Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 2, 1876, Page 9

" not served thelr causo by 60 strongly putting- " fore the election, SHAMMY TILDEN. His Connection with Tam=- many Election= Frauds. The Defenso of Him by Hewitt and Cox Refuted by Til- den's Sworn Tes- timony. gilden’s Personal Explanation of é¢he Secret Circular,” and Mis Evidenco under Oath, at Variance. s Proof that Tildon Had Full Knowl- edge of the Famous Circu- lar Before It Was Published. Tilden as a Political Manager in 1868==~His Counsels with Tweed and Sweeney. The Deliberate Plan to Stufl’ Bal- lot-Boxes, of Which Til- den Was Cognizant. What the Great Frauds Were which Tilden Aided in z Planning. ‘ From Ou Oon Correspondent, WasawvoToy, D. C., Aug, 30.—There were great frauds in the Congressional elections in New York in 1868, Mr. Sumuel J. Tilden, now Democratie candidate for the Presidency, was then Chairttinn of the Democratic State Central Committee of New York, Those great frawds could not have been conunitted without the knowledge of sume members of thut Commit- tee, Jt hios been proved that they were alone made possible by the-active co-operation of somu members of that Chmmittee, and by the secret connfvance of others, It has leen charged that Samucl J. Tilden, if not him- self direetly responetble for these frauds, wau udslsed of them, and by his sflence consented to thelr existence. The Houso of Represento~ tives has recently quarreled an entire August pight over this watter,—Mr, Hewitt and Mr. Cox strongly protesting the funovence of Mr. Tilden of the whole business, while Mr. Kasson strongly charged it home to him, Mr. Tllden's defenders did protest too much. They have forth the plea of coufession and avoldance. They bave confessed to the astonnding charne- ter of the delibernte Democratic frauds fn that clection; they huve not eleared their leader of responsibility for those frauds, They sought to do this by reproducing n letter written, by Mr, Tilden in 1808, and published in the New York Erening Z'ogt, inwhich he denfed any knowl- edge of the exlstence of that famous clrenlar- letter, or of the election-frauds which it invited il preceded. What whl they say when they hall know that Mr, Tilden upon oath has sworn that e did know oy that letler before it was pub- lihed 7 » An ofticlal document of the House of Repre- tentatives could have told them this, I will en- deavor here brlelly to trace the conncction of Ar. Tilden with those frauds, as shown by his ownoath and this officlal record. and togive n rhort sketch of the enormity of tho frauds thumeelves. ‘The plea of confesslon and avold- ance resorted to by the Democratle leaders l- st remlers tinnecessary any characterlzation of the frauds. Thelr enormity is udmitted; the fact that they were committed by Democrats is reknowleged. TUE NEVELATIONS OF AN OLD REPORT. The repert upon the clectton-frauds in New York comprises two volumes, of 1,077 pnges. There are no sadder chapters on political cor- runtion in the history of Constitutionat Govern- ment than are coutained in those pages. The varration of politleal erime In those pages may well inuke one trewble for the future of free in- stitutious, It fs announced in Democratic journals that Mr. Tilden hos tuken charge In person of his wwn Presidential campafgn, and great expectations ure based upon his skill as u political manager. Thought- Tul persuns may obtain some suggestive views of “management " by o study of the cumpalgn of the New York Demoeratic Committee in 1808, of which the sume Samuel J. Tilden was Chalriman, If he could do, or suffer (o be done, wuch ncts as are described in this report, to what may lie not resort when the supreme prize of the Natlon is his stake? Thu climux in the history of this great fraud '8 the clrcular fdsucd by the Democratic State Committie Qct, 27, 1803, known as “the Becret Clreulur, ‘There {8 evidence to show that this circular was u part of the gigantie scheme for sarrylng the Democratie ticket In the State of New York by fraud; to deluy the cauvassing of the vote In the City of New York untfl the re- sultinthe countles of the State should Lo known, and theu make* up auy deticlency not Iuppll‘!\!d byl ,I'c‘)c(lllng and other fraudulent vot- 1, stutling H | g y o ltm!fi‘vnuys 2ol cull’:l;x:.:f(ll“‘«:k::w‘!’ax“' byateatidalent TILDLN'S BEUKET CIRGU) During the political ennvass of 1 Hull was Sceretary of the Demo Committee, with an offlce fu the of A, Oakey te State Samucl ol who dariug the War bl Lok nrrostt und u-lud y the mdlitary suthoritles ¢ for nink- ing fulze yotes under the soldiers’ voting Juw,» wus Seeretury of the main Committee. I medintely preceding the November electlon, o seeret olreulnr was printed and sent o he Churinan of_every County Democratic organi- zation {n the Btate, us fullows: [Privats and strictly confidential,] Toous oy THE DENOCKATIR BTATE COMITTEE, Oct, 27, 1608—y Deanl 8in: Pleweo ut once 1o communigate whtli sume rellafile pereon in three or lour principal towns and tn v L']I( of your county and rmlumt him (expennes dufy s il for thfs ond) to telegraph ta Williaim 3 ‘Tanunany Hall, ut e infiute of closng Dot waiting for the count, ~vuch person's vatlinato of the vole. Let tho telegraph to be os follows: **This town wiil shuw & Democratic galn (or loas) over Inet year of (number) "5 or s one, i6 autliclently coriain: ** Tl town'will glve u e~ publicun (or Demacratie) mnjority, of —.* Thers fo of course s Jmportant objeet th be al- Lined by a slimuliungons travemissdon nf the hour of clusiig the poliny but no longer walting.. Oppor- tunity cun be takerd of the usual hulf-honr il in telegrapliic cammunications over linew before e tuslresnits beyin to be declared, and bufore the Asaociated Press nbaorh the telegraph with returny aud iuterfere with individunl mewuges; und gice orders 0 watch carefully e count, » sanveL J, Tioey, Chalrman, The concluding words {v {lullcs werg written to g2l particular nttention snd in it emphatic; Bere wus, of course, * an lmportant olyect to be allained."’ 4 QAKEY HALL'S ADYICE AT A SUNDAY MEETING 5 OF DEMOCHATIC CANVASSERS, Some facts fn conucction with this may be @ateria). " Mr. Hall testifica ** that tho practice at former el nunlulccuuunlurunvuulnf the Electorul Yole wus shuply to count each ticket us a whole, \';lumu'. seading the name of each Elector" llldnn the 28th_ of October, a vireular was fs- buu from the “ Rooms of the Tammuny 1lall uuneml Commtttee,” signed by John Fox, vorge A, Purser, and A. OQukey Hall, to the Demagrutic assers of thu city, requesting them (o meet ut Twmuiany Hall on ' Sunday bes At thils meeting M vised the Democrutic canvaseers to Ul the names of Electors,'—that s, to owr the name of every Elector o every tick- 3 e says, ' One bls objects Wy to fiulong the count us fur 88 possible,” Filk syeEcs of 17, The effect of this theu was, that, In answer to Lo irlrate circulur, Famuany Hall % would get ¢ Yate from the country (counties, by Lele- £rpb) befort they couldget the vule of the 0 " o'clock the polls closing at ‘0 minutes before 6 p. " Aunother effcct of this would he that it would enable the tioo canvasers at each poil- iy place, wheve a conapiracy was arranged for the purpuse, to change ltopublican tickele for “Demo- erativy or stuff "the Lallot-boxes, adid Llemocratic ticketa, and have thens connted Geeotdingly. The Instructions for delay bnd the desired ef- feet, ‘Fhe Democratie eanvassers very general- Iy followed thelr fnatructions. ' More than H00% telegrns came to Tammuny Hall in an- swer to the cireular, showing how well the pro- ramme was arranged, unlerstood, and carrled nto cffect, By about hinlf-past 8 o’clock p. m. on the eyening of the etection, * about one-third of tho Btate hud been heard from.