Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 25, Number 54, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1876 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30 1876.

WEDNESDAY, AUOU-T 30.

Julian's speech hurts terribly. The demaid tor Julian's speech by the people is ur-rrecednted. Itia Fot i robatne tum Mr. Morton will make another key-note speech here daring the canvass. Morton's bloody anirt will need another drenching aJter Senator McDonald pronounces its history. That indtpaideut newspaper, the EvenIn? News, Joins In the Rdical attack upon the Independent J ulUn. Et tu, Brute. The dterepatabie attack upon Mr. Julian in the Journal attests the power of his logic, and toe truth of hi propositions. The spirit of reform is in the very air, and the result of the contest In Indians now can not, be changed by all the salaries of the Washington fflclals. The New 9 was intensely radical last evening. It it continues to make progress as it has done in the last lew weeks it will be sieging bosannahs to the noble war governor yet before be canva'g is over. Is it true that large tarns of money have been paid to ail the leading colored vote controllers to keep that element In har mony with th prtv ot great moral ideas? Is it troe tnt me leaders ot the colored Republicans have, as iar as heard from, failed to divide the corruption lund placed in their bands, with the colored voters a directed by the Radical party leaders who hav - to resort to such means to keep them In line? No man iu tbesiate of Indiana is better apable of meeting Senator Morton upon bis own ground and answering him Irouo his own record, and from facta in his own political L? story than his old colleague in Congms, George W.Julian. His trenchant lance will find all the weak points in the armor of th great war governor. - wis Since writiug me editorial comments on the Kilpatrick letter, touching its authenticity, we have received a special telegram from Delphi, in which it la staled that Gen eral Kilpatrick public;? admitted that be had written the letter as published in the Sentinel. He has acted wisely, even it he does have to be withdrawu from the canvass. We dislike personal j mrnaliem a? much as the Journal professes to do, but since it keeps up its atiack upon Mr. Scobey, after tbat genileiuau baa explained the Charge against him, we return a Roland for its Oliverinthe rtcord of J. Wesley Tucker, contingent elector for the Republican party for tte Sacond district. See letter from 1'aoM. Will Major Friedley, chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, deny tb4t the coinmiU.ee have received a large amount of juoCs collected from the clerks ot the departments and other officeholders cf Washington by Edmunds for tbe pugebase of the "poor, needy and in debt" leaJtrs and members of the Independent part j? Will he deny tbat hisefTjrts to purChase are failure-? Governor Hendricks has at length yielded to the earnest solicitations of his old friends in Ste'.b? county, and will address the people there n Saturday next at 1 o'clock P. m. II any body is disposed to doubt the njriv meut among tbe people for reform, let them go to Shelby vllle Saturday, nd see a concourse of 25.000 people at the fair ground. Bu&ines dt-presaloa is tha result oi bid legislation by the Republican party. What class ol dozens desire a continuation ot auch destructive rule? D"je9 t ie mecaauir, itb decreased wsgts a'jd scarcity ot labor? Does tne rmreaant, wl h hia limited Bilöi? Does the lutr.ufaeturer, with na market lor his wares? Does the fari?r, with prices of produce so low that he caa scarcely save money enough to py taxps? Does the doctor, with his empty purse? Does the preacher, witb hia scant salary ? Does the capitalist with bis idle monej? Does the landlord with bis moceyles tenant? To all ttene questions there is but one aoswer, and tbat is. no. Bat If we ask another qaestion, D j tbe t Aloe holders web perpe! nation of Radieal ru le ? tbe answer is, yes. Can the per pie afford to indorse bankruptcy, poverty and ruin for the sake ot this favored lew who are leeches upon tht nation. Let them answer by their Votes this fall. !a!assc!aa Tbe Radicals of this state have fust cause to complain of the action of their Central Committee in their importation of speakers. Still another has fallen by the way. Colonel Ben D. Nabers, spoke too near the region where Bourbon is manufactured and did several things contrary to tbe ordinances made and provided by the city ot Jeffersonvllle, and the result was tbat he was brought before tbe Police Court. The Radicals deserted him, but a few clever Democrats, not wishing to see a ttranger severely dealt with, begged him eff, and put him to bed, in order that he migbt be ready for his opponents. We are getting rather tired cl reading these delinquencies, and trust that the Radical Central Committee will revise their 1it. The Journal, iur toe past few days teems to have been exerc'sed unduly over visit of Austin H.ErowD,Eq , to Louis

