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Title: Statesmen
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903
Subjects: Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858 Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886 Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Statesmen
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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steries andintricacies of the before-mentioned suits. Thepoint at issue in this case was, whether theenlargement of the canal had rendered trans-portation cheaper than it had been before its en-largement. By a series of computations andconclusions, drawn from the books of the canalcompany, Tilden with methodical precision, es-tablished a complete defence for the coal com-pany. The system which he pursued was acombination of skilfulness and ingenuity, and thecase, which was a novelty in its time, is referredto as one in which novel principles and entirelyoriginal methods of procedure were adopted.His tables, which were marvels of methodicalelaborateness, became a species of technicalstandard in matters of this kind. Commentingon this case long afterward, Tilden said: I re-member an anecdote which ex-President VanBuren once told me of John Randolph. Some-body was speaking to him in a complimentaryvein in reference to a debate in the House ofRepresentatives, and told him that a speech of
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Mr. Tildens New York House, at No. 15 Gramercy Park. 266 STATESMEN his had not been answered. Answered, sir,said he; it was not made to be answered/ Andso, sir, these tables were not made to be confuted.They are made according- to the best process ofscientific analysis, proved step by step from therecords of the plaintiffs themselves, and are in-troduced here in strict conformity of the rulesof evidence. Tilden showed that the coalcompany, instead of reaping an advantage fromthe enlargement of the canal, had suffered loss.The verdict accordingly was rendered in favor ofhis clients. From this time Tildens career as a lawyer waslargely devoted to rescuing corporations fromunprofitable and embarrassing litigation, in reor-ganizing their administration, in re-establishingtheir credit, and in rendering their resourcesavailable. One of his biographers has said: Since the year 1855, it is safe to say that morethan half the great railway corporations Northof the Ohio and between the Hudson an

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