* The returns of the different wards of the clity are sent by tolegraph to *the Headquarters of the Polfee Departinent, 300 Mufberry street ;! and “the Clerk of the Superintendent of the Metropolitan Polive Depurtinent testifles that Hthe total Presidentiul canvass [of the city] wan not_ascertalned until nearly-1 or 2 o'clock of the nlght after the clectlon; and, though some of the wards were returned carller, Mr, Hall himsell says the returns were “almost three hours later than uaual,! In some of the districts, wherethe Democratle canvussers conunenced the cauvass i tho un- usual mode advised chJ Tanmany Hall, this method was abandoned after the canvass had rogresaed, when privale advlces communlealed o such canvassers seems to have lod to a sudden change of pitrpusc and practice. \th&lmr they were advised that the purpose of the deluy had been accomplished, may be inferred. With this private udvice all Tegal” scruples us to the mode of canvaesing at ouce disappuared, The Dewocratic varty, witlout any frauda- 1ent votes, had o largo majority in thie City of New York. ‘Thefr purpose, therefore, was fo carry the State, Frauds were planned on u scale commensurate with the object, und execnted so ua to accomplish it, and this furnishes evidence of thetr extent, ~ 1t 1s impossible that those enguged in frauds B0 numerous, wide-svreud, and ex- Lensive, would fall to perfect arrangements to imake thelr work cfTectual. THE SBECHET CIRCULAR. A. Oakey Hall, the author of the secret clr- cuinr, was a \itncss before the Committce. He could not fal to know that it had been charged that * the vote In New York was largely Inex- cess of the legal voters;” yvet, on tho stand us o yritness, he mude no denial of* this, nor did lie aver thit the secret circular had no purpose on the part of any one to sceure such a result. e states oiic of its objects thus: The purposc was to get local eatimates from our Democratlc friends with which to compare and to check the roturns when they camefn. . , . "I'he object was toget what would secm fo be su- perficlal guess-work, butwhich was really sn ap- proximale atatcment. By law the Presidentlal Elcctoral vote must be counted first. Adopting the usual mode of counting, this could be duns I a very brief llmr." for Mr. Hall says, *‘after closing the polls™ an***hour usually clapses when the re- sults are beginning to be known_ everywhere,” According to Mr. Hall, then, the object was to find out now. well the interlor Deniocrats could guess, e wanted thelr “local catimatcs with which to compare and to check the returns when they came fu.* ‘Three hundred and forty Deinocratfc cauvassers were nulcmli‘l,y ssscinbled on the Sabbath, and fustructed delsy the count 3 “the Chalrman of every count Demoeratie organization of the State" wos ad- dressed, and 200 telegrams reccived to test the puessing eapacities of ‘rural Democrats, for the nuocent cdification of the urban leaders of ‘Tammany all, focluding A, Oakey Iall. Why this could not buve been as well ace complished without the scercey enjoined by this cireular does not appear, But theu there wus *‘another object," Mr, Hall says: Another ebject of this clrcular was to induco gentlemen upon our slde to apply in puch numbers nd s frequently o the lclv.-iruph-ufllwl of the Stute that (he operators would know Uial returns of soma kind were expected over the wires, for 1 be- Have that Tinestonthi of tho telegraph-operators in this Btate arc Republicans, From this it would seem that all over New York State, outside of its enlightened Coms merclal Metropolis, the Republicun telegraph- operators, on the evening of an clection at which a Presideut, Governor, Members of Con- gress, Henators, Members of é sembly, and other offfcers were vaoted for, not *‘know that returns of " somne kind were expeeted over tho wires.”” But, happlly for New York City. the talent of {ts high ofticers was eaual to the emergency, The Sunday mecting of cunvassers, the secret cireular to the Dewmocratie Chairmen, {nduced st gentlemen upon tho Demovratic sidoto apply in such numbers and so frequently to the tele- graph-offices of the State that tlie operators * dic find out * that returns of sume kind were expected.”? {r. Hall enys the circulor wos headed *Strict- | 1y Confidential ™ because they * did not want to attract partieular [public] attention to it.” Yet how this would enuble operutora to know thut “ratumns of soine kind ' were expected,” s not pereefved. This mode of reachiug the Repnbif- can operators was ratber indircet. The work might bave been accomplished, perhaps, i the Buperintendents of telegraph-lines had “sent o general dispateh giving notice ** that returns of some kind aro expected” ] These objects atone would searcely scem to Justify so great an expenditurs of time, talents, and other resources, i relation Lo the secret creulur. . ""I'ic examnination of Mr. Hall procecds: Q.—Your object, then, was to got thoreturns from the country before they got the roturos from New York? A.—No our object wan to prevent thelr getting the Now York vote; it was nothing to us to get their vote, cxcept an we opencd the wires and made them send their vote, *Nothing tv us to get thejr vote." Then why was the secrot elreulur sent! It says there was un imporlant object Lo be nttained by it. But Mr. all proceeded to testity: ‘There wan, of coursc, an fmportant obfect to bo attained in the words written by me in'the manu. scriptafter the receipt of tie circular, becauso I wanted to cull particulsr attention of partles into whose Lands this might fall throngh the post, aud 1o mok 1t emphatic. ‘What thut * inprtantobject ' was he does not dlseluse, beyond what is stated. But, whatever the “dmportant ubject " was, 1t seemed neves. gury, in order to accomplish it, that the cou- dition_of the vote in the Inferior of the State should be hnmedlately known fn the city, for he suys, in ungwer to the question: Q.—Iiut the moment you commenced recelying telegrama in responee to that ciicular, you thon degired that they should kuow iL? ‘A.—Certalnly, And the fmportance of the object brought 200 telgsrams, which were rend ps svon as received {ru tho desk at 'l‘nmmuu?' Hall, “and then at the Manhattun Club, to splendid” congregutions of mourners,” 1t is o significant fact that Samuel North did not volunteer to enlizhten the Committee, nor did ““E one of the Committes or others deem it advisable ta call bint. z PROOY OF TILDEN'S KNOWLEDGB'OF TIE CIN- CULAR, DI Samuel J. Tilden know of the existence of that cireulur, sigued by hinself, befove t was sent out! DId he have sy intimat{on 8s to its . contentsi If hie did, did he do anything to pre- vent the perpetration of the traud which that clreular contemplated before the fraud ftself was actually comuritted! Did ho seek to clear his own skirts, aud to muke u scupegont of othurs, when lie had sulllefent prior knowledgo to have prevented ngreat fraud which wis sbout to bo committed in Ins knowledge und with his ‘own natne! Mr. Cox, tho other day, caused to be read in the Touse ncard published by Mr, Tilden, over his slenature, in the New” York Lvenlng Post of Nov. 4, 1805, in which he post- tively denfed that he had hud nn{ Inowledpe of the clreular before he suw it published, and pro- vounced it.a forgesy, — TO TIE RECORD, Mr, Tilden kuew better, i M. Cox did not. Mr. deu in his sworn testimonys swenrs that hodid " hiave knowledge of the cireules, betors Do suw It published.” Fhat thers iy be no churl;e ol mfsguotation, Mr, Tildeu's own worls shall foltow, Thy examination, it wiil_be seen, was conducted by the late Speaker Keer, who wus & meimber of the Investigating Commitiee. Mr, Tilden was called at thd instance of Mr, Kerr, and thereferences to the questiona discloso a very good understwiding between the exam- iner “and the witness, ) Prebin Lestimony: nesse The following is the TILDEN'S RN TESTIMONY. ® Youw, Wedn Doc, 30, 1508, ~Bamuel* gi Trdmnwum und exaiiined " (at thy instanco of r. Kerr). By Mre. Kerr: Question—State o the Commit. teo Wwhat relations you bore duriug the Jast political campniyn to the polltical parties fu 1hls State, Answer— woa Chalriau of the Democratic Stute Computtee. ., — 100! this clrcular apnexed to the teatimos ny € dobn I, Hoffnan, purperting 1o bo lesued by you, und state to the Counnjttes whether you wors il author of 3t or net. A= was not. Q. =10 you know peréonaily whoynn the author A.—~1donot, . —Stato whether yol, as Chialrman uf the Dem. ocratie Btute Central Committee, distributed yhis circulanby the walls, yourwelf, or procured it (0 be e not, 1 d1d not know of its belog donc, A1 0id not, and §did pot uuthorize it Lo b doue. Q.