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Show 1ILUEVS ACTIOS! A Sensible, U'lsenuU Putrlotic Course. New York, 23. An eminent and aged citizen of Alabama interviewed Mr. Tdden hero to-day. He argued that he should have insisted upon hia rights as the elected president, saying that if the proper announcement ol the vote of the electoral college had been prevented the bouse of representatives repre-sentatives would have elected him according ac-cording to the forms of law, aod made itself responsible for his induction induc-tion into office, Tilden replied that lie had carefully and conscientiously considered the subject in all its possible pos-sible phases, and had become convinced con-vinced that should he adopt the course suggested it would be resisted to the extent of drenching the land in blood ; that be shrunk from the responsibility of precipitating another terrible civil war and conceded to the compromise which averted that disaster. He flt keenly the impropriety of the means by wnich the present rpsult has been brought about, but did not regret his own action. |