vllle last week, as if something disreputeble was connected with said visit. For

the satisfaction of the Journal we would . Inform them tbat Mr. Brown made a visit to Louisville, partly on business and partly tor pleasure, and to be particular, we may say further tbat tbe pleasure part of the visit had relation to the National game, and that tbe special matter oi bus'ness led blm to visit prominent citizens of Louisville, and to further tbe objects ot bis business, be requested a note of introduc tion to the Hon. Henry Watterson from Governor Hendricks. The business was to make those he visited acquainted witb the ffcet that colonizing agents are already upon the borders of cur state preparing to la port a horde of colored votera into this state to vote tbe Republican ticket at tbe October election. It it should turn out that these emissaries find detectives on their track and their plans all i polled, the Journal may attribute their ill lack to tbe visit of Mr. Brown to Louisville, and thosa who are watching them in Kentucky and Tennessee. Further, tbe letter of Mr. Hendricks and tbe note rfquf sting the same contain nothing tbat either writer need be ar,r,''d Tbe lliptrick-llycs Letter. Some of the Republican papers, true to their instincts, deny the authenticity cl Kllpatrick's letter, and affect to believe tbat the Sentinel has palmed off a bogus letter upon the public In answer to this sort of comment we have only to say tha' the fiiecds of Gen. Kilpatrick in this city ran hear from him In half en hour by telegraph, and none of them dare to state that tbe letter is not genuine. 0;her papers pretend to believe tbat it is of little significance and scarcely worth noticing. Tbe Journal of this city, though it had direct inform btton that tbe letter was aut hentic, speaks of it as "purporting to be a letter from General Kilpatrick to Governor Hayes," and "it genuine," etc, merits no notice from the lact ttat it fell into the Sentinel's bands and was published. Tbla Is curious logic. The press of the country take a very different view of tbe case. Here is the opinion of one of the leading orators of the Republican party, in direct aLd familiar communication with the Republicau presidential nominee, and he tells him that the state is lost, and tbat money will save it, tbat tbe Indipandents ere poor, needy, and in debt, and that they will beat Harrison. If the letter means anything i: is that thote poor, needy debtors, can.ln their poverty, be purchased with money If he meant that they were only to be cbanned by giving them documents and lecturing tbem, why speak of tbem as poor aDd needy and in debt. Tbe plain lan guage of the letter to Mr. Hayes can net bt mistaken. It is corrupt and dishonor able, and if Gov. Ha) es were the spotless man that his party claim him to be, he would at once, and indignant!? demand of the National Committee tbat sucb corruption, proposed in his behalf, should net be tolerated. But it is unnecessary to enter into pir ticulars. The whole spirit or the letter is rauk with corruption atd dieoonesty. Tula man has been bowling over this state, echoing tbe deathwail of slaugbered negroes teat never died. Us baa beeu stiri ing up sectional ttrife, uttering tbs most infa mous falsehoods against tbe Democracy north and south, and has, to a certain small extent, received cheering from tbe worat elements of the Republican party. Ha believes the bloody shirt will succe.d q carrying the election for Harrison if the Greenback men can be won over. He tells Mr Hayes that this Is the ultimatum. Ia other words, that the Independents are poor and needy and in debt and are therefore purchasable. If tbe letter meaus anything it means just tbat. Tbe Journal cannot escapo tbe effects of such a letter by simply saying that it is 8mp y tbe view of one man. How did Mr, Kllptrlck cb'alu tb s view but from muiunion with the party ? He was here io mingle wtih a people. He beard their utterance. He knew the state ol foelicg i tbe carty, ihtt they felt themselves beaten, and as a friend of Hayes he communicated tbe facts to bim. The Journal fully endorses Gen. Kilpatrick as worthy to Instruct tbe people. Its columns yet teem with praises of his canvas, it can not go dsck on una now witb a dash of the pen. Nor does the party seem Inclined to has le blm out of tbe state as they did O'Conner. His contract still stands, and be goes about over the state teaching the people political wisdom, aad telling tbem to vote for