that no such paper was ever written, sigr.e issued, or authorized by rne, or with any participation or on my part. I have read it for the first ti?c in your columns ; but I have no reason to believe that it had any such evil purpose as yon sus pect. ormyseir, I refused in 1811 to sign the famous secret circular re lating to Texas, uhich is celebrated in the historj'.o.f the Evtninn Post. though I might have been tempted by thb illustrious association in which I should have found myself. Neither before that nor since have I ever been concerned in any circular marked ' se cret," "confidential," or "private;" nor shall I be, unless I should adopt that device for the purpose of getting some valuable truth, disguised in such a form, secured a wide publicity in the Evening Post and all the Repub lican newspapers. Very truly yours, S. J. TILDEN. JTew York; November 4, 18G8.' Mr. Foster: Was it ever known who perpetrated that forgery on' Gov ernor Tilden ? Mr. Hewktt, of New York. Noth ing wis ever known .positively about it except that ilr. Tweed was proba bly the person -vho sent out that cir cular. I have never heard that there is any positive evidence to that effect. Bad as he is, unhappy as he is to-daj for his crimes, I hesitate .to charge him with a new crime without evi dence", in that respect I hope the gentleman from Iowa will follow mv example. Mr. Cam? 9X' of i llinois. Docs the gentleman claim that the circular was issued for an improper purpose ? .Mr.-IlEWETT ,of New York. I do not know rrhcther it was proper or im proper; but I say it was. charged -to be improper by the gentleman from Iowa. .Mr. CAjxon, 6 .Illinois. I believe Mr. Tilden claims in h"! letter that it was not improper. Mr. Hewett, of New Y'ork. This was in 18G8. Subsequently the ring, perhaps beginnir, their corrupt prac tices at tliat time for aught I know to the contrary, became so powerful in New York that tMy threatened to drive out and succeeded in driving out almost every decent man from the democratic party of tna't city. G oVcrnor Tilden for more than three 3-ears, like a sleuth-hound upon the scent, followed these people patiently," secretly, diligently, Spending that money of which the gentleman from Iowa thinks he is so parsimonious with a most liberal hand ; j-es, with a magnificence cf liberality that no pri vate citizen has ever exhibited in this country, in the performance of a pub lic duty not imposed by any obliga- lie execration ; and not stopping there he has pursued them until they arc either in prTscn or in exfle, and judg- j ments amounting to millions of dol- i lars have been taken against them, and over $600,000 in one case has been restored to" the treasury of the cit3 ofNcw York. Applause. iIr- Springer. That conduct of Governor Tilden i3 a warnTng to all sucu ieo4e, ana accounts for niucn of i the opposition to his election. Mr. Da v r. YT:l my collcagre f 3Ir Hewitt allow me just one question ? Mr. Iewitt, of New York. Cer tainly. . jMr. Davy. Dkl not Mr. Tiklen meet with Mr. Tweed as delegate in State convention which convened ' at Rochester a long tiiic after ticsc oc- - I.N. currency and aRcr the framU ofMr: .iweeu nau occn exposed, and dtdjMr. Tilden raise his voice arrainstlMr. Tweed taking a scat in that con'ven 4-7 . " tion ? 3ir. Hewitt, of New Ilork. f . , !Mv colleague Mr. Cox was a delegate to that convention and can. answc? better than I can. 'v - Mr'. Davy. I asked the gentleman who is iaddrcsing the House. . Mr. Hewitt, of New York. Cer tainly, but I yeild to my colleague! for ah answer to that question, becausi lfe was an cye-witns, and an cyc-witness is better than any second-hand testimony- j Mr. Cox. wai a dblcgatc to that convention along with Governor Til den and the other delegates named from the duTcrent districts! ? . A Member. To which convention t Mr. Cox. To the Rochester Con vention, to which my colleague fMr. Davy has referral. .1 A MEMBErL In what year ? ,!' Mr. Cox. I think in 1871. . JMri Davy, Docs my colleague re fer to the judicial convention or State donvention ? i Mr: Cox. I refer to the only time a convention ever met there.' 'i Mr. Davy. O, no; conventions met there several times. The judicial convention met there; j Mr Cox, Not of recent years. Let mc answer the gentleman's qustion. I know that Mr. Tilden's efiorU drove William M. Twecil out of that conven tion. Mr; Davy, i asked the gentleman whether Mr. Tilden raisctl his voice in that convention' against Mr. Tweed taking a scat. j Jlr. Cox. There was no necessity for his doing so, because Mr. Tc'cd was not in the convention. ' j Mf: ilETrr, of New Yoik.' "Mr. Tweet had no scat in that, convention; Mr. Davy. Was cny resolution passed in hat ccn vention against "the Tweed delegation taking seats ? j Mr. Hewitt, of New York. Thcv question which the gentleman asked me wm .whether Mr. Tild5n protested against Mr. Tweed taking a seat. Mr. Tweed took no seat in that convention. Tit. Davy. That is not the ques tion 1 put to the gentleman. I asked him whether Mr. Tilden ever raised his voice in that convention against 3lr. Tweed taking a seat.' . - L- Mr. Randall. He did not hayc a seat in that convention. I Mr. Hewitt, of New York. I can give a satisfactory answer to the gen tleman's question. I can say tq' him that Mr. Tweed at that time knew that Governor Tilden was his bitter enemy,' and Governor Tilden knew that Mr. Tweed was trying to Crush him ; and, as the gentleman knows per fectly well, if it hail not been for the staunch support and absolute confi dence ?7hich the . rural democracy' of the State of New York extended to Governor Tilden, he would have bechf: driven from cliairmanship of the State committee, as Ir. Tweed thrcatend he should be. Bui he was kept there by the honest democrats of the .