The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-01-03
WAR ON THE PRESIDENT.
Letter from William E. Chandler to the
New Hampshire Republicans.
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New Hampshire Republicans.
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remarkable letter has made its appearance,
signed by W. E. Chandler, which is regarded
as stalwart Republican manifesto against the
President. The letter recites first the declara-
ton of the Cincinnati Convention and HAYES
letter of acceptance, and says the Republican
party, by the advice and procurement of Gov.
Hayes, made the necessity of keeping the Fed
eral power in Republican hands, and using it
for the protection Of black and Southern Re
publicans, the main issue of the Presidential
campaign. It says the bloody shirt. as it is
termed, was freely waved, and Gov. hayes
himself urged prominent public men to put
forward as our best argument the danger of
rebel rule and a solid South In this connec-
ton it quotes several expressions from Gov
Hayes letter of Nov. s, 1876, when the latter
thought himself defeated, and said:
do not care for myself, but do care for the
poor coored men Of the South. Northern men
cannot live there and will leave. The Southern
people will practically treat the constitutional
amendments nullities and then the colored
mans fate will be than when he was in slav-
cry. That is the only reason I regret that the
news is as it is.
Mr.. Chandler then proceeds to say that
Gov. Hayes not only pledged himself to protect
to the full extent of Federal power life SUFFRAGE
and political rights in the South, but counted
In as President only by reason of special pledges
given by Senator Sherman and other Ohio ernissa-
ries, who particularly and emphatically promised
that he would recognize and maintain the lawful
State Governments of South Carolina and Louisiana
and stand by Cows. Chamberlain and Packard
The letter then charges that the Confederate
Brigadiers forced another bargain out of
Hayes BY flibustering. The bargain was made
by the following parties: Messrs Matthews
John Sherman, and John A. Garfield, and on
the other hand L. @. c. Lamar, John B. Cor
don, o. J. Ellis, Randall Gibson, e. A. Burke
and John Young Brown, with Henry Waiter
son. Stanley Matthews nephew, as a go-be-
tween.
After the inaugural the bargain was speedily full
flied. AS the electoral votes of their States
were safe, Cows. Packard and Chamberlain had been
notified by Messrs. Matthews and Evarts to get out.
Gov Chamberlain now summoned to Washing
ton and informed that he must surrender. He pro-
tested against his taking Off The President hest
tated, but Wade Hampton demanded the perform
for to from Ohio, and within TWEEN
ty-four hours the United States flag was
ordered down in Charleston, and Gov.
Chamberlain stamped out. AS to Louisiana
the fulfillment proceeded more slowly but the
less surely. Packard had made on March IL a con-
stitutiOnal appeal for Federal aid, which it was
difficult to withhold from one as surely Governor
as Hayes was President and yet he was refused. as
a subterfuge, unconstitutional commission, con-
sisting of j. M. Harlan, Joseph r. Hawley, C, B.
Lawrence, Wayne McVeagh, and Jual Brown was
sent to New Orleans instructed TO gradually destroy
the Packard Legislature, butt they proving too
stubborn, the Republican commission teegraphed
TO the President that nothing would destroy Pack
ard but actual order withdrawing the troops
At the word the President gave the order, Packard
was crushed, and the commission returned tri-
umphant to Washington to be recognized, one
OF them, Gen. Harlan, by an appointment as
Supreme Court Judge; and another, Mr.. Law
renee, by the release of Jake Rehm, the great
whisky operator and defrauder of the revenue at
Chicago. Gen. Hawley offered the appoint
ment of Chief Commissioner to the Paris Exhibit
tlon but declined because the salary was to be only
$4,000. Three offices were rendered to Mr.. Nc
Veagh, but declined the ground that his services
demanded more 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 law
full court of justice, and he might appeal to that,
but there were two vacancies, and it required all
three OF the Judges, Ludeling, Leonard, and John
Il. King, to make quorum. Judge King i'm
mediately appointed Collector Of New Orleans.
Packards court was struck down, and Nichols mob
government regned supreme The bargain was in
every way fulfilled, and the Democrats had no oc-
casion, as had been