—Do you kuow unybody who did ey IA —1 db not, except us 8 watter of mere sar- wie 1}.—Do you kuow whether Alr, Tweud did it or nuty A.—Idonot. I willstate what [ do know of {t. The priticips] Cosunittee-room of tho Demozratic Htate Committes wus ut Ny, 47 Park Row, where Cul, Buniuel North was in oticial charge, ‘Thero wusalse, forasbort time prior 10 the ulection, » sovim takey fu the Metropolituu Hotel by Mr Sweeney, & member of the Cumuiios, Who alviwd ‘CHICAGO TRIBUN me afterworda that he had taken It, and T an. sented 10 T went In there uecasonally, generally & [ Weat up-town on my ro win from my office. [t authorized any cne ot elth anywhera else, G dnene ci nazne, b i al distnste for fells privats culam, becasthe ] never knew of any pnnted cieeglar that did not fnnediately become” putdic, I have hd too mueh experfenco (nnach things ever o miark circilary In thnlvu{ pretentinus way, tnl T wanted to fneure their heing published” withont unncceesnry delay. A doy or Lwo beford the elec- tion, 1wan in thg Committee.room at the Metro- litan Hlota), and 1 thien understood thal a circu- ar had Desn irsued Mklnt{ fol tly election-ro- turne, It lind been lenued’ aome time proviousiy; by whoni 1 do not know; but f understnod ita pur- POre Srous somedody. 7 sdii on a tuble of ahelf some cireulors signed with my name, but 1 dld not read them, for ‘1 waderslond their contents. 1 presume they were the same cireular, | never saw or read 1t untll T read §4 §n the public prints, What was the stze of the pile of clrenlars ) anwy A.—Vertinps an Inch or anlnch-and-a-haif thick. That was fust before the election, snd somwe of thewm had lieen used. (). —State If It way & mattor of common notariety at the Democratic Commlittee-rooms, and among the leaders of e Detnocratle purlf. that auch cire culars had been fesued and gencrally distributed? A1t war nut. 4. ~Wus the matter kpoken of nsa fuct among Aowme of those hoving charge of affalr at the Coms mittee-roomyy 3 A, never heard it spoken of fn any other wa: except an I mentloned, 1p tu the time of 1ts pub cation In the newepapers, I ouzht toadd, pe hups, that the night of tha election | was in t Manliattan Club, a Demovestic club; and that the answers te these circulars, some of them addrersed to me, rome to Mr, T'weed, were read during tho even| “F p mectings ut Tammany Hall and mectingy ut thd'club; aud, #0 fur us 1 Kiow or can judee, the unswers were made public as fast as they arrived, . —¥From how many cautics were answers re- cejved tint evening? A.—I cunnol sy, because they were npened gen« erally without my eeelng them: | should think not from most of the counties. They were gencratly received and opened in the public meéung, and were read publicly In the Manbaitan Club, snd in the hall aud parfor. Q.—Were they recelved from nearly half tho counties? Y A.—That would be little more than pucss-work on iny part. 1do not kuuw that1 opencd any of them lf‘n} . Q.—1lave you the means of knowing to what ex- tent answers wers recelved next morning? A.—1 bave not. 1 do notthink much attention was paid to unsirers after that evening, because the newepapers got abeod of then next morning, HoUT OF ILIS OWN MOUTIL,Y BTC, Mr. Tilden swears tha he did not know who wrote the eirculara: yet it is dillicult to helteve thatiis relutions wth A. Oakey Hubl were not of such a character that it would have been finpos- sible for Hall to have writteu the clrcular with- out the knowledge of "Uliden, Tilden, ut all cyents, does not charge Hull with haviug forged bls name. ‘Tweed and Sweeney appear here in suspiclous qulnmy 10 Tilden, swucne]y consulte with Pilden, reports to him, aud Tildeu approves his actions, Tilden's relations with Tweed were so fnti- mate that the confidentiul Democrats through- out the State to whom the secret cireular waa addressed veturned their rc;:llca, indifferently, 1o Namuel J, Tilden or to Wilinm M. Tweed, Itisns plain asa pike-statf from this testi- mony that Tilden knew the contents of this circtilar before it wos published, His Qenfal to the Evening Losty in 1803, reproquced in the Housoe this month by &, 8, Cvf‘ aftertelegraphie “conference with Tild as Cox hijnself declured, fs an unmanly quibble. 1t is a sublerfuge cer- tainly unworthy of a Presidential aspirant 1t betrays a desfre to evade something, Mr., fil- den fu his testhnony only denles that he read the cireular {n the form in widch It wus printed, before ft was published; but he distinetly swears that he did understaud that such u cireulur existed before the clection, and before it wus published; that hesaw some of them on u tuble or shelf, slgned toith Misown narnie; il that lie *understood their contents.” Yet Mr. Tiiden, although he solemnly nvers over his Bible, on Dee. 30, 1863, that he* hasa i)rujudlne generally for seeing what hla name Is signed 10, and lus o “particular distaste for “con- fidentful and private circulars,” nevertheless, upon seelog, before the election and hefore It was published, thls pecullur * confidentinl and private clreular,” “slgned by himself,” which ie “had wover read,” did not lasten to discover the author of it, did not deuounce it aa o forzery, did not ask that it should be suppressed ala not seck to read it even, although he © understood lts contents,” but kept on chatting with Tweed, Sweeney, and Maun, tho forger of soldiers' votes, in the Committee-room from which thls cireulur wus fseucd. It will trouble most men to reconciic Tlden's relation to this circular, as detaited in his own sworn testimouy, with the defense which biy followers ure now making for him. | Sunset Cox cannot lle Tilden's mznsturc off that cfreudar, Therc is a better withess than Sunset, Thut witness Is ‘liden himself, who knew what the cireular was, sawr it, if he did not. rend it, beforo 4t wus published, 'knew that his numa was signed to it, and did not then ile- uouuce it as u forgery. e publie, If compelled to choose Detween' the eworn testimony of Samuel J. Tilden, private eltizen, und Samuel J. Tilden, Prcaldc.}ul al asphrant, “mavagiug bis own campaign,” will not long hesitate, The will appeal to the recard, und believe My, Til- den's onth before they will aecept the special jeading of hia ambitlon, It s not o comfort- ng retlection that such o cholee seeis to have been made necessary. WIUAT TILE GREAT TAMMANY FRAUDS WENZ. Enough has been cited from this report to show what knowledpe §amuel J, Tilden had of the infamous seceret circular which was the cli- max of the series of ingenfous measures resart- cd to to attaln thess fraudulent ends, ‘That these frauds were cominitted, even the defend- ers of Mr. Tilden hove adinitted. A nearer look nu?' now he taken fnto tho frauds_themsclves, for which the Demorratic Btate Committee, of which Tilden wus Chalr- man, must be hield mafuly responsible. The Congressionnl Comnitteo waa charged with Investigating the fruuds alleged to have ocenrred in the City und State.of D York, af- fecting the Congresslonal clections, and_ the election of Electors for Prestdent and Viee- President, n 1508, The Stath of New York has been prolifie tn clection frands nt various times; while Loulsi- una, Maryland, snd other States have presented uny phitses of the same evils, B But, uppalifng sud startling as theso have been it vur past history, they are all surpussed In some respects by those perpetrated fu the general election in thie State, und especlally in llfis{}“y, of New York, o the 3d of Noveuiber, Theso frauds were the result of a systematic plun of gigantle proportions, stealthily vmur- ranged and boldly executed, not merel f by bands of degraded desperados, bub with the dircet sanction, upproval, or uid of many promi- nent offfviala and atizens of New Yook, “with te ahirewdly-conccalel counivanse of others, und al- most without au eflort to disconrsge or prevent. thew by any of those In whose interest and polit- feal pirty-assoviatlons they were suceessfully executed, who could uot fall to have cognizance uf them, and whose duty it wus to expose, de- feat, and punish them. They were nfded