Harrison while he writes private letters to Governor Hayes that Harrison is beaten. The significance of this letter Is in no way impaired by tbe method In which the Sentinel came into possesahn ol It, Gen. Kilpatrick himself will not dare to deny that it was thrown away and became waste paper in which be had no more right than tbe scavenger who gathers fragments upon the streets. It is a poor excuse for the facts tbat the letter reveal?, so damaging to the Republican party, to charge th Sentinel with dishonor in publishing It. We obtained it legitimately, and deemed it a duty to the people of this state, an - epe dally to the Independents, to publish it to the world. It abows the tbe character of tbe man whom the Repub licans Import to teach tbe people of In d ana hw to vote; that Hayea may be ap pealed to familiarly by his friends with corrupt propositions ; tbat tbe Republicans nf thta state know if there ia fair deal ing tbat Harrison will be defeated; that the Independents are deemed ptzrebasa be: tbat the bloody shirt cry la arrant hypocrisy; that the R-publlcans can not k. . ..al1 anvaaa nithrmt riateaf ' and finally tnat an effort is being made in

this state by the Radicals to Ignore the 'question of reform, and hide their rascal-

Hies and perpetuate their power by presentiog issues that have no significance at tbe present t'me, end in no way promise relief to the people. If tbe Journal can see no significance in all this, we tell it plainly tbat tbe people can, and tbe Journal will find It out before the close of the canvass. This letter of Kilpatrick must fully express the whole corrupt plan of the Radicals for carrying tbe state. It is timely and valuable to the people, and should open their eyes to the true Inwardness of the Radical programme n this state. Mr. J n 11a ii and hia Opera House Speech. When Mr. Baylies Hanna was called upon, last Saturday evening at tbe close of Mr. Julian's speech, he told his hearers that they bad just listened to one cf tbe most magnificent political disquisitions ever delivered to the country, bv one ot the most remarkable men of tbe country." Every intelligent man who reads the speech which appears in tbe Sentinel this morning will agree with Mr. Hanna in the 63 1 tin tte he places upon it and l's author. It's unnecessary tosiy much about tbe speech, for it is i's own bpet commentator, and no mm who desires to be informed upon current political topics will be satisfisd with an outline of it, when tbe speech iteeif is before him. Those who read it and are net personally acquainted with Mr. Julian will be anxious to know what manner of man bo is, and what he has done which entitles him to come before the Amei lean public, and tell tbe independent voters of the country their du'y in tbe present condition of political affairs George W. Julian Is a, native of Wayne county, Indiana. He is of French descent, his paternal ancea'ors bayiDg emigrated from Fiance and settled on the eastern shore ot Maryland about two hundred years ago. His father died when he was young, and he grew to manhood without the care and direction ot the one best fitted to mould his sentiments and direct bis footsteps. As is known.Wayne county was principally settled by Friends from Noito Carol it a and Maryland. It was a part ot tbe religion of these people to hate op pression in every form, and in no direction did this principle extend more forcibly than In opposition to American slavery. Most of these bardy pioneers left tbe states in which they wera born because he laws of these stares allowed one mac to own another, and in coming to Indiana and subjecting themselves to the bardships of a frontier life, they gave evidence of the sincerity oi their convictions and the fixejnfsiof their principles. It was among such a people as these tbat Mr. Julian grew to manhood, and it is co wonder tbat when be reached man's estate and entered upon tbe duties of citizenship he had a detestation of American slavery, and determined to make its destruction bis life work. In 1845 Mr. Julian was elected to the L'gislature Irom Wayne county, and Bsrved with credit. At tbe session of 1845-6 be was a Whig, and the year before had supported Mr. Clay for the presidency. Two vears alter this, In 1843, be was a delegate to tbe Buffalo convention, and s umped Indiana for its nominees Van Buren and Adams. He threw his soul into tbe campaign, being an elector -on the Free Soil ticket, and did everything in biB power to build up an anti-slavery party In the country. In 1849, the Freesoilers ol bis district nominatej bim for Congress, and being supported ty both tbe Freesoilers and Democrats, be was elected Bis co no pt titer was Samuel W. Parker, who, in bis day, was one of the ablest Whig stumpers