The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-12-31

policies, and aiming to show that he was seated,
| in accordance with formal bargains, some Of
which he has deliberately broken. Mr.. Chand-
| Ter supplements his letter with formidable
| array of documents which he presents as
'proofs that bargains were made" We give
| the text in full below not alone Of the letter
bat of the proofs which accompany it:
CONCORD, N. H., December 26, 1877.
| To the Republicans OF Nec Hampshire;
\ 1t is my privilege and duty, as your represen-
| tative on the Republican National Committee
to state to you the reas ons for my hostility to
the so-cslled Southern policy Of the Admins
l tration of President Hayes.
| The Presidential campaign Of 1876 was car
ried on with no announced change of the prin
ciples of the Republican party concerning the
Southern States lately in rebellion. The Gin
| cinnati Convention had declared the Republi-
can party to be ''sacredly pledged to the com.
plete protection of all citizens OF the South sin
| the free enjoyment of all their rights" We
declare it TO be the solemn obligation Of the
| legislative and executive departments Of the
| Government to put in immediate exercise all
| their constitutional powers for secur-
| ing to every American citizen complete liberty
snd exact equality in the exercise of all civil
political and public right. To this end we inn
| peratively demand Congress and Chief Erecu
| the whose COURAGE and FIDELITY to these du-
ties shall not falter until these results are
l placed beyond dispute or recall" Mr.. George
| William Curtis in the convention had COM
| mended his favorite candidate as one who,
EARNED with the power of the Government of
| the United States as District Attorney Of Ken
| lucky, hunted aud hunted aud hunted the Ku-
| Klux until the Ku-Klux disappeared. The life
of every man at the South is safe 10 the hands
| of this man from Kentucky, who has known,
1 as you of the South have bitterly learned,
the moral perils of the struggle"
Governor Hayes, in his letter of acceptance,
| endorsed the resolutions, and specially declared
himself in favor of ''the complete protection Of
all citizens in the free enjoyment Of all their
constitutional rights. 'What the South needs
most is peace, and peace depends upon the
| supremacy of the law. There can be no endur-
ing peace if the constitutional rights OF any
: portion of the people are habtuslly disre-
| s'erded." The candidate for Vice President,
Che Hon. William A. Wheeler, announced it to
be tn mission of the party to secure "to every
Amer can citizen complete liberty aud exact
| equality in the exercise of all civil, political
| and public rights This will be accomplished
ouly when the American citizen, without re-
gard to color shall wear this panoply of citizen
ship as freely aud securely IN the cane-brskes
of Louisiana as on the banks of the ST. Law
renee The Presidential campaign was car
| ried on. so far as methods and utterances were
concerned, in No respects differently from the
campaigns of 1868 and 1872. The duty OF the
constitutional aud legal means for the protec-
ton of life and free ballot at the South, was
| the principal issue of the contest. The bloocy
shirt" as it is termed, was freely waved, and
Governor Hayes himself urged prominent pub
lie men to put forward as our best argument
the dangers of ''rebel rule and solid South.
On the 8th of November when he thought him.
self defeated, he uttered these words: II do
not care for myself @ ~ but do care
I for the poor colored men Of the South -
| Northern men cannot live there and will leave.
y The Southern people will practically
treat the Constitutional amendments as NULL
| ties and then the colored mans fate will be
l worse than If he was in slavery. T" That
is the only reason regret that the news is as it
| is" On this main issue, the necessity of keep
l ing Federal power in Republican hands and
using it for the protection of black and white
campaign, by Governor Hayess adVice and pro-
curement, carried on and won.
II.
