An edition of The Life of Samuel J. Tilden
(2009)
The Life of Samuel J. Tilden
Volume 2 - Revised Edition - larger & newer font typeset
by Nikki, Oldaker and John Bigelow
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The Life of Samuel J. Tilden: Volume 2 - Revised Edition - larger & newer font typeset
March 2009, Show Biz East Production
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CHAPTER I.
Presidential canvass of 1876 — Assailable points of Grant's administration— Popular majority for Tilden and Hendricks — Inception of the conspiracy to defeat the popular choice — Senator Barnum, John C. Reid, and the " New York Times " — William E. Chandler's break-of-day despatches — Troops ordered to Florida — President Grant's despatch to General Sherman — Foul operations of conspirators in Florida—How rewarded by President Hayes — General Barlow
Page 15
CHAPTER II.
The conspirators' operations in Louisiana—William Pitt Kellogg —Visiting statesmen in New Orleans — The composition and operations of the Louisiana Returning Board — Garfield — Sherman — Anderson — Jewett—Eliza Pinkston — Fraudulent registration — The reward of the conspirators
Page 41
CHAPTER III.
The electoral count of 1877 — Senator Morton's scheme — Tilden's history of the presidential counts — President Grant concedes Tilden's election — Electoral commission created — Disapproved of by Tilden — Refuses to raffle for the presidency—Horatio Seymour's speech before the New York electors — Dr. Franklin's advice to his son — The Florida case — The Louisiana case — The Oregon case — Conflicting decisions of the commission — The commission for sale — The forged certificates from Louisiana — Decision of the commission condemned by the House of Representatives — Letter of Charles Francis Adams — Tilden's reply — Protest of the Democratic minority of the electoral commission— Thurman and Bayard — James Russell Lowell
Page 62
CHAPTER IV.
Revisits Europe — Blarney Castle — St. Patrick's Cathedral — Tom Moore's birthplace —The cabman's criticism — Lord Houghton's story — General Grant's reception in London -Tilden elected an honorary member of the Cobden Club — Visits the home of his ancestry — Arrives in Paris — Attends the funeral of Thiers — Talk with Gambetta — Louis Blanc's account of his visit to Louis Napoleon when a prisoner at Ham, and of the loss and recovery of his voice in London — The story of General Cavaignac's brother and mother — Tilden's exposure in recrossing the channel — Re-turns to the United States — The " Indian Corn Speech "
Page 117
CHAPTER V.
The trials and temptations of a bachelor millionaire — Proposals of marriage in verse and prose
Page 140
CHAPTER VI.
The cipher despatches — Tilden's address to the people of the United States in regard to them — His examination by a congressional committee— A calumnious report corrected — Letter to Senator Kernan
Page 161
CHAPTER VII.
Income-tax returns — New persecutions by the administration — The capitulation of the administration — The ignominious end of seven years' persecution — Letters of Edwards Pierrepont, special counsel for the government; S. L. Woodford, United States District Attorney; Green B. Raum, United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue; Charles J. Folger, Secretary of the Treasury; and Benjamin H. Brewster, Attorney-General of the United States
Page 220
CHAPTER VIII.
The purchase of Graystone — Dinner to J. S. Morgan — Mr. Tilden rebukes third-term candidates for the presidency — Withdraws from public life — Letter to Mr. Manning declining the presidential nomination in 1880 — The Cincinnati convention — Urged for a re-nomination in 1884— Second letter of declension
Page 256
CHAPTER IX.
Tilden's relations to the new President —Senator Garland a suitor—Letters to Manning — Tilden's and Jefferson's views of civil service — Harbor defences — Letter to Carlisle — Tilden's friends proscribed at Washington — Letter to Watterson — George W. Julian — Tilden discourages his nephew and namesake from embarking in politics — R. B. Minturn — Manning's illness and retirement from the treasury — History of the Monroe Doctrine — The Broadway railroad — Advice to Governor Hill against the proposed enlargement of the Erie canal — Favors the bill for an international park and for the protection of the Adirondack forests
Page 281
CHAPTER X.
Tilden's last days — The books he read — His death—Whittier's elegiac verses — The funeral — Mr. Tilden's will — The validity of the Tilden will contested — The trustees of the Tilden Trust purchase a half-interest in the estate — James C. Carter's argument - Provision made by the Legislature and afterwards withdrawn, for the Tilden Free Library
Page 341
CHAPTER XI.
Conclusion
Page 364
APPENDIX A.
Address of the minority of the electoral commission of 1877
Page 383
APPENDIX B.
Party sentiment in favor of Tilden's re-nomination for the presidency in 1884
Page 392
APPENDIX C.
Miss Gould's list of the books read to Mr. Tilden during the last years of his life
Page 403
APPENDIX D.
Last will and testament of Samuel Jones Tilden
Page 421
APPENDIX E.
Act to Incorporate the Tilden Trust
Page 439
ILLUSTRATION.
Tilden Family on porch at GRAYSTONE
Page 45
ILLUSTRATION.
Tilden Homestead New Lebanon
Page 139
ILLUSTRATION.
GRAYSTONE MANSION
Page 255
ILLUSTRATION.
Tilden, Mayor Wickham, Mary Pelton at Martha Washington Reception Academy of Music
Page 303
ILLUSTRATION.
U S Senate Hearings 1877
Page 402
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