in tbe state. Two years after this he was a candidate for re-elec tion, his opponent being Mr. Parker, as before but tbe result of tbe campaign wbb different from tbe first one between him and tbat gentleman. Oliver P. Morton, then a resident of Wayne county, and a D mccrat of unquestioned orthodoxy, Imagined he saw in Mr. Julian a man who might be in the way of his own political advancement, and determined to deft at his election. Tbe Democrat 9 of tbe dis trict bad, with almost entire unanimity, voted for Mr. Julian in 1849, aud with tbeir votes he coald have been elect ed In 1851; but, for tear ot being left In tbe background if Mr. Julian was successful, Mr. Morton organized a reyolt In the Democratic psrty against blm, and thus secured his defeat. In 1852 Mr. Julian was nominated at Pittsburgh for the vice presidency on tbe ticket with Mr. Hale of New Hampshire. He made many speeches durirg this cam paign and added much to bis reputation, as an orator, by their delivery. In 1854 the Know Nothing party was organized, and for a time swept everything before It. Mr. Julian labored with all hia might against this prescriptive organization, and did much to throttle and kill It. With Horace Greeley and Wlliam H. Seward be succeeded In ' preventing it from swallowing up the Republican ptrty betöre that party had cast off its swaddling clothes. Hia opposition to Know Nothlogism plaosd him in the background for a while, tor tbe prescriptive doctrines ol tbat party bad permeated the Republican organization so generally that no one not In sympathy with its principles could t. pe tor political preferment from the latter party. . Io 1856 Mr. Julian took the stomp for Fremont and Dayton. His speeches in that campaign were tbe ablest and most effective n ade by any member of hia party, and will be ao remembered by those who heard tbem. Morton bad now become a Republican, and was canvassing tbe state as a candidate lor gover nor against the eloquent and brilliant Williard, but In trenchant larcaam and el

egint diction, he was as far behind Julian in 1S5Ö at he is in 1876.

In 1858 Mr. Julian was a candidate for Congress again, aud was defeated by Gen eral David Kilgore, of De'aware county In 1S60 he was again a candidate. He was then elected, aud reelected for fcur successive terms. He served his constituents In the Natioaal Congress for ten years continuous ally, being tor eight yeara of tbe time Chairman of the Committee of Pub lic Lands. Outside of his labors in the antl alavery cause, he is best known as a legislator by his advocacy of the Hoaia stead law. No man in tbe country, with probably the exception of Andrew Johnson, did so much to procure land for the lan less, and free homes fer those who would take tbem, as Mr. Julian. TbiB ia something the poor man of the country should remember in making np tbeir minds as to the proper weight and consideration to be given the speech which we publish to-day. In 1872 Mr. Julian went into the L'beral movement, and supported Horace Greeley with all the power of hia matchless eloquence. Since tbe termination or this campaign be has been llvlrg quie:ly at hia borne at Irvington, near this city, em aged, it is understood, In literary work. He now emerges irom his retirement, ard enters the fild as a champion of reform in our civil . service. That tbe ewcrd with which be smites the thieves who have been robbing cur government is as keen as the Damascus blade ofSaladiu is apparent to everyone who reads the speech we publish tc-day. In elegance of diction it excels any addiess made in the j resent campaign, and i worthy of the pen ol Addison or Steele. In incisive arguments and trenchant sarcasm it is equal to tbe best efforts of Burse or Grattan, and its inexorable logic reminds one of Webster and Calhoun. Such a speech from such a man will do much to drive from tbeir places tbe thieves and rob bers who are plundering the country In tbe name of loyalty, and when tbe glad day cornea which sets Tilden and Hendricks Installed at the national capital it should be remembered that an important factor in that grand achievement was the man who speaks to thousands tbis day through our col um dp. What Relief? Tbe condition of afftira throughout the country ia sad to contemplate. Tbat which msy be observed In oor own city 1b likewise true, in many instances to a greater extent, in all other cities. Business and dwelling houses in great numbers are eccp'y, manufacturing establishments are suspending. Public works are dead. Property is sbrinkine In value at a fearful rate. Laborers wander about tbe streets unemployed and begging for bread. Trade Is stagnant. Our business men are tumbling from day to dsy, deprived as they are, to a great extent, of a Southern