-Stole of New York nntil he had pulled down and distroyed this temple of iniquity and driven tbesc scoundrels out j of the places they disgraced. Mr. Davy rose. j Mr. Hewitt, of New York. Now I am not going to be interrcptcd arid I crossuestioned. . ! r w rf - ' ! Jlr. Davt. I have, crtc more fines- i crtc more ques tion I would like my colleague to an swer. . Mr. IIewttt, of New York. I will answer i but I want to say thtt I am an ctteTly nnpracticed speaker.! I have never before addressed a body like this without notes for anything I like this length of time. If gen&tacn .M ,i " -.i. .t are putting these questions with the jruirposc, of dLsconocrTrg mc, they ; 1 L. A A I ' . .rf' I ou-ht to have more resiWt for if. An. feclves. 4 r Davy. I hope my colleague docs not attribute any such motive! to me. ; j X 3In3iiEa Jo Mr. Hetitt). Voa can hold your own very welL j Mr. Davy. I want the naked fatts of this case. Hr. Hewitt, of New York. Tbc 1 NUMBER 33. jbare, natibd. fact Is this: There was war, "war to the knife," between Gov. j Tilden and Mr. "Tweed ; and it ended 1 in the defeat and exile of Mr. TwectL ! . Loud applause. That is all there li i abbtitit. ! T I ' - . ' , . . .i T . 1 r . .. . V can uiis iiouse to witness tnt I have answered and ahi willing to an swer every question of asabBtantivQ character bearing upon the merits of this case which any man can ask xncl But when gentlemen undertake to! chatechiso mc about pcttcy matters of details 1 must" decline to aniwerl . Mr. Speaker, the fact is perfectly ncn toriotis, and certainly no man in his I senses, no fair and just man, will ever I for a moment intimate that there was the slightest intimacy, personal of po j Iitical. at any time between SamlJI Tilden and William M. Tweed. There never vrai sir: There was that asso ciation which comes from the enforced appointment of men on committees and of their living in the same commu." nity and belonging to the same party j but the one man stood in tne commu nity above and. beyond reproach, and the other was always an object of sus picion and finally of detestation. Mr. Davy rose; Mr. Hewett, of New York. I will not be interrupted more. I rtjown a disposition to answer all reasonable questions, and I 'decline to be inter rupted any more. Now thcjgcntlcman from Iowa Mr. LArriAM. The centlc'man i speaking by the grace of this side of I the house. . . , ! Mr. Hewett, of New York. I am not speakings by tne nrace of anybotly but of my own colleague and my con- ! stituenLs. aott, the gentleman from Iowa indulged in one insinuation of so j mean and despicable a character thaf j I almost hesitate to refer to it. If he ! could have blushed and I looked in- ! to his face as I sat near hirl ori Jar- i xsc if hc were capable of blushing r hc would have blushed then, but he did j not. Hc insinuated that tho private ; fortune of the Governor Tilden had j been acquired by some dishonorable,' and he did not dare to say dishonest, but he implied it, dishonest practices" in connection with' railways" and cor porations. Kow, when a man makcsL an insinuation of that sort hc sliouhP be prepared with proof. It is a mean,', unmanly, dislionorable charge for any man' to makebcalnd the back of another man who is not here to answer. But' I can tell that . gentleman, and I hope' his own record is as clear and as good,' that Governor Tilden was called from' 1857 to 18 CO into almost etcry broken V down raUvay corporation in tho West ;, that while he found them unable to' pay even running expenses, hc took them in hand and so' iulmiplateretl them that in every cabo the, bonds,' whether first, second, or Diird mort gage, and Qi6 stock, , preferred and common,, all ultimately went above par ; and he enriched tiie people that' .were wise enough and fortunate enough' to have secured his services. Iam personally .amonjj tlk numbers of those,' vho we.rc benefitted by his wise and' fsagacious management; and I say so I r r . . iar irom naving oecn overpaid in any of these transactions, . th&t his legal, fees and his jr?r5osar services were tho cheapest and most poorly rewarded T have ever known in a long busbies career, dealthg In large transactions jn mil prfc- of thU oouutry and in Eu-' rone. ' , I defy tlcsc gentlemen to lay their hands upon a' disiionest dollar in the' possesion of Samuel J. Tilden. -J tbc PcopJe whom ho served J1? h.u fri5m3 Jcst' fnends. And . it U the, scnicc there whii, i rrr,,?wi 't . whicli he rendered to tho West, not withstanding the insinuations of thc gentleman from' Iowa, that will cive ll,c voie OI u-cc greax vy tsicrn UlrTl . hirrh-.r. -u to-day the .arteries pf coxnmcroc ami public . blksli.gs, the - valoe of whkh cannot be properly estimated. A,n! f3 lhroaS1f J V1 f hi? re"' . rnarkablc career he has been- tLc wisest of aMr u.i' trt?t f friends, hc has been Uic mot,t zealous' 1 . .. . . . and earnest oi paxnots, so to-oay he is the wisest, the most, accomplished statesman in the land, and he rill, by( 'Si XAsit cf Gotl, be enc of the. greatest, perhaps tU greatest of the lVcsidenU of the United States, be cause he will have the opportunity to' reserve this Government from the hnds of tho incompetent and dishonest cer who hare controlled it so long, and made it a reproach in the eyes of the? civihrcl globe, f C real app'ar' : A t s ' f ,1 . MM V v.
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