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Excerpt from Life Sketches of Government Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York for 1875 The young Democrats in the rear of the hall, comprising, perhaps, one fourth of the assembly, shouted for tilden, who found himself compelled to speak. After an able argument upon the question in controversy, he passed to the personal aspects of the Senator's speech he alluded to the Senator's statement that the Democrats had changed position, while he himself had remained consistent. Then turning to the Whigs, he asked if they found them selves now in unison with the Senator who had been opposed to them in the contest he had narrated? He earnestly appealed to them to know if they, and not the Senator, had changed. He then addressed the chairman of the meeting, a venerable citizen of near eighty, and pressed him in a tone of mingled compliment and expostulation, until in the excite ment of the occasion he declared audibly that be had not changed. Of this declaration Mr. Tilden availed himself to the utmost and applied it to the Senator in a strain of masterly sarcasm and irony. It is enough to say that this scene was electric. It thrilled the assembly. The youth of twenty-four had given the Senator a Roland for his Oliver. The effect of this speech was so powerful that when young tilden was requested to address another meeting to be held a few miles distant, the young Whigs declared, it is said, that if he did they would whip him. Elam tilden wrote an account of this meeting to silas wright, who responded in a letter highly appreciative of the talent and pluck of young samuel J. Tilden. 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.