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Elizabeth 4. Smith, of Huntington, IN hs
March Harper's.si.;
HAYES, UNKEPT PROMISES.
History of His Bargaining with South.
.,,i. ern Democrats.
Correspondence Of the New Iork Sun.
- WASHINGTON, March Is.
There have been some intimations
given out by several Southern Democrats
to the effect that if Hayes did not with.
draw the troops from Louisiana and
South Carolina, and thus allow the Mich.
oils and Hampton governments of those
States to assert their power, he would be
rendered infamous. 1t has also been said
by Southern Democrats that if the troops
were not withdrawn from the neighbor-
hood of the State Houses in New Orleans
and Columbia, Mr.. Hayes would break
his plighted faith, and at the proper time
the proof of this would be furnished, if
the people of Louisiana and South Caro-.
lima were left to the tender mercies of
their carpet-bag, and negro oppressors.
These vague assertions have very gener-
ally been held to be the idle yaporings
and empty boasts of few hot-aeaded
Southern Democrats. If any credence
whatever was placed in them, it was only
to the extent that these men based their
assertions solely upon that part of Hayes
inaugural in which he declares that the
people of every State are entitled to Local
self-government. 90; - . .; Z
The facts about:an agreement between
Hayes and Hampton and Nichols rep
resentatives are as follows: Just before
the meeting Of. Congress in. December
last, one Roberts, an attache of the New
Orleans Times, visited Columbus, Ohio,
on his way to Washington, and had an
interview with Hayes at the house of
Comfy, editor of the Ohio State Journal.
Roberts had slight acquaintance with
Comfy, but he was supplied with letters
of introduction from Stanley Matthews
and Murat Halstead: 1t was telegraphed
from Columbus at the time that Roberts
had an interview with Hayes as the rep
resentative of certain Southern Demo
Gratis, and among others it was mentioned
that he had credentials from Senator
Lamar and Wade Hampton. This part
of the story Roberts promptly denied.
He also declared that Lamar was in no
way .privy to his visit, and hei further de-
MED that Hampton or any other South
ern Democrat authorized him to propose
any terms to Hayes. Those who were
acquainted with Mr.. Roberts accepted
these denials implicitly, and they did so
the more readily from the fact that while
he was in every way an excellent gentle
man, still he was not such man as
would very likely be sent.upon mission
of this kind by the friends of either
Nichols or Hampton. Subsequently,
however, assertions were made by Rob-
.erts which indicated that he became the
medium of communication between the
friends of Hayes and certain Southern
Democrats. In the sessions. of the Elec-
toral Commission Roberts was in constant
communication with Matthews and Eos
ter, ind after Hayes arrived here, both
before and after the Inauguration, Rob-
erts had frequent interviews with him.
:; At the same time Foster was constantly
making overtures to Southern Democrats,
and he assured them that in the event of
Hayes coming in, Packard and Chamber.
lain should be abandoned and Nichols
and Hampton should be recognized as
the de facto Governors of Louisiana and
South Carolina. After Matthews arrived
here as one Of the Republican counsel
before the Electoral Commission, he also
had frequent interviews with Southern
Democrats and gave them similar assur-
ances. These overtures were met by
Southern men very candidly with e re-
ply that they could listen to no proposals
which even implied the abandonment of
Tilden. But after the decision in the
Florida case they manifested decidedly
more interest in Foster and Matthews
and when the Louisiana case was decided
against them they were ready to make
terms with what they foresaw to be the
inevitable. All this time Senator Gordon
was acting as the personal representative
Of Hampton, and Major Burke of New
Orleans was. here as the representative of
Nichols. lPhe Hon. NJ. @. Butler, Sena-
tor, elect from the Hampton Legislature,
acted in conjunction with Senator Cor
don in looking after the interests of South
Carolina, and Gibson, Ellis and Levy,
Democratic Representatives from Loui-
siana;; were constantly consulted by Maj.
Burke. These gentlemen frequently had
interviews with President Grant. Their
object was to induce him to take no steps
toward recognizing either Packard or
Chamberlain. They secured pledge to
this effect from Grant, but at the same
time he intimated that the ultimate de-
cision of the Louisiana case, so far as the
State Government was concerned, would
depend upon the decision of the Electo.
raj Commission as to the electoral votes.
In other words, he gave them to under.
stand that if the Commission decided
that the electoral votes of Louisiana
should be counted for Hayes, then he
would feel bound to recognize Packard:
This was shortly after the Electoral bill
became law, and Grants declaration
was not at all satisfactory to the. Louisi-
ana Democrats. They redoubled their
efforts to satisfy Grant that the people Of
Louisiana would not endure longer the
yoke of the carpet-baggers, but they
made slight impression on him until the
last two or three weeks of his admins
tration. Immediately after the discus
sion in the House on the decision of the
Commission in the Louisiana case had
been concluded and the objection to an
elector from Michigan was under consid-
Grafton, Foster made a speech which he
said he had intended to make on Louisi-
ana. In this speech he declared that
under Hayes administration the flag
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