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"My forecast of the situation is that 'the machine' willsquelch the reformer (but of that we can judge better afterthe Republican State nominations); that the financial issuewill drop to the rear; and the Republican managers willendeavor to force on us the Southern question and obscurethe reform issue. I hope our friends will not dally withthe Southern question, but say (defiantly and offensively, ifneed be) that they will give no moral sympathy or support[451]to those who seek to deprive the negroes of any of theirpolitical rights or embarrass the free exercise of them.Rightly or wrongly, they are citizens, and we at the Northmust look upon them as such. Under the recent decisionsof the Supreme Court (which are correct) the Federalgovt., certainly the President, can do little; but it doesseem to me that your moral influence, if judicially manifestedin a letter for publication (as it would be by you),would do good in every respect.

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"Accustomed as I was to converse with Mr. Tilden freelyupon all public questions, even when our views were most atvariance, having always been in the habit of reading everythingwhich I knew to come from his pen, I feel that I maysafely challenge anybody to produce a particle of evidence,either oral or in print, of any sympathy on his part eitherwith secession or with slavery, or any evidence that in thecourse he felt it his duty to pursue he was not actuated byhis best judgment as to what was wise and right for the governmentand for the welfare of his country. After the breachwith the South in 1854, I think I am competent to affirm thathe had no partisan relations whatever with slave-holdingStates. In a letter to the Evening Post, written in February,1863, he speaks of being taunted by Senator Preston King asan object of proscription by the South, and of being asked ifhe thought his name could pass the Senate of the UnitedStates.

"A year and a half later, when Mr. Tilden, accompaniedby ex-Gov. Morgan, visited Washington for the purpose ofsecuring greater harmony of action between the Federal andState government, Mr. Stanton, in a conversation with Mr.Tilden, referred to this advice, and added: 'I beg you to rememberI always agreed with you.' I refer the more freelyto the deference which Mr. Stanton testified to Mr. Tilden'sjudgment in these matters, because it is known not only to[459]the Hon. Peter H. Watson, then Assistant Secretary of War,but to some, at least, of the members of Mr. Lincoln's Cabinetwho are now living.

"Had General Ruger asked me for advice, and if I hadgiven it, I should, of course, have notified you of my actionimmediately, so that it could have been promptly overruledif it should have been deemed advisable by you or othersuperior in authority. General Ruger did not ask for my advice,and I inferred from that and other facts that he didnot desire it, or that, being in direct communication withmy military superiors at the seat of government, who werenearer to him in time and distance than I was, he deemedit unnecessary. As Genl. Ruger had the ultimate responsibilityof action, and had really the greater danger to confrontin the final action in the matter, I did not venture toembarrass him by suggestions. He was a department commanderand the lawful head of the military administration[510]within the limits of the department; but, besides, I knewthat he had been called to Washington for consultation beforetaking command, and was probably aware of the viewsof the administration as to civil affairs in his command. Iknew that he was in direct communication with my superiorsin authority in reference to the delicate subjects presentedfor his consideration, or had ideas of his own whichhe believed to be sufficiently in accord with the views of ourcommon superiors to enable him to act intelligently accordingto his judgment and without suggestions from those noton the spot, and not as fully acquainted with the facts ashimself. He desired, too, to be free to act, as he had theeventual greater responsibility, and so the matter was governedas between him and myself.

"As I have been writing thus freely to you, I may stillfurther unbosom myself by stating that I have not thoughtit lawful or wise to use Federal troops in such matters ashave transpired east of the Mississippi within the last fewmonths, save so far as they may be brought into action underthe article of the Constitution which contemplated meetingarmed resistance or invasion of a State more powerfulthan the State authorities can subdue by the ordinary processes,and then only when requested by the Legislature, or,if it could not be convened in season, by the Governor; andwhen the President of the United States intervenes in thatmanner it is a state of war, not peace.

"Mr. Tilden's views of the policy which the Democraticparty in Congress ought to pursue in respect to the countingof the electoral votes cast for President and Vice-Presidentin 1876 were perfectly defined and freely expressed toall who consulted him long before the meeting of Congressin December of that year. It was to stand firmly andinflexibly on the unbroken series of precedents formed bythe twenty-two Presidential counts from 1793 to 1872.

"I have also been censured for assenting to the completionof the count in accordance with the provisions of thelaw which I helped to frame, and which received my cordialapproval and my vote. As an honorable man, I do not seethat any other course was open to me, but if honor had permittedotherwise, my judgment is that it was the wisestcourse for the country, as well as for the Democratic party,to proceed in accordance with the law to the orderly completionof the count, although we knew that it would result inthe installation of Hayes into an office to which he had nohonest right, except such as might be deprived from the unjustdecisions of a tribunal which we had helped to create.My reasons for this conclusion are as follows: If the counthad been defeated, and the bill to provide for a vacancy inthe office of President had become a law, a new electionwould have taken place in November next: meanwhile theoffice of President would have been filled by a Republicanchosen by the Senate. The whole power of the administrationwould therefore be under the control of the Republicanmanagers. In order to succeed they must hold on to SouthCarolina and Louisiana, which would necessarily involvesustaining by force the usurping governments of Chamberlainand Packard, with all their unlawful excrescences inthe way of unscrupulous returning boards. The patienceof the people of these two unhappy States is utterly exhausted.They would break out in open rebellion against a governmentthus forced on them, and continued in power by thearmed forces of the United States. Civil war would result.The Federal government would re-enforce itself with all thetroops at its command; the other Southern States wouldnaturally rush to the aid of their suffering sister States; thesafety of the colored as well as the white population wouldbe endangered; and a call would be made for volunteers and[552]militia from the Northern States to suppress the rebellion,and thus the flames of civil war would be lighted all over theUnion, in the midst of which a free election would be impossible,and a military despotism take the place of civilgovernment. This generation would pass away before thecountry would recover from the disastrous consequences ofsuch a fratricidal strife.

"To me, therefore, on the one side was anarchy and civilwar, inevitable and disastrous of all the hopes of free government;on the other side was peace and order, with freespeech, a free press, and the ballot-box still preserved to us.

"The two Houses of Congress have all the powers ofverification of the electoral votes which the Constitution orthe laws supply or allow. Nobody else in the Federal governmenthas any such powers. This exclusive jurisdictionof the two Houses has been exercised without interruptionfrom the beginning of the government. It is known to allthose who come in contact with Mr. Tilden at this periodthat he concurred in this view of the powers and duties of thetwo Houses of Congress themselves to count the electoralvote. He was perfectly free and unreserving in the expressionof his opinions on this subject.

"Mr. Tilden is looking remarkably well, and declares himselfto be very much improved in health by his sojourn atthis pleasant resort. He said to me that his trip has noconnection whatever with any business enterprise or railroadscheme, as has been announced without authority in some ofthe papers. As to the events which have happened since thePresidential election and the numerous wild rumors circulatedin reference to his political intentions, Mr. Tildentalked very freely. In regard to the electoral commission,he said that he had never had any real confidence in thearbitration of a question where there was so much at stakeby a body of that kind. That settlement, he said, involvednot only the Presidency, but all the patronage and power ofthe Federal administration, together with all the schemes,plans, and jobs connected with it. The Republican partyand the men who had managed it in the past were too anxiousto retain the administration to yield any point in an arbitration.The result of the electoral commission, therefore, waswhat might have been expected considering the power andinfluence brought to bear upon the political majority of thatbody as finally constituted. 2ff7e9595c