market for their meats and manufactures Payment of debt has almost ceased, and colleat ions and foreclosure trials are earfolly multiplying, there being almost eleven hundred new cases for the Septem ber term of tbe Superior Court, and enough in the Circuit Court to swell the aggregate number to over twelve hundred. The cal endar of tbe courts In other cities exhibits the same measure ot distress. Ia the cjuutry, the fermer too feels the Bsme p nchlng depreesioo; the prices of bis produce so declining as to 111 compensate him lor tbe year's labor expended. Winter is approaching, during which the demand for labor will be lees and tbe expense ot living greater. Tbe poor must have more food, more clothing, uaoro bedding, more shel ter, more fuel. How are they to procure these, necessaries ? They are already looking with painful anxiety lor a solution cf this question. Sucn. in brief, is the actual condition ot things ; and tbe question is, how can it be made bttttr? How can it be prevented from growing wors j? The short aoswer to this question is, by tha renewal of bubineas wnich will re-employ 1 bor. All tbe elements of prosperity are fetill here tbe farms, the workshop, the people, the me chanical skill are still in tbe country out life and bus ness activity are gone all is stagnant; capital lies still; refuses to engage in enterprises and give employment to labor, and why? Because of uncertain ty banging over tbe financial policy of the government. Tbe business prosperity or adversity of the peopla depend?, to a-great extent, on the administration of tbe finances ot the country. Through this instru mentality the administration can stimulate prosperity or destroy, it can give relief. or bring distress upon the people Now, what do tbe Republicans propose to do to relieve the disiress tbat Is upon us and to avert further suffering? Do tbey propose to aid In the revlyal of business, the re-employment of labor in abort, the resto ration ol prosperity ? Tbey do not. The only measure they propose is one to angment distress. Tbat measure is tbe resumption of specie payment January 1, 1879. To accomplish this it w 11 be absolutely necessary to contract tbe present volume of paper money before tbat time, at least one-half. Such contraction will necessarily occasion still for ther decline In values, prolong stagnation of business, and Intensify distress. This the Republicans themselves are now forced to admit. But having adopted the meas ure in the interest of the bond-bolder, they determined to adhere to it, while confessing it ia against tbe interest ol the people. This is the financial issue referred to by Kilpatrick in his letter to Hayes in which he admits tbe Republican party most go to be wall, unless, tbey can buy up the poor voters with money on election day. Hence the Republican, party, in utter disregard of the Interest and welfare of the people, bay determined to carry

tbe election, if tosäib'e, by afapeodous

ft aud a iraud In the strictly legal sense of the word, tbat is, by false representations to the people, as to matters of fa?t ol which the lecders pro'ess to have fuperlcr inforrrat'on, and on whose representations tbeir followers reJy It is tbe fraud of the "bloody shirt." This ia tha df ad if sue of the war of 1S61. Tte people are to be persnsded tbat it Is cf more importance to tbeir welfare and harplness that they sV.uld continue to remember to bate r-outhern white men, and to weep for Southern negroes, than it is that they should have work whereby they migbt earn bread and clotning Ter tbe-r familiet. Tht-y sra told that, true it is, they will be pinched with hunger in tbe coming winter, that tbeir children may p?rih from cold and starvation, but tbat tbis will be a noble sacrifice In the cause of Republican effice-seekers and Southern negroes-, and will bring them exceedingly great reward In the world to come. Will tbe laborlrg pecp'e here be satisfied with a campaign on this l&sut? We can not think bo. On the ether band, what does the Democratic party propose as a measure of rliei? It proposes to repeal tbe resumption act; to postpone resumption of specie payment till it can take place without contraction oi tbe currency to any itjurlcus extent. Thh proposition being set'lsd as the rule of action in regard to the currency, business men will at once be able to make np tbeir minds what to do. They will go forward with confidence. Now, thsy dare not Invest ; tbey dare not purchase laud and start manufactories, because 11 tbe currency is to be contracted in order to resume specie payments, their investment in business will depreciate, property will still decline, manufactured articles will decline, business will be a latlure and a loss. But let the busimss man, the