by an finmense, carrupt, and corrupting officiul patronage and power, which not unly encouraged, but shiclded und_proteet- ed, thepullty prinelpals and their slders and abettors, Theso frauds ure g0 varied in character that y_known ceimo ugatust They winistration of fustice; disp defeated the execution of the Juws; subverted for the time befuie in New York Ktute the es- sentinl principles of popular government; rob- bed the |1uu|‘nu of that great Btote of their rightful cholcs of Electors of Prestdent and Vice-Presivent, of o Governor, wnd other of- 185 disgraced the moat |N)Y|llu\lx_§ dty of the fon; encouraged the cnemles of Républican Government here and everywhere to derlde our stitutions us o faflure; and endungered the peace of the Hepublic by ap sttempt to defeat e willof tbé puopls iu - the choiee of thelr rulers, ., ‘Flie ovldence tokien by the Committes furnish the.proof of all these allefutions. Among the most prominent of the frauds commiteed {0 the futerest of the Democratis party fn the Clty and State of New Yorl {n con- ::fimuu with the election in November, 1803, are (V-1 H 1. Many thousands of aliens fraudulently procured’or wers furnlshed with certiticates ot nuturallzation illegully or froudulently fssued, LY mieuns of which they wore enabled to pegls- ter as voters and voted i violation of Yaw, 2, Muny hundreds of certitleates of nuturall- zation were granted fu the numes of tictitious persony, to bu used by natlve-burn und nuturat- 1zed citizens and allons {n fulsely reglstering us voters, st tq enable them Lo vote muny tues at the clection. » = 4. Many hundreds of persons voted {n New York City from two tu forty times or more, under assumed or tletitions names, fraugdu- lently reglstuged for the purpose. 4. Extensive fruuds werc cummitted fu cu yosstog tlckets, and uames o€ volers were en- tered on the poll-lists, und Democratlg tickets counted os i ‘voters m])rv-cullmi.lln:m yoted, when ho such persons voted ut il 0_svcomplish these frauds, gross neglact o= b3 ;!luy and disregard of law so great us to evincen erfminad p&lrponu prevalled n sunte of o ths Caurts, whil ers and Democratle parti- suns of ulmost rudy, cither by ofileiul fn- tlucnee or otherwise, alded, sanctloved, or kuew of und falled to prevent themw. ‘The samoin- tluences whielded the perpetrators fu uearly all cuged frou detoction s urrest; and, whon ar- D 2SATURDAY.* SEPTEMBER 2, 1876—-TWELVE "PAGES rested, they have, through the agency of judi- cinl officers and othiers charged with tho duiy of proseention, évaded all punishment, 6. Throueh these azencles, the Demaocratic Electors ot Prestdentond Viee-Prestlent and the Demorratic eamifdnte for Governor of the State uf New York ently elected, - : N PRAUDL The frauds In natnrailzation were stunendous. ‘The number of applications was four times the averngo of previons years, and two and a half times 7rrm ¢r than the largest number in any preced nz‘ycnr and that while tho War had ;irunly reduced the alien population of the city. Judga” McCann in one day naturallzed U535 per- BWIS. BEN NATURALIZED BACH DAY, pigt nn other evidence to statnp with infumy, [raud, and illegality a portion of these nuturalizations, the number fssucd by & singlo Judge in ose day would be quite sufficlent, In 1841 a Judee in” Loulslaun was impeached and remuoved from office for malfeasance: In granting certllicates of naturaltzation. The Select Come- mittee of the House of Representatives luvestis srating the charzes In o report soys: ** It further appears that nearly 40 of these certifleates were tsstied in oue duy.” It seems to your Commnittee :innns'n'lblu that” this could buve been Jegally une. But this tmpossibility is greatly fncreased when the number reaches 955, —n nuinber fucon- aistent with cither honesty of purposs or legulity i praciice. : EXTUNUIVE PREPARATIONS. Although fn every county of New York thern f3a County Court In perinmuent sessiun, au- thorized to natumlize oifens, yet, for some rea- »On, many naturalications for'various countics were effected in the Courts of New York City. ‘The Supreme Churt tor the tirat tine in ita his- tory engaged i the work, Notwithstanding the fuct that the wnnual average number of naturallzations in the cty, in uwll the State Courts, wns only 0,207, yet thiere was printed by the New York Printing Compuny, un the order of the Clurks of these two Courts, or thefr Deputics, between Hept. 16 and Oct, 83 105,/ Dlank upplications for and 69,000 certificates of naturnlization; of which there were for the Supreme Court, from Sept, ¥ to Oct. 22, 75,000 blank opplications and 80,000 certificates of nuturallzation, und for the Superior Court 80,000 applications and 30,000 certificates; showing a purpose to lssue, if re- qulred, 69,000 certificates, ‘These were not nll procured at once, but ot different days, ordered frow time to tine,—in the Supreme Court 10, 000 certificates belng procured ws Inte ns Oct, X, ;xlld in the Superlor Court 30,000 us late as Uct, 5, But this_does not seem to have supplied the demand, Nuturalization Commnlttees and of- fices cetabliehed under the control of "l'ammany Iall were suppled with “several thousand ™ naturalization blanks to be used in the Courts, which were printed for these vilices. ‘The fees of the Clerks of Courts on the ap- plcations which passed through these offices were arrunged by *red tickets,” to be subsc- quently paid by Tammuny Hall, of which over 40,000 Were furiiehied to the Committee, These preparatfons for extensive naturaliza- tion ure fnconstsicut with any legitimute pur- pose. For the Supreme Court, which never natural- {zed hefore Oct. 6, up 1o that day 45,000 blsnk applications und 14,000 certifleales were pro- cared: and, nitbough this is nearty 4,000 more than the records show to have been Issued, yet 40,060 ndditional blauk upplicatfons and 25,000 addittons] blunk certiticates were procured, 10,- 000 of which were within three days of the tlme the work of nnturalization closed, All thls tmuat have had some purpose, and this purpose was so well understood that certificates of nuturalization In large numbers were jssucd for ulfens residing in otbier counties who never appeared in Court. TO PEUSONS WITHOUT REQUEST, In addition to thie, there fs o large clase of frauduent certitieates tssued to aliens who not only never appeared in Court, but_who unever ed that application ehould be made for thern, ey were left ut louscs, stores, und other places, or soll or given away., Individual in- SLAILCS NFC HUMCEOla. CENTIFICATES OX FICTITIOUS NAMES, TO BE USED BY ' REFEATENS. The evidence dlscloses the fact that certifi- cates of nataral{zation were procured from the Supreme Court to fletitlous names, and Jdellv- cred toutivns and citizens, to enable them to reglster und vote ua * repeuters.”? % WIAT THE FRAUDS WERE. Among the frauds practiced under the naturalization Inws were: ™ Zhe yalse personations of appiicants Jor naturalization’; perjury of' wit- nesses undey veal and assumed_names; the fabrica- tion of applicatlons for waturalization'and oalhs in aupport of theta, with nawmes of applicants and wit- nesses forgeds the pranting of eertificates of naturatlzation in Jlclitious names, and on quplica- tions regular In furtn, but without the; presence of any applicants, and fo persons not entitled to then. 110W TO ACCOMPLISS THESE, To accomplish these {t Is necessury to secure the uctive co-operation of some of the Courts, or thelr passive wequicscence, or negligence 80 rross as to ralse nu {rresistible presuniption of raudulent participation, HOW TO PREVENT THEM. These frauds could not escape the knowledge of the Courts, and_might Luve been prevented by the honest exercise uf adequate care, serutf- ny, und deliberation. To prevent this from be- fng discovered, reporters and spectutors were driven from the Supreme Court, Judgze McCunn, however, says he can examine tuo twltnesses ln a minute! and the evidence shows that his pructive was often fu excess of even Uit NATUKALIZATION FUAUDS AIDED BY NATURAL- 1ZING 'IN 0ANO8," That appplieants for noturalization, or those prefessinic to represent them with thelr witness- €8, Were sworn in