Category: Biographies
_Shortly before the death of the late Samuel J. Tilden, and in compliance with his wishes, a selection was made by our senior colleague from such of Mr. Tilden's public writings and speeches as were then conveniently accessible and seemed then responsive to a popular demand. T...
The logic of the situation presented by Mr. Wright's nomination for Governor in 1844 required that he should by his election save the Presidential ticket and then "succeed Presi...
6. Part 6"Still I have perhaps more fears than hopes. The administration is captured by the quasi-Van Buren men who went with us before Baltimore but deserted us there; who cannot risk t...
29. Part 29"I appeal to you, therefore, to attend the primary meeting which will choose delegates to your Assembly district or county convention, and to send to that convention your most d...
20. Part 20"The paper, it is generally known, became embarrassed by the entire loss of its large Southern circulation, consequent on the rebellion, which loss has been followed now by the...
18. Part 18"MY DEAR CASSIDY,--I have just put a letter in the post-office explaining why I am here instead of being in the cars on my way to Albany, and now I acknowledge the receipt of yo...
23. Part 23"In regard to leases for years or for lives, the convention should not interfere. It may, if it choose, declare that hereafter no leases for lives shall be given. The Constituti...
24. Part 24"On no other question can we be so unanimous among ourselves. On no other question can we draw so much from the other side and from the undetermined. It appeals peculiarly to th...
36. Part 36"In Louisiana the executive branch has for some time past been kept in place only by soldiers under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief of the United States armies. The judges...
34. Part 34"DEAR SIR,--Your telegram, kindly inviting me to be present at the meeting of the Democratic State committee to-day, was received. It was impracticable for me to attend, and I c...
13. Part 13"I left word at Dix's that I had named him for the Collectorship. I had some conversation with him about it the other day, and inferred from what he said he would not decline. O...
28. Part 28"With respect to myself, I cannot reconcile myself to the idea of being tied up for a series of years. I prefer freedom and a period of relaxation to any honors which involve pe...
17. Part 17"That construction accords with the true meaning of the words 'corporate powers,' which is powers essential or incident to the nature of the artificial being created by law--suc...
8. Part 8"If we had a discreet and energetic leader in Mexico, I think we might bring the war to a close. But the lieutenant-general has been slain, and with him I think dies all prospec...
11. Part 11"MY DEAR SIR,--Though I have heard of nothing calculated to excite alarm, yet I do not feel quite easy as to what may be the result of the delegate meeting on the 7th inst. As L...
3. Part 3"These observations, as applied to the two present parties of the country, would not, probably, be accepted without dissent; but they intimate a most important truth. This is th...
37. Part 37"I dare not think of the consequences that would follow a failure. You are grappling with subtlety, ingenuity, adepts, experts, dangerous, and most unscrupulous men whose life h...
10. Part 10"I resume my letter which has been in my portfolio unfinished for more than a week. A current of affairs suddenly struck me, and swept me on so incessantly that I have not befor...
31. Part 31"Since there is an elaborate attempt to misrepresent an act of my professional life, I have a right to say this--without the imputation of egotism; and I have a right to add tha...
33. Part 33The immense ascendency over the public opinion of the country acquired by Mr. Jefferson--the complete triumph of the party he formed and led, the acceptance at length by the who...
26. Part 26"MY DEAR TILDEN,--Your Milwaukee speech has done me much good--a thing not to be thought of if it were not that this good done to one obscure individual extends to the whole cou...
2. Part 2This was well illustrated in his defence, in 1856, of the title of Azariah C. Flagg to the office of comptroller of the city of New York, against the claim of John S. Giles. Fla...
35. Part 35"1st. Where there was no haste, and more important matters claimed the earlier attention. It is very likely I have not been altogether wise, as the world is largely made up of f...
14. Part 14"MY DEAR SIR,--Your last letter reached me just as I was hurrying from the city to fulfil a business engagement at Lebanon. I partly wrote an answer, while there, but left sudde...
4. Part 4"I am uncomfortably situated in many respects. I perfectly abhor this mode of life. The social slavery of the family to any scapegrace, man or woman, the latter worse, who may c...
38. Part 38"MY DEAR SIR,--Our determination here is to push the Ring suits to decision as rapidly as possible. Once we get fairly started everything will move with the utmost rapidity. But...
7. Part 7"My opinion is that our whole Assembly ticket will be elected. Col. Stevenson may be in danger, and if the current opinion were reliable would be, but I think he will succeed. A...
25. Part 25"MY DEAR TILDEN,--I send another missive from Frank by which you will see his hopes are revived. You asked me to keep you posted, and therefore I send these advices, as they com...
32. Part 32"MY DEAR TILDEN,--There is a rumor here that O'Conor is willing to accept the nomination of Blanton Duncan's Louisville convention. If you have any influence with him I pray you...
27. Part 27"I think there can be no doubt that all the grounds of the discrimination contemplated against Mr. Sage, as compared with the other persons charged with having received more tha...
12. Part 12"Asked the other day by a Hunker friend if I thought it prudent to take a man of Gen. Dix's class, I replied, most certainly to take one such. If past positions on the slavery q...
30. Part 30"An account, therefore, of the Tammany frauds and their occasion, of the struggle of Tammany to maintain itself after the discovery, and of the means by which it was overthrown,...
19. Part 19"Special directions have been given not to interfere with the condition of any person held to domestic service; and, in order that there may be no ground for mistake or pretext...
21. Part 21"Our construction is advancing well. We have sent up 400 additional men since Feb. 1. We still strain every nerve for completion June 1. None of our managers in the West fear th...
15. Part 15"GENTLEMEN,--If your note means that your clients withdraw from the proposition to allow us 1000 tons of rails, besides the 2470 bars, you already know what my answer must be. E...
16. Part 16"The 'Dry-Goods party,' as by general consent the fusionists have come to be designated, held what they called a 'Union meeting' last night at the Cooper Institute. They did not...
9. Part 9"'... And now to revert to the main question--the organization of the new Territories, and the allowance or disallowance of slavery therein--I have been confidently hoping for a...
22. Part 22N. Y. Stock Exchange, by R. L. Cutting, Prest. $5,000 Aspinwall, W. H. 1,000 Astor, W. B. 1,000 Brown, Jas. 1,000 Barney, D. N. 1,000 Bonner, Robt. 1,000 Chittenden, S. B. 1,000...
1. Part 1_Shortly before the death of the late Samuel J. Tilden, and in compliance with his wishes, a selection was made by our senior colleague from such of Mr. Tilden's public writings...
39. Part 39"How, it may be asked, can this desirable result be _easily_ attained? Evidently in no other way than by the government taking such steps and adopting such measures as will sure...