capitalist, know tbat tbe insane Idea ot speedy resumption Is discar ded, tbat tbe currency is cot to be contracted, tbt valuea are not to scrlnk, then he will bave confidence, business will revive, labor will be employed and paid, tbe poor man will be able to feed and clothe his family, cemfort will prevail again in tbe land, and tbe negro require do greater sacrifice in his behalf than wbitn men in like circumstances. Tbe Reunion or ib. Mvtbodifit Churches Tbe movement for tbe reunion of the Methodist Churches North and South is an event of more than ecclesiastical significance. In 1845, when the schism or separation took place, the event was Ick ked upon with alarm by wise statesmen. Henry Clay said it was tbe foreshadow of the disunion of the state, and be deeply deplored tbe ominous occurrence. Some time after this, one branch ot tne Presbyterian Church divided upon the slavery question, and finally, during tbe war, tbe Old School Presbyterian Church likewise separated, leaving but the two Eoiaoopal organizations, tbe Protestant Episcopal and Catholic Churches, with any unity of organization all over tbe conctry. Since the close ot the war re peated efforts bave fceea made in all these churches to effect a reunion, and tbey have failed-sirr ply because political prejudices and sertionaj pride have hindered. It was a sad illustration of tbe deleter! us nature ot partisan bitterness, that it should have so taken possession of the hearts of Christians whose doctrine is peace and good will, as to srver and rend and keep apart those of like ecclesiastical faith and polityThe reunion at this time ot this great and powerful church will accom p:ish perhaps as much In its consummation fcr peace and union, as tbe separation did to further the estrangement of the different Sfctlona politically There is an important s'ep In this proposed union tbat can net but bave a powerful influence upon the sentiment of tbe people toward each other in these different sections politically. Tbe action of tbe Republican patty in keeping wide cpao the breach so long after the war has ended, has wrought great evil to the Southland has been made tbe pretext for eustaiolr s that party In power, and enabling it to waste the resources of the nation and aorropt the peopje. Tbe union ot churaht s will be a very strong bond favorable to mutual understanding. It will doubtless be but a short time until tbe Presbyterian churches, north and south, will coalesce again and be one In organic union. This will produce an interchange of pastoral relations and restore mutual confidence and esteem. While, as tbe report of the Mettedist commission truly say,,lt nay not be expected tbat all will bave tbe same opinion on various political subjects, t.ecu&6 of tbe union, yei it will be promotiye of reepet and forbearance, which are steps in tl at direction. It will be a happy thought if it shall appear tbat tbe churches have brought about national reconeillatlao which be political parties bave not accomplished. Seaator Heston' Any. ' Tbe Journal of yesterday morning showed unm'stakable signs. that Mr, Ju liau'a vigorous fire on Saturday night bad taken effect. Of the masy misstatements contained in tbe article entitled "Julian' Record," we sha)l only xe'er to a few. Tbe statement that Mr. Jolian asked General Grant to appoint bis brother district judge for Indisna la utterly and absolutely na true. The revamped falsehood that Mi. Jolian turned against the Republican party In 1872 because be was defeated for the nomination for congressman at large Is equally false. Mr. Julian was urged by many ot the leading Republican politicians and newspapers to become a candidate, but as he bad made np bla mied not to be en tangled In any way with Grantlsra, and be lievlng tbat Grant's nomination waa ex ceedingly probable, It rot inevitable, be finally decided to forbid the use of hia

I came as a candidate: and theriav ruf-,

I , J ' WWW S'ate convention he sent a telegram from vasnmgton to Mr. Ftshback, ther editor of tbe Diily Journal, declining the use of his name as a candidate in the c mvenllon under any circumstances. Mr. Fkbback knows that the telegram ws sent, and he so stated In te Journal of next mcrain. a raferer.es to whrh will prpve the truth of what wa say. Tu ... iii jt s ie wea known to the Journal and yet it braz?ny -sets them at defiance ia the bepe of belog able to deceve Km. v 1jUs7 people. The Journal seems to find comfort in reiernng to the assault made on Julian in - the- fall of icr. Mr That assault was perlecily waLton and urjuatifiable, as was then shown by tne newspapers. The Jc urnal knows that tbe man wbo mada It k Kqv,, six or eight bullies, and tbat he, Julian. was buaaeniy stricken down by vloleoce under