groups, sometlines lurger and sometimes sinutler, ond without uny separate exumiuatlon of cach witness, fu the Supreme Court, net merely oceastonally but habitually,ls proved beyomd contraversy. OTNCK FRAULS AIDED, “The effect of this tnude of procedure in these Courts was to encourage and aid the operations n falsely personating appli- 33 in making perjury success- by the “professioual” “witnesses who #wartied futhese Courts; fn procuring eertfli- eutes to persons who never appenred (n Court; and otherwise rendering the whole business tho most diggraceful mockery aud fraud ever pers petrated ‘in relation to " naturalization fn th Cotris af the United Stutes. ‘This evidence, taken in conneetlon with the fuct thut certiticates from the Court are found in varlous countics, sent fo ;:nrua 1who sever ap- peared tn Court (o procure them, and with the evidence of numerous other frauds, can luave hut Hitle doubt s 1o what has been done with the 27,003 blank certltieates unaccounted for, THE NUMBER OP“FRAUDULENT CCRTIFIUATES. In view of the evidence, it is not too much to Auy 0o rellance can be placed on the records amd tlics of these Courts to declare the actual num- her of certitientes of uaturalization granted. "Tlie uctual nunber of fllegal, fruudulent, und tletitfous naturalizatfons never can be known, but, Including thuse sent from New York City over the State Lo persons never sppearing in Canrt, 1t is probably sufe to say that fraudulent certiticates were fssued from these two Courts atong a8 follows: Fruudulent minor sliown ubove. 0,050 Higheel nunber Lion shice 185 18,400 Nuurber ns repo e Difference estimnted fraudulent. ..., 4,010 Of the 27,008 missing blank certhil cates fu the Supreme Court, it would doubtless be eafe to nvaunie on the eV u that there b been used, In the ntles of U Monroe, Weatchwster, lensealier, Putnam. 0, und Orange, eotimating what 27,008 Is probaule frous what bt proved. 5,000 Av the evidence shows w wide-apr cou;rlfllt)} it Is salegto estimaty for utho poriions of thdState. s oo -van 5,000 s a total of ot less,and probably anore, than, e . B HEPEATING. I the Committeee hud devoted the whole time from thelr uppu(ul}nuut 10 the closs of that Congress, it woulld Mot huve besn possible 1o ascertafn or Lo tuko testhinony to prose the numnber uf persons who voted more than once In each of Chese 40 districts, i ull of which there WErs cast ut lln&l’r«:sldumul election in Novem- ber, 1863, 150,080 votes, n nwnber nearly us great s all the votes cust in six of the Statos of the Union, and larger than the vote of any one of twenty-oue of Lhe States cast at the ssmo election,” Al that could bs done was to prove, as the evidence dues, that an orzanized system was perfected and carrjed into effect, by ‘mem- bevs of the Democeratle party, to register many llmunxuh of names, tictitions or assumed, and then to vote on thens by hundreds of persous votlug from twoto forty times cach for the Damotratie candidates. * Headquarters” were estublished in different Tocalitivs of the clty, und books mads with du- phicate st of naines, opposlte 1o each of which were pluced u number wid strect w8 ureshlence. With ull the concenlment which cuuning could invent, or perjury sceure, o bribery purchiuse, or the Tear of puntshment luspive, oF s dre; of violence from bands of consplrutors snd Demoeratlo desperadous could coptand, or the blandishments of wpre accomplished kuaves vould entice, or the hope of ofiles could hn," or rof tho loss of place could bring, ul | of which would natural; 3 cunspire to throw ybstu- cles in the way of ur defeat the Juvestigation of the Comnittee, it 18 by no means possible that the extent of thess fruuds hus been rovealed even {n uny vno ward ; but this may be -[;vruxl- muted from the pruu(' us to clection districts in varlous purts of the city, uud Ly statistical tables showing the voting populatiun at previ- ous perjods, with the ayerage incrcase fn thoss werlads, from which the actual votlug popsa- fon of 1418 may bE computed with reasonable coralnty, Thes frands nre ao systematle in New York that the operation §sealled @ repeats i, and thos gond I b are ealled e peaters.?” T tice of Y repeating con- eists of proofs First—That pames of persons were registered from houses of given numbers and strects, on which the poll-lists shows votes to have been given, though nopersons of those names hadany such residenco or existence anywhere. Seeond—That certificates of naturalization {n great numbers to names and fictitfous persons were distributed to enable the work of repeate Ingz to be perfected. Third—That gangs of men wers actually en- faged fn the business, as shown by witnesses who saw them and their repeating hooka, Lourth—Or the disclosures inade by the re- peaters themselves: nndg Fifth—01 statistical tables demonstrating that” the vote of 1363 was far in excess of the vutinz populstion. No Denocratic official, officer of juatice, or pol- itlcian took any measuves {o defeat or prevent dhese Jraude; but they did take measures to aid them, and fo olstruct the purposes of those who atlempted {n vain to defeal them, e o These frauds are so monstrous in character and_extent that they could not have been the work of a few,or of many frresponsible Individu- als. 7t oar the work: of the Demaeratic party. 1n thelr purpose and modes of executfon’ they show n systematic plan, devired by contenlling ninds, for the purpose of carrying the eection tn the State, The plans were on a seale compre- henslve cuough to accomplish the purposy de- signed. HIOW CHALLENGING WAS PREVENTED—TERRON- 1B AN YJOLLRCE. By sotne means many of the Inspectors of “”’i's" y and Elcctfon were appointed foe duty n districts where they did ot reside, and so could not have personal knowledge of voters. Chullengring illegal voters was g0 far prevent- ed by terrorisia and violenee that Jt was of rare oceurrence clther at the registry or on the day of the eleetion, and in mnn( districts no chafl- lenges were made. It would be Impracticable here to deseribe fully the means resurted to to prevent challenges, hut they are abundantly ghown in the evidence, The 2,000 deputies of Sheriff O'Brien were ‘“ordered Lo arrest uny one who futerfered with the voting.! Cullenglng wus tos great extent prevented by the advice given, aod followed, that the holder of u certilicate of naturalization present- Ing it could not be questinned usto bis Fight un- der it to reglster and vote, THEMONEY QUESTION. AN ARGUMENT' AGAINST SILVER. . To the Editor of The T'riuune, Cirtcago, Aug. 80.—Your atrong condemna- tion ot my conclusions ua to the “relative value of gold and silver,” derived from the percentuges of compurative production, inauces me to make another statemnent beariug on the future of sil- very and, for that purpose, borrow your table of the world's stack of gold and silver coln, and, working out the comparative percentages of in- crease fn volume during the periods of time given thereln, make it the basls of my reply to your critivisin, the pointedness of which entities me to the privilege of another hearing, and I trust you wiil not refusc {t, The world’s stock of gold and silver cBin was cstimated to be fn— TABLE No. 1. 1700—81, 4455, 000, 000, 16500—§1,U87.000,000—103¢ per cent increase, cyuai to - L3of 1er ccut per agnuin. 