" Just twenty-eight years after the delegate from Xc-w York, who had been selected by his colleagues for the purjwse, broke to their outraged constituents the story of their State's humiliation, that same delegate

received the suffrages of a large majority of his countrymen for the highest honoi' in their gift ; and to-day, through that delegate's influence, another citizen of New York who was nominated by a Democratic National Convention, which imposed no sectional tests, and who was elected without the vote of a single slaveholder, becomes the chief magistrate and most honored citizen of the Kepublic.

'The wheel is come full circle.'

and the bones of the Democratic party that were broken ujwn the cross of slavery in 1848, now, after an interval of thirty-six years, are once more knit together, and the tra<litions and the doctrines inherited from the golden age of the Republic are about to resume, not merely their oHicial, but their moral supremacy in the nation." >

The four years from 18t)9 to 1878 were mainly devoted by Mr. Tilden to the overthrow of what was known as the Tweed Ring, which had thoroughly debauched every branch of the New York City government, legislative, executive and judicial, and was threatening the State government also with its foul embrace.

"The total surrender of my professional business during that period," he has siiid in one of his published conimunications, " the nearly absolute withdrawal of attention from my private afl'airs, and from all enterprises in which I am interested, have cost nie a loss of actual income, which* with e.xpenditures and contributions the contest has required, would be a respectable endowment of a public charity.