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Mr.Tilden measured to the Southern standard of the gentleman in politics.

He impressed the disfranchised Southern leaders as a statesman of the old order and altogether after their own ideas of what a President ought to be.
The South came to St.Louis, the seat of the National Convention, represented by its foremost citizens, and almost a unit for the Governor of New York.

The main opposition sprang from Tammany Hall, of which John Kelly was then the chief.

Its very extravagance proved an advantage to Tilden.
Two days before the meeting of the convention I sent this message to Mr.
Tilden: "Tell Blackstone"-- his favorite riding horse--"that he wins in a walk." The anti-Tilden men put up the Hon.