1848—22, 600, 000,000—48 1-6 per cent {ncrease, equal to §1-300 of 1 per cent per aunum, 1872—$3, 600, 000, U0 —4+ per cent increare, cqual {0 1 Bil-100 per cent per annum, 1670~§4.000,000,000—11 1-0 per cent Increase, equai to 2 77-100 per cent per snnum, TABLE No. 2 170051, 443,000, 000, 184552, 500, 000, 00033 per cent Increnec in 143 years, cqual to % of 1 per cent per nn- num. 1870—4,060,000,000—00 per cent Increase In twenty-efght years, equal to 2 1.7 per cent pier annul. It will be noticed that the comparative per- centage of yearly Increase In the stock of cuin between 1700 and 1848, of ) of 1 per cent, ns compared to the Incrcase between 1818 and 1876, of 2 1.7 per cent, sbows the comparutive percentage difference to be 323 per cent infavor of the laot-named periol. The annual percentuge of fncrease during the past twenty- cight ycars scems, at a casual glance, a smull addition to the world’s money, being equal in dollars to something over $50,000,000, aund, compared to the tutal stock, appeurs insignifi- cant, But let us conslder for & moment. Should we adil this same percentage (21-7 per ceut) sunually to our already-vxcessive curren- cyy it would certainly delay indefinitely our re- turn to specle-payments, and still further fn- crease our distress; aud, if persisted fn for a term of years, bring bunkruptey ou the couatry. Thia comparison wouid Imply that the world hus been Increasing its volume of colo-eireula- tion too rapldly, cuusing inflation; and the fuct of the great fluctuations In silver may be taken a8 an Indlcation thot such {s tho cusa; for silver, like our paper-currency, having fallen from its former relative value with gold, with great uncertainty os to the rate of its futurs ex- changeability to gold, Is befng made the foot- ball of that uncertainty; and, us [ndications of its praspeetive value favor or discourage specu- ts rise or fall ensues. In the matter of ney, our paper-cirenlation lias, as It were, cut us off from the remainder of the world; and our experience of u er cireuluti medlum, with its attendant cvile, may, by 8 compurison of vur troubles and present condition with those of the outsldo commercial world whose currency {s and has been gold and sllver, enable us to see how closely the conditlons compare. When our Gavernment commnenced its Issue of .paperurrency, making it legal-tender, gold began to flow froin us, and our proportion of the world's coln wns forced into clreulatfon elsc- where,~giving to other commercial nations ro much more curTency than nstarally betonged Lo then, or than the ‘natural wants of commeurce required; nudtho ctfect must huve been to in- fiate vulues, trade, snd production, in ratlo theroto,—elmitar lu effect, thuugh not in dearee, 40 that produced qn this cauntry by our Inlated paper-currcucy. In ten years, from 1802 to 1872, we threw on the world 618,000,000 of gold and $180,000,000 of sllver, leaving us with a very slight percentage of our imports and fmmense product of the precions wetals, When the panic of 1573 came upon us, demoralizing all brauches of trade and Industry, it ted on the world, checklng also {ts mad carcer of excessive pro- duction and development,—bringing distress, failure, and ruln in all branches of industry and conmerce, ‘Thus hus our intlated currency tot only brought distress and ruin on ourselves, but 1t ins made the world its victim also, ‘That we have a larger voluae of clreutating medium than the legitimate demunds of trade and conumerce warrant, is proved by its accumn- Iation {n the moniey-centres of the country, seeking employment at very Jow ratc of intercst, “The sume condition ista In the mouney-centres of Europe large accumnulution of coin, with rates of Inter- w.”kcc ping pace therewlth. ‘These nccumula- tions cl paper and coln may be owing, a8 somy maiutain, to the natucal sensitiveneas of capital to neel sato quurters during the finuncial storm; but 18 it not more 1kely to bo lu snswer to the natural law of supply sud demand, which ap- plies with equal fores to gold, silver, or puper curreney, as to grafn or artlcles of use, value, or trade, among commercial nationsi 1f we re- sumo svevie-payments, the smount taken from the world's stock of cofun_might be somo relief; but it could uot restore the sutne relative condi- tion that existed prlor to 1803, for tho heavy shyinkage fu values during the past four years has greatly reduced the world's cur- reney-requivemionts; while, during the same perfod, the produttion of gold und silver coin hns progressed at an uccelerated pace, us shown {u table No. f,—the cainpurative yearly percent- ugre increase between 1873 amd 1870 homg 52 F\:r cent in tavor of the Just-named period. , Thus two forees huve been ut work to produce the present unsettled conditlon of the relative vatue of gold und silver; and, of thess twa forces, the wost mportant one, the productfon of gold and silver, {tontinues with unabated vigor; and, of tho other, the shriukage in value ot fixed wealth, 1L cannot sakl to bave ceased. Canscquently this growlme evil of un inflated colu-currency will develop itself 5o rapldly in the near futire that the world will be cowpgiled to adopt svomu means to protect fteelf, trade snd commerce, agalust ita baneful luflucuce; and fts ouly eufety will be n cantraction of {ts volume by demone- tizing sllver, and retuining but one standard of vulue, gald, the stock of which fs, uccording to Ernest Beyd's estlinate, § 000,000, which s neurly equal to the total ({ coln, gold and silver, fn 1348, as may bo seen by reference to table No. 1. Gradusl demonetization wuy re- lieve sumewhat the distress thut wmust follow this measure, which seems to by the aonly pro- toetion the world hias_ sgalust & continuunee of the relutively great fncreose annually of fts wetallic clreilating medlum, as illustrated by the compurative percentages in table Nu, 2, It may bu clalied that the world's increased population, production, und commercs warraut & proportionate {ncrease {n clreulation; but, if thot be allowuble now, whew the world’s sunuul increase of coin for the paat twenty-eight years lins heen 21-7 per cent, why or how’ did the world manage, during a period of 148 yenrs, from 1500 to 1843, to' content itseaf with the comparatl stanlticant Inerease of 14 of 1 Per cent i parative difference, fa pereent- ave fnerease, of $25 per cent, ns before stated, The world's population, produetion, and com- merce havey it §a true, increased very greatly; but is It not equally trie that the worli’s means of rapll transit, “as regords cxchanges and movement of produce, increased in equal, {f not rreatery ratlo? Now, {n view of the evident tendency of silver to depreclate in value, owing to its greatly-ine creased production eompared to gold, "as shown in the table of comparative production, would it Le wisc for us to foreake our'prucnl fluctuatin currency to take up silver, *he fluctuations o! which durlng the past six weeks have been over 15per cent, na indicated by the London murket- -llmmt(uns; which s greater than the widest fluctuatinns of greenbacks during the past five yearsl If we desire solld Improvement fn our currency, followed by the same in trade aud production, we should cndeasor to pro- cure the only reliable staudard of value and cxchange the world now affords; and, [ we ‘cannot resume rzold-payments, do not let us commit the folly of-glving-up ons fluctunting currency and taking up another still more fluctuating, “Many svealthy corporations and individuals on the Padtic Const, and no doubt in Europe, are fnterested in chiecking the decliue fn silver, and tirefe manfpuiations of the London sflver market tnay apparently for a thne delay the workings of & naturat luw of supply and demand; but, when this artitielal support gives out, the desline will ngain sct n with ve- newed foree. The time is ripe for the meeting of an International Congress, to consider and devise some means of escape from this silver difliculty, und also to agree upon some {nterna- tfonal standard for the world's currene, TIHE “ NATION?” ON RESUMPTION. To the Editor nf The Tribune, 0o, Aug. 3l.—According to a writer In the Nation, the Weatern people have not so flue a senac of Justice as the Eastern people. Profound generalizationt How furtunate forus that there is an oracle to reveal to us our low grade in morals, so that we may set about the needful work of reformatfont ‘The Nation malkes the point, that, having de- clared for resumption on a certain duy, the faith of the Government (s as securcly bound by ft as 121t hed entered into a formal contract. Itis laudable for the Nution to set precepta of high- toned morality for the Government to live up td; but its teachinge, to be elliclent, should be consistent, Compare the following passajes: ““This Jatter provision [sclling Londs to re- deem greenbacks], we need hardly say, is amply sufliclent for tho object In view. Tlie Resump- tlon act, therefore, completes the natlonal pledge to pay the public debt. It pames the doy when the Treasury will begin to take-up the over-due notes, and provides the source Irom which the means to do so are fo be druwn.” Consequently, not to resumne on the day named would be “an act of repudiation of the slmplest and clearest description.’