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Copyright, 1895, by JOHN BIGELOW.
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CONTENTS
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CHAPTER I
Presidential canvass of 1876- Assailable points of Grant's administra-
tion 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. Chand-
ler's break-of-day despatches - Troops ordered to Florida - Presi-
dent Grant's despatch to General Sherman - Foul operations of
conspirators in Florida- How rewarded by President Hayes-
General Barlow
CHAPTER II
The conspirators' operations in Louisiana-William Pitt Kellogg
Visiting statesmen in New Orleans - The composition and opera-
tions of the Louisiana Returning Board- Garfield Sherman
Anderson-Jewett Eliza Pinkston - Fraudulent registration
The reward of the conspirators
CHAPTER III
Page
1-32
33-56
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Tilden's
The electoral count of 1877 Senator Morton's scheme
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 Sey-
mour'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 Lou-
isiana - 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 com-
mission - Thurman and Bayard - James Russell Lowell . .57-118
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
turns to the United States The "Indian Corn Speech" 119-144
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CHAPTER V
The trials and temptations of a bachelor millionaire
marriage in verse and prose
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
168-223
CHAPTER VII
- The
Income-tax returns New persecutions by the administration
capitulation of the administration - The ignominious end of seven
years' persecution Letters of Edwards Pierrepont, special coun-
sel for the government; S. L. Woodford, United States District
Attorney; Green B. Raum, United States Commissioner of Inter-
nal Revenue; Charles J. Folger, Secretary of the Treasury; and
Benjamin H. Brewster, Attorney-General of the United States, 224-260
CHAPTER VIII
The purchase of Graystone
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
CHAPTER IX
261-288
Tilden's relations to the new President-Senator Garland a suitor - Let-
ters 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