The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-05
HAYES SOUTHERN POLICY.
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S5much needless and Saischievoais fuss
has been made about certain papti5, said
to be agreements made during the count
ing of the electoral vote between some
Southern Senators and Representatives
and Messrs. Stanley Matthews and Charles
Foster, that the last two gentlemen have
expressed their wish to have them made
public. They are given below, and it
will be seen ut once that they contain no
agreement or bargain, either ON the part
Of the friends Of Mr.. Hayes or on that Of
the Southern gentlemen who received
them. The question with che Southern
men was whether they should join the
Democratic flibusteFs in obstructing the
count, or whether they should, as it is
certain they were inclined to do, help to
carry out the electoral law in good faith.
In considering this question, which in
volyed resistance to the urgent demands
of many of their Northern party friends,
it was natural and proper that they should
inquire as to the effect Mr.. Hayes becom-
ing President was likely to have upon the
peaceable ard just settlement Of the
troubles | South Carolina and Louisiana.
They remembered that Mr.. Hayes had
promised in his letter of acceptance to
deal justly with these States, but fhey
remembered also that the political can.
vass hEd been carried en- without his re-
monstrsnoe on an entirely different bash
and they had an nndoub:ed right TO in
quire of his friends what were his real
opinions and what was likely to bo his
policy, and the more because some of the
Southern Democrats, were inclined at all
hazards to go with their party, and would
have done so had not the wisest and most
patriotic Of them influenced them other
wise.
Under these circumstance a number of
conversations and conferences vert held,
which resulted in the papers now pub
lished. The Southern men did not ask
for an agreement" nor did they make
OF attempt to make any bargain with Mr..
Hayes, with whom they had no commu.
nication, or with any one for him. They
known to be in his confidence and to be
possessed of his opinions on public af-
fairs, what in their judgment would be
euC tiCHSultat Va LILO lnO kOIGtSS III II.
Hayes became President. Messrs. Foster
and Matthews gave them their opinion IS
frankly as it was asked, and the event
elbows that they judged Mr.. Hayes right
ly, because in his inaugural message he
did confirm all that they said he was
likely to do, and announced a policy
which was and which remains entirely
satisfactory to the Southern men.
The principal documents are given by
John Young Brown in connection with a
narrative Of events pledging President
Hayes more strongly than the letters
| themselves
WARRINGTON, February &c.
7b Hon. John b. Gordon and Hon. John
Young Bro,rn:
GENTLEMEN: Referring to the con-
versation had with you yesterday, in
| which Governor Hayes policy as to the
status of certain Southern States was dis
cussed, We desire to say in reply'that we
can assure you in the strongest possible
manner of our great desire to have adop-
ted such policy as will give to the peo-
pie of the States of South Carolina and
Louisiana the right to control their own
affairs in their own way, and to say, fur
ther, that We feel authorized, from an
acquaintance with and knowledge of
Governor Hayes and his views on this
question, to pledge ourselves to you for
him that such will be his policy.
CHARLES FOSTER.