—[June 13, p. 377.) WIf the Republicans, instead of wasting so much time in cxpusing the_inflatlon and repu- diatjon tendencies of the Democrats, hud di- rected thelr energles for the past ten or fifteen yeurs towards actual resuniption, we should not tow be in the unpleasant quandary of having an act un the statute-book destined'to bring 1t about on a given day, without uny supplemental Ieglslation to carry it out.” *If the R:l;mb- licuns, when they tiked the-1st of Junnary, 1570, s the duy of resumption, hud sdopted a well- defined und carefully-matured pulicy on the subject, the work might by this time have heen lalf-lone. But, instead of that, they puered un act which meant contraction to ene party, lnfla- tion to another, and left the matter in such o position as to be at the merey of the first hos- tile Iouse of Kepresentatives."—Aug. 3, p. G, This {s a singular way of characf measures which, only n Tow weeks befor Nation declared to be a *“u contruct with every {;L‘riou holding United States notes; ' and that, ayment did not begin on the Ist of January, 15?0. it would L8 “repudiation in u peeuliarly gross and repulsive shape,” and would put **us ou & par with Mexieo and Guateinsla.” Theye should be some fitting recognition of such tnan- cinl righteousnces and consisteney. There Is another feature of this subject, how- ever, which the Vation does not appear to be In the habit of contemplating, For yeurs ufter tho War gold ran dowy steadify, without o Resump- tlon luw, without forced contraction, without serlous detriment to people who were in debt, ‘This hud gone on so naturally and so well that It ind become ulinost equivaient to o promise onthe part of the financlsl management that arbitrury contraction would not be resorted to to briug (ftveubw:ku up to gold, und thus in- crease by Intention the burtben of the people’s fudebtedness. The result upon the proletarianand bucolicinind was, that thousands wpon thousauds incurred debt for homes and the finprovement of those homes. They {nferred the future conrse of things from the past, aud on this faith they Yenmmi But fu the latal yearof '7 came tirst the demunetization of sflver, and then the “panie.’” This should have been enongh, but it waus not. Early in %75, a day was set for re- sumption to begin; and by that act the psycho- lomical effects uof Inevitable resumption’were created, und all the industries of the country are now so paralyzed that it 1s almost impossible for u working tuan with a emall capital to pay a debt. The 1(csuu?mun act, by setting a day when the holders of notes and mortzages for legal-tender should be paid in gold or its equiy- alént, executed a “ snap-judgiment " against wll those debtors; and it is held-up for cuntewmpla- tlon as the embodiment of Justice. It fdoesnot take the curse off that the promise of the day turns out to be an empty one: it is only the worse for it that it is doqu the mischiel of the worlk mosteffectunily, while ft §s faillng totaily to do the work {tself.” But, while admitting the unsupported worthlessuess of the promise, the Natlon insists that we must begin resutoption on the day specitied, or sink to the ivial Tevel of Mexio and Guateniala. : But why this hot haste to resuine just nowli Justice to crediturs, says the Nativu. But, whien the debt was Incurred, there was no prom- fse of aday; and, If the creditor hus mumfli:hl to nelst on an ** early day ' thau the debtor has to {usist on a late one, it "must be remembered that waare {n the midst of * bard tmes," and that this shoutd clmllumi;: consideration for the debtor, if, udeed, the debtor is ever entitled to the benefit of u doubt o the score of justice. So urgent are the rights of creditors that we must airitate for contraction and resumption be- fore the commercial revulsion las reached fts worst, thus co-operating with the revalsion it- self to crush the debtor,—and all for justice to the creditor. But whu §s this ereditor fur whomn there is auclysolicitwde? Hols Protean-formed ; no one delineatlon fits him, sud justice npplics with exceptions and qualitications. Muny a shrewd fellow—to be counted by thousands— who was in debt when the Jegal-tender law was enacted,and paid hisdebts in depreciated money, 15 now a money-lender, nml, huving lent depre- cfated currency, It awakens rightcous fndignation f be s not paid In gold. But, if be has wlways heen a money-fender, is hefn need that hieentombs of debtors must be sacriticed for his behiooft Could not he walt til thy commercin) crisis has epent 1t forced e had o vich har- vest during the War ond afterward, and some of bis gains ure graenback-galus, Avyway, i3 it notn vulger scnse of fustice that deémands specdy resumption [n the uterest of the credi- tor mirely, when, by the termns of the contract, hie hus no legal right to fnalst on o particular duy, regardicss of the general interests of the peopled Much more trustworthy fs that plen for justice which nsists upon resumption for the zood of sl the people; and no doubt the wood of all elasses will he promoted by resuiny- tlon properly Lrought about, in thu stability and conlldence it will glve in all buslness-trans- wctfons, We must caine to the stapdurd of the commercial world at last. Greenbickism fs un fmpractical fanaticistn, which will havo its little duy, uml then die-out, ta e remenbered onl us one of the follj:s of the aze, It is a sporadic offlahoot from American politics, whose grawth has been fustered by the threat of forced re- sumption; and the'une may well be allowed fer | the day to pluy compantonskip to the other. Without uud resumntiun fuw, gold ran down from 280 to 115 by the uperation of what ma be catled natural causes, psychological, soclaf, und comercial, Ten-clevenths of the pres wiinm on gold (165 per cent) was got rid of without vivleot measures; and might we not ‘hope to get rid of the remainiug oneeleventh 16 per.cent) by the operstion uf Hke causes ! LUy ull means avold expanslon aud the least démblance of repudlation, snd, with economy und good falth, wait u Httle longer, without ree sorting to arbitrary measurea fur thu sggrava- tlon of cutumerelgl distress and the fnercuse of our publle debt, The. Nation cbserves that, when gold went down from 300 %10 115 and ue- Dbody crivd vut, this uproar sbout getting rid of thie Jast little is per cent of discount $a there- fore somewhat ubsurd,” There Is o converse alde to this: It gold went down g0 wuch with- out any uproar to lfet it down, ull this nolse to get rid of the last littly 15 per cent ts somewhat absurd. Aud it mnr be udded thas 1o this ** fust o peratstently kept up, is duo much of the miscldel of our tinguclal cxperiencgs, Its effect {5 to unsettlo and to destroy contidence, When it is_propused to equslize soldiers’ bouuties, the Nation thiuks it worse thuu ab- surd to fucur s additionul indebtedness of a hundred milllons when It 13 uot demauded by the terms of the contract with soldiers; but, to et greenbucks up to gold n justice to credit. Ors, thy Natlon declarcs that the ¥ bwo buudred £ Exlulllunl" 1t wouldadd to the publie debt womid not Impose nnrr immedlate " hardship on the community,"” and “would hardly be falt," makes a great difference on whose legg the boot I« The scnse of justiee Is never so exquisits as when 1t _gues Lo the hehonf of the moncy-bags. Againt the siiver quertion affords an axcels leat occnslon for Lie dirplny of this superior des vutlon to Justice. The demonetization of silver throws & ‘greater burthen of duty upon %old a8 uioncy, and thereby enhances its value, This sict of demonctization makes it mors difMcult 4o return to the speclo-baals, for the simple resson that the paper haatoappreclate mare to reach the Increased height of the standard. This makes necessary a greater increase of the public in- dehtedness in order torestime. Resumptionthus inade more AiMenlt, the Nation Jnalats on ro- suming apecdily,: When greenbacks were made . le%nl-tcmler, llver wus inoney, and, csa- Jointfy with gold, the measure o curancy~ values; and 1now we are taught that justics demands that we shall get up to the apecle- standard {n hot haate, regardless of the fact that it 1s more difticult to do s0 than when tha contract with creditors wus made. And not only 8o, but now the movement to remonetiza Sliver. ofter it Lias been almost clandestinel demonctized, 80 mortally offends the Nations sense of justice thas it raves like mad sbout it as ‘:tihe proposed silver-swindie.”"—[Aug, 1 Weare not to expect from certain quartera any such weakness na s regard for the rights of the vulgar people; but for the rights of the creditor we may expect the tenderest solicltude. When the cominon soldier wanta_equalization, or the vulgar debtor wants time, theae sticklers for justice remind him of the terms of the con- tract: but, when the creditor insiats on settio- ment, they will do better than the terms of the contract warrant, and crash through every con- slideration of clrpums:anm:{ to pay on az “carly day," not In sliver and gold, but n gold alone, Perhaps it 18 not best to relnstate silver, It ias become subject to finctuation of price, the drift of history may be againat its retention as mouney. It Is not praposcd here to take sides on that r‘uen(un; but surely if by the suppres- slon of sliver we have enbanced the yalue of gold to the creditor, he would sunply show de- cency, to say nothiug of justice, uol to press so urgently for a syeedy scttlement. It is not cven his own interest, In any enlarged sense, to take ndvautage of commercial and industrial depression to enforce contractfon, increase |the uationdl debt, ageravate psychological glad ance in husiness-channels, and crusk down n dehtors who are ulready in an uncqual ,uudg"le. _Until rceently 1 lave always regarded the Nation ns financial authority, and I hare been loth to make these strictures. L .1 pubecribe myself, lcfl-ccflu]l , one of ths people, o non-partisan, sud o Hurd-Modey mian, R T S gadend DEMONETIZATION OF SILVER, To the Editor of The Tribune. T gregt Brroy, L, Aug, 31.—Iaving read vith fnterest the articles discussing the silver ques- tion, I hiave been anxivus to sec one argumeht affered which L have not scen {n print, and I venture to contribute. 2 1t has been urged that the demonetization of the sflver dojiar was a fraud on the people, in that It was done in an underhand manner; and, while It Is admitted that the matter was not brought prominently befaore the public, yet the quality of fraud must be dismiesed, s, at the time the silver unit of value was Jegislated out of existence, the silver dollar was warth rmore than the gold dollar, Is this suineient to prove that it was not a fraud! 1t s owell-known fact that, if you ean ine ercase the uses of un article of limited produc- tion, you enhance its value; and the reverse is cqually truc, that, {f you reducs the uses of an article, you decrease Its value. The latter has been done with silver, and the former has been done with gold. Gold has now to fill a broader field; the amount {s limited, and what thero Is must supply the needs of the urtsand commerce. It Is admitied by the partics who laboréd the il through Congress—in fuet, urged? by them—that they received vuluable suggestiona from an experty Mr. Ernest Seyd, who {s well known to be s writer lu the interest of the money-kinzs of Europe. Mr. Seyd Isan expert; and, if he {8 an expert, e well under- stands the propositions I have noted above, and- he inust have Known that, by the demonetizivg of sllver ju the United States (ouc of the great- cst factors in the commerce of the wurld), it would hcnlungslur toward working up & gi- gantle corner ou gold, of which themoney-kings of Europe hold the controliie quantity (power), and the United States the minimum, The effcet of followlug Mr. 8eyd’s ndvice be- ing now discovered, and’ clearly brought homo to u, it s certainly fair to hold Wlim and thoee whom hc;rcrn:sunu respongible. We tind we Lave been cheated, II it be urged that Mr. Seyd did not recome mend the chango of the unit of values fromn sflver Lo pold, arc we not forced to thu conclu- siun (and this the most charitable one) that Mr. Rooper and his fricnds committed o gread blunder? And, if it was n blunder, is it not a frand on the prople that our Legislators did not understund their business; for whether or uot the British money-kings bad any influence in the matter, are we not now i thelr power, and paying large tribute to them! . We producy, it is suld, three-filths of the waorld's product of gilver; und what ure wo to o with it but sell it to the gold money-kings— at their priced Jusius Houtns. —————pr— — " WHEN MY THOUGHTS ARE WITH THEE. When Morn, the maid, opes each dew-locked eyes . Slght of Lier coming lover first ta cateh, Angd vlippltg from ber couch, pink-curtain bid, On tipioe docs the dour of Day unlateh, "Tis then my thoughta to thee ull foudly rove; For caine thou n the morning to my heart, To Jight 8 with the sunshine of ly Tove, And canse the clunds of sudness o depart. ” When ?.1"13' tho kujght, with gold breastplate and shiicld, Tteaplendent In theds Lizhly-burnished sheen, Steps. pmudlf furtl: from oll a congueror's tleld, A Aud, emiling, crowns decp-blusping Earii ke queen, ¥Ti4 then mY thoughty to thee take awiftest wing; Yor huve 1 not thy kinnd in hanor won t ‘o thee all my Tife-lnrels ich | bl Thee 1 crown with the smibe of glury's sun, Wiien Eye, the matron, Suger-tp to lip, Does hush ber child, the wef.',, World, rrom 8y, Aud, Erooning e its eradte, toon 10 slcey LMy it with plaintive zephyr's nureery-lay, *Tis then ny thoughtes to thee all feetly iy For, when Iny soul was with {88 striving spent, Thy voice came, soft ant aweet as lullaby, Ard svothed it to the state of calin coutent. When Night, the monk, In sombre hood aud stole, Draws down unto the Earth, his clojster-cell, And benlsons breathes for rep 'Pill fuint §s beard, for matin-inase. the bell, “Tia then my thoughts sre In bright dreams with the For. when my sinful heart was il at ease, In Heaven's hol {‘ love drew thou Lo me, And with 1ty Dlesslng bade all tronble cease. Cuicauo, Augn H MarcoLy Taviom S —— MEETING AGAIN. And then—what then? Only a hand that ie honeat and pure, That gold cannot gain sud no bribe allore; Only o look that s tender and true, Firm in its purpoee to dare snd fa do; Leeping patlent watch over fast.roviog thonght, Buying the welcome that nothing has bought, Tlolding the soul by a silent, deap spell, Telliny the tale never yet told so well. And then—~what then? Only & Al fn » heavy, durk cload ‘That s hanging o'er life, the pall and tha shroud; Qnly o light breaking through like the Ttising o'vr mountaine of shadow and wrong; Only # silent and hurried embtace, Av we drive on sgain In 1ife's busy race; 1leld to the beart just s moment, ‘and thea Parted forever for nught we may ken. Cuicauo, August, ——— SUMMER. 3 The drowsy day glide Phe distant Lilly, inm! Stand stern and tall, an Qu which the Illllu‘owl o snd fall. - The mcadows green are bathed in sheen Qf golden shufts, that burn and gleam? “Phe cool winds bluw, and, soft and low, Pue pince sing songs of Jong-sgo. Bwift by my side the red lea: tde, RAh (e iver's ruaing tde; o+ A Hiy's crtst upon its brenst Shivers, will u vague unroat, A robin trille far ur the hilla, And sll the alr with music lle; 'he evening-shades fall o'er the glades Aud slow the purple sunsst tades. FaLix BEOVER,; = ter —— Tolly's Revengu. 0 Qur Duny dnimals, i Mrs, B.s parrot was very foud of cracke apd inllk, und so was Tom, her cat, who wenld wiutel b3 chanee to vob poor Foll's tin ¢y runnine his lunfi fore-paw through the bars the vage nud taking out plece by plece untdl the dish wua empty. One unlucky day Tom sat by the side ol the cuge, Polly, asusually, scrutcl- piug his head and’ whisperiug {u an uuknows lunguage, When, as sudden s s flask of lgbt- ming, he grabbed the cat’s tall i bia LIt add it off nearly an luch s smoothly as it It had beea doue with u kuite. Then such roars of triuroph, laughiter, aud s he didnotatop sasaning tor au bour. Tow stole no more P