clrcarmtaocrs which r opporcunity 1 r eeli defer ce. If the Jourui wisnes rongct tbis battle over again we may as well remind it that tbe maa more guilty tban any other of Its parpetratlon was Senator Mot inn him caI t uVis counseled and aivised It, and was'tfen smarting under the reply which Mr. Julian had recently made to bis famous Richmond speech. Will tte Journal or Sana, tor Morton drty thi? Tilden s War Kecord. Two columns and a half of General Harrison's interminable Danville rpefch are devoted to what Is styled a review of Governor Tilden's war record, in which all the resources cf an ii genlons advocate are called into action to distort the facts ot history to tbe disadvantage ot a political opponent. It is wortbyofnof.ee tbat the greater pirt of this review is devoted to a period wholly antecedent to tbe war. Tbe actual record made by Tilden during tt e war itself affords few points which tbe most unscrupulous partisanship can twist Into a disapproval, of its ebjee'; and the declarations quoted by Gen. Harrison, seen in tbeir true light, appear as tbe earnest, patriotic efforts of a provident statesman to avert a calamity which be foresaw and deprecated, and thus form one o the moat creditable episodes In hia public career. The tacts of Gov. rilden's association with tha events of tbe war have been reiterated . time and again, but a hasty review of tbem now seems called fcr in answer to tae misrepresentation s of Harrison's speech. Ia tbe long conflict upon the slavery qaestion that preceded the outbreak of actual hostilities, Samuel J. Tilden belonged to tbe libera', progressive wing of tbe Northern Democracy, which recogn:"a?d and frankly discussed the evils of the institution, but shrank from transgressing' constitutional barriers to remedy tbem. In this attitude he appeared up to tbe actual clash of arms, oi, pitting violence, deprecating cot flict and urging conciliation. ; From tbe moment, however, of the first gun at Fcrt Sumter, Mr. Tilden Is founds among the most uncompromising advo-: rates of vigorous measures for tte suppression of the rebellion. Without In tha leat relaxing tbe ties tbat bound him to his party, be was still In fall sympathy and often in active ouosel witb tbe administration. In a le ter to tbe secretary of war, written Immediately after President Lincoln's first call for troops, he ad-' vised much more extensive preparations, ard . warned tbe admi&iatratlon that tbe struggle would take on far larger dimensions than was at that time believed. On a least two distinctly recorded occasions he was called to cols alt at ion with President Lincoln and gave him much valuable advice with reference to the racing of troop In hia own state. He was no lees active at borne. When Tammany Hall raised a regiment for the war, Mr. Tildin was a large contrituvir. Wbea tae Tnlrty-sev-enth New York regiment left for the scene '. of war, Mr. Tilden was one of a little com pany ot Democrats t j present it with a ' stand of color. The Tribune, which ia now opposing him, then said oi this occasion : i Thers was-some cere noony at tue present- ' tlon of th flag, and several' speeches were m.de Ua of the Speaker on ineoooaslon was Mr. Samuel J T l jen, who nad a stirring appeal to the offlreand men of tbe rcl-ment-asreech not excelled In jatrioMgra by any pub jo speaker danog tbe war of the- re bellion. Laier in the war, when . the acknowl edged montbpifce of the paity ccadeained the war at Chicago, we have tbe testimony ot Manton Marble that Mr. Tildau's voice was heard in opposition to the paa.ee plank in tbe platform, and tbat cf hi personal friend, Mr. Hewitt that ho privately and strenuously urged den. llfiClellan to nullify this plank by a clause in kis letter ot acceptance. This plain eXatenaent of fact,. whica bas been so of tea repeuted, should be a aufficisnt answer to tbe charge that Gov. Tilden opposed tbe war. It probably will not prevent tbe future appearance of the. accusation; oat it will at least convict . it&autho of slander and falsehood in ad vance. , Tbe ObaeqaUea T 2err. The funeral train bas born to . its last resting place the remains of the Hon. M. C Kerr. The brief public life that prom- . ised future preferment in places of higher trust and usefulness bas ended. Indiana baa lost in hia death one of - be? most honored statesmen a private citizen of worthy a public servant, honorable and faithful to his trust. Tbedea hof au ch a man Ja times like these should be mourned as a public calamity, and bla political career should be remembf red. Mr. Kerr bad been a iaithful public servant in various minor tfflces tbat be bad . bad filled, and wbea be entered Congress be took at ones a Uigb pcsitlen as a legislator. Considering tbe short time that