The Portland daily press., 1877-12-29
SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. 20.
A Formal Attack.
The President "Read Out" Of His Party.

alleged bargains made during the electoral
count, and their alleged fulfiiment BY the
adoption of the Presidents Southern policy"
After referring to the declarations of the Gin
cinnati convention, and of Governor Hayes's
letter Of acceptance, in regard to the protec.
ton of Southern citizens 10 the free enjoyment
OF all their rights, Mr.. Chandler asserts that
the Republican party, by the advice and pro-
curement of Governor Hayes, made "the ne
cessity OF keeping federal power in Republican
hands, aud using it for the protection of black
and white Southern Republicans" the main
issue of the Presidential campaign. He says
the bloody Shirt" as it is termed, was freely
waved, and Governor Hayes himself urged
prominent public men to put forward, as our
best argument, the dangers of rebel rule and
solid South. Mr.. Chandler then proceeds to
state that Governor Hayes not only pledged
himself to protect to the full extent of the fed
eral power life, suffrage and political rights in
the South, but was counted in as President only
by reason of special pledges given by Senator
Sherman and other Ohio emissaries, who par
ticnlarly and emphstically promised that he
would recognize and maintain the lawful State
governments of South Carolina and Louisiana,
and stand BY GovsInor. Chamberlain and
ments at considerable length, and proceeds to
make charges as follows:
Wisdom and honor, therefore. it seems to me,
clearly required that President Hayes should
maintain his own rightfulness of title, and
stand by the men and principles of his party
Had he done so, ia my belief the Democratic
cry of fraud would have been the merest folly.
The Republican party would have remained
dominant in every Northern state and in several
Southern states, and would have swept the
country in the recent fall elections. Instead of
all this what do we see2 Almost the first act
of new administration was to fulfil bargain
that had been made during the Presidential
count, by which, if Mr.. Hayes should be Pres-
dent, the lawful governments of Louisiana and
South Carolina were to be abandoned and the
mob governments of those states were to be
recognized and established.
Certain Democrats in the House of Represen-
tatives seeing that by the recurring decisions
OF the electoral commission and the regular
proceedings of the two Houses under the cleo
toral BILL which they had warmly supported,
Hayes would surely be President, conceived the
plan OF saving. something from the wreck.
They had, therefore, threatened by dilatory mo-
tions and riotous proceedings to break up the
count, and then opened negotiations with such
timid and too eagerly expectant Republicans as
yond their sanguine expectation. Senator
sherman had visited Ohio and consulted Gov
ernor hayes. Mr.. Henry Watterson, Demo-
cratic member and nephew of Mr.. Stanley Mat
one side Messrs. Matthews, Charles Foster,
John Sherman and James A. Garfield, ana on
the other L. Q Q. Lamar. John b. Gordon, E.
). Ellis, Randall Gibson, E. A. Burke and
John Young Brown had agreed First, that
the count should not be broken up in the house,
but that Hayes should be declared and inaug-
urated President; and second, that upon
Hayes's accession the troops should be with
and Packard, and that the new administration
should recognize the governments of Wade
Hampton in South Carolina and of f. T. Mich
oils In Louisiana.
since given to the public, by a secret writing
now in the bands of E. A. Burke, ar d in other
ways, the agreement was authenticated, and
President Grant was Immediately requested by
Governor Hayess counsel ON no account TO re-
cognize Packard or Chamberlain, but to leave
the ultimate decision as to their fate to the in
coming President. After Inauguration the bar
gain was speedily fulfilled. As soon as the
electoral votes of their States were safe, Gov
ernors Packard and Chamberlain had been no.
titled BY Messrs. Matthews and Evarts to get
out. Governor Chamberlain was now sum-
moned to Washington and informed that he
must surrender. He protested against his tax
ing off. The President hesitated, bat Wade
Hampton demanded the performance of the
bargain Mr.. Matthews was sent for; came
from OHIO. am within twenty-four hours the
United States flag was ordered down ia
Charleston, and Governor Chamberlain stamped
out.
4" As to Louisiana. the fuIflment preceded
more slowly but not the less surely. Packard
had made, March 81, a constitutional call for
federal aid, which it was difficult to withhold
from one as surely governor as Hayes was
President, and yet, there was bargain. As a
suoterfuge, an unconstitutional commission,
consisting of Messrs. John M. Harlan, Joseph
r. Hawley, G. B. Lawrence, Wayne McVeagh
and j. @. Brown was sent to New Orleans in
structed to gradually destroy the Packard legis-
lature by reducing or forcing its members into
%ba nhn1t 1o<xso1 nA, I,x<
stubbornly republican, the commission tele-
graphed to the President that nothing would
destroy Packard but actual order withdrawing
the troops. at tho word the President gave the
order; Packard was crushed, and the commits
sion returned triumphant to Washington to be
recognized-one of them, Gen. Harlan, by an
appointment as Supreme Court Judge; another,
Mr.. Lawrence. by the release of Jake Rhem,
the great whiskey conspirator and defrauder of
the revenue at Chicago. Gen. Hawley was Of
fered the appointment of chief commissioner to
the Paris Exhibition, but declined because the
salary was to be only $4,000; and three Offices
the ground that his signal servit es deman ded
moro ample recognition. The English mission
was assigned him, but circumstances have
made its delivery inexpedient or impossible.
:" One other hope remained to Gov Packard !;
he had lawful court of justice and might ap-
peal to that. But there were two vacancies,
and 1t required all three of the judges, Lude-
ling, Leonard and John E. King, to make a
pointed collector of New Orleans. Packard's
court was struck down, and the Nichols mob
government reigned supreme. The bargain
was ia every way fulfilled, and Mr.. Burke had
no occasion, as has been threatened, to make
public the secret agreement. Hayes had been
made President by the fidelity and courage of
Packard and Chamberlain and other devoted
followers, and his administration has trampled
them down.
SIN further pursuance of the bargain made
with the Southern Democrats the new admins
tration has adoped so-called Southern policy,
first entirely contrary to the announced prnci-
pies of the Republican party; second, which
has been carried out by the abandonment of all
federal intention and effort to protect life, prop
erty or suffrage at the South, or enforce the
constitutional amendments; and third, which
has resulted in the enforced dissolution of the
Republican party at the South and its democrat
ization, division and defeat at the North"
The letter is thencefor ward mainly devoted to
recapitulation of President Hayes acts and
utterances in the line Of the sc-called Southern
policy. Mr.. Chandler says, among other
things:--
t'As the policy of the Democratic party was
to be carried out at the South Southern Con-
federate general, Mr.. D. M. Key, who had op-
posed Hayes election. and in the Senate de-
nounced his title as fraudulent was appointed
as Postmaster General, and commenced the
distribution of the Southern post Office to rebel
Democrats. The negro murderers of Hamburg
and Ellenton had been indicted in the federal
courts of South Carolina The great and good
Hampton appeared for their release, and it was
accorded by the President in letter of May
IL, granting general amnesty to negro murder
ers as political offanders." To make immu nj
ty more certain, the policy of appointing as dis
trict attorneys and marshas men agreeable to
the white people of the South-that is Demo.
crats-was determined upon"
The appointments of Northrup as district
attorney for South Carolina, and Waldron as
marshal for Tennessee, are referred to, aud ex-
tended comment is made on that of Fitzsim-
mons as marshal for Georgia. in place of
Smythe, competent and honest Republican.
which was confirmed by the democratic sena-
tors votes and the vote of Stanley Matthews
alone. Senator Gordon's letter to W. A. buff
on this subject is also reviewed at length. MIR.
Chandler in the concluding portion Of his ad-
dress uses the following langusge:-
SIN view of these lameutable facts, it is the
duty of true Republicans to take prompt and
courageous action Silence is crime; acqul-
esceDce and inaction are political death Can
the Republican party of heroic achievements be
bound to an administration which is not free
agent, but is bound by bargain to Generals
Gordon, L. O. G. Lamar, Wade Hampton, and
other Southern democrats now in high Office
OnlV throuph the hlood of rnnrdarad EoanLI