A Political Crime

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Excerpt from A Political Crime: The History of the Great Fraud The election of Tilden and Hendricks by the people: Sectional prejudices and class interests: The crime of the nineteenth century admitted by republicans: The patriotism of Mr. Tilden: His preference for private life: The great labors he had performed in the service of the State: The irreparable loss to the people of the United States: - The foolhardy attempt to maintain alien governments in the Southern States their overthrow hailed with joy by all good people. On Tuesday, November 7th, 1876, the people of the United States, by their suffrages, selected for President and Vice-President, Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks, and were deprived of their choice by illegal methods, bolstered by frauds, perjuries, and forgeries. Sectional prejudices, engendered by years of violent political agitation, and intensified by civil war, the excitement of a fiercely contested presidential campaign, and vast and widely ramifying financial interests, warped the judgement of many good men and constrained them then to countenance and acquiesce in the acts of politicians bent on self-aggrandizement, intent upon the gratification of their ambition, and determined, at all hazards, to perpetuate their power. Calm reflection, sober reasoning, deliberate consideration in the midst of the wild excitement of that hour was, perhaps, more than ought to have been expected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.