On the morning of the 7th of November it
was apparent that Hayes and Wheeler were
! elected by one majority if South Carolina,
Florida and Louisiana bad given them their
votes. But Immediately the Tildeu forces
hungry Northern and desperate Southern DEM
ocrats--determin to prevent the counting of
the votes of those States for the Republican
/ candidates; and threats, attempts to bribe and
| all manner of foul influences were arrayed to
| seduce or intimdate the local Republican
| officials who were to declare the result. To
counteract these Vaccinations Governor Hayes
sent a large array OF distinguished persons to
the contested States, from Ohio notably the
| following: Messrs. John Sherman, afterwards
made Secretary of the Treasury; Stanley Mat
thews, private counsel for Governor Hayes,
afterwards made United States Senator by his
| influence; Edward T. Noyes, afterwards made
minister to France; John Little, Governor
Hayes's Attorney. General; Samuel Shella-
barger, Governor Hayes's private counsel;
james A. Garfield, member OF Electoral Com
v.,fo and Apaini ofr rofi anAih ihofu fnr
Speaker; and many others went there from
l other sections In South Carolina and Florida,
l owing to the manifest facts and to the noble
fearlessnesS OF Governor Daniel III Chamber
! lain and Governor Marcellus l.. Stesrns in pro-
tecting the canvassing boards, the correct re-
suit OF the election-the choice of Hayes elect
| ors-was declared, without extraordinary as
surances from the Northern visitors In Lou
1 isiana, however, there had been thrown into
the ballot boxes over 7000 more votes for the
Tilden than for the Hayes electors and to make
Hayes President it became necessary for the
/ Returning Board, acting under peculiar local
laws, to throw out more than 1000 Tlden votes
on account of alleged murder, riot and intlmi-
dation, preventing q fair and free election in
certain parishes. To perform this extraordi-
nary, even if just'fable work, in the face of
an armed and infuriated Democracy required
men of undaunted courage, and such courage
the Returning Board possessed. Il required,
\ also, that the Board should have assurances
I that the national exigency demanded its per-
formance; that the moral sentiment of tho
| North would approve it and that they them
selves would be protected from evil couse-
guenGss TO be apprehended from the violence of
mob-government, which was known would
ne established by one Nichols, pretender to
TIE office OF Governor against Stephen B.
p vckard, who was sure to be found to be elected
Go vernon if the Hayes electors should bs
found to have been chosen.
All these assurances were freely aud forei5ly
given by Mr.. Senator Sherman and his
T. 49,
Mr. j. e. l. leonard, and on more than one occa-
sion, that Ha yes and Packard should stand or
fall together A reported interview of Gov
ernor Hayes, December g. with Mr.. w Il.
Roberts of the New Orleans Times having
oecasioned alarm a. to the future course OF the
prospective President toward Southern Repub-
licans and the Louisa na and South Carolina
Governments, Governor Hayes, through his
private Secretary, Captain a. H. Lee, slnce
made Consul General to Elankfort, and Gen.
eral James M. Comfy of tbs OHIO State journal,
aimee made Minister to the Sandwich Islands,
denied the reported interview, and all ympathy
with the sentiments therein expressed. En-
couraged aud forced forward by these assur-
ances the Returning Board boldly performed its
duty, gave voice to the murdered Republicans
of the bull-dozed parishes of Louisiana, and
made Hayes President, and Packard Governor
of Louisiana, by titles indissolubly connected in
law, in morals, and by every rule of honor that
prevails among civilized men, The same ten
der regard for the Louisiana Republicans aud
for the result which they had achieved contin-
ued during the ensuing struggle in Congress.
The Returning Board were arrested and con-
fined at Washington by the Confederate House
of Representatives. Sick, and in prison, they
were visited by Senator Sherman and his asso-
ciates. and urged to stand firm until relief
should come from the advent to power Of the
President whom they had made Before the
Electoral Commission, to maintain and vindi-
cate their work. Governor Hayes personally
continued the employment of Messrs Matthews
and Shsllabarger, while Senator Sherman, from
his place in the Senate, on December 18th,
threatened negro instructions unless Hayes
should be counted in and the ''poor colored
men" placed under his devoted care:
There are other remedies, but do not like to dis
cuss them. We can teach the negroes that
they have an inherent right of selt-1efence.
roe negro might be taught especially in those
pa fishes where there three black men to one
Viii tnat he has the right of setdeteDce; but
who wishes to suggest, intimate, anticipate
such h. nrors? Who wishes 10 see war OF races?
Yet rat der than what has occurred in Louisiana
these men will learn . . that they can resent
these outr; Ves; that the negro defend his cabn
ais wife his children, from these outrages and that
he will be in stied by the laws of God and in
uelIing these assaults, whether they by day OF
night DO n u want to see this done fear it, and
vet it will come : unless you give to the he
rroag tba ri0bto rytlich are secured them the