The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-01-03
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The Dnr0nlw That g.et Hayes
Into the Preside tial CKssir.
We should like very much to publish
all Of the letter Of Hon w. E. Chan
dler, of New Hampshire, in which he
refers to the bargain made to allow
Hayes to become President, but have
not the space to spare. Mr.. Chandler,
addressed the letter referred To, to the
Republicans Of his State making men>
ton of numbers of explicit statements
concerning bargains made during the
Electoral count, and Of their fulfll>
ment by the adoption and fulfllment
of the Presidents Southern policy.
He asserts that the Republican party,
by the advise and procurement of Gov.
Hayes. made the necessity of keeping
Federal power in Republican hands,
and using it for the protection of black
and white Southern Republicans"
The main issue of the Presidential
campaign, Chandler says. was the
bloody shirt" rs it is called: it was
freely waived, and Governor Hayes
himself urged public men to pnt for
ward as onr best argument the dangers
of Rebel rule and Q solid South.
Chandler proceeds: Gov. Hayes not
only pledged himself to protect to the
full extent of the Federal power, life,
suffrage and political rights in the
South. but was counted in as President
only by reason of such special pledges
given by Senator Sherman and other
Ohio emissaries, who practically and
~emphatlcally promised that he would
}recognize apd maintain the lawful
State governments of South Carolina
and Louisiana. and Stand by Cows.
Chamberlain and Packard. Chandler
amplifies these statements at length.
and proceeds to make elaborate charges.
Almost the first act OF the new Admin
istratlon was to fulfill a bargain that
had been made during the Presidential
count, by which Mr.. Hayes should be
President, the lawful governments OF
Louisiana and South Carolina were to
be abandoned, and the mob govern
ments we're to be recognized and estab-
llshed. Certain Democrats in the
House of Representatives, seeing that
by the recurring decisions of the Elec-
toral Commission, and the regular pro
ceedings OF the two Houses under the
electoral bill, which they had warmly
supported. Hayes would surely become
President, had conceived the idea OF
saving something from the wreck they
had. therefore, threatened by dilatory
motions and riotious proceedings to
break mp the connt. and then opened
negotiations with such timid or too ex-
pectant Republicans as they could ind.
One Henry Watterson, a member of the
House and nephew of Stanley Mat.
thews. had acted as a go between.
Senator Sherman, in the meantime.
having visited Ohio and consulted Gov
ernor Hayes, and on one hand Matthews.
Charles Foster, John Sherman. Jas. A.
Garfield, and on the other L. Q. c.
Lamar, John B. Gordon, E. j.. Ellis.
Randall. Gibson. E A. Burke and
John Young Brown had agreed, first,
that the count should not be broken in
the House, but that Hayes should be
declared and inangurated President, and
second, that upon Hayes accession the
troops should be withdrawn from the
support of Chamberlain and Packard,
and that the new Administration
should recognize Wade Hampton and
Gen. Nichols. after the Inauguration.
The bargain was fully carried out, and
Cows. Packard and Chamberlain were
notified by Matthews and Evarts to gel
out. Chandler proceeds at great length,
noticing among other things the ap
pointmept of Key. who in the Senat.
denounced Hayes title as fraudulent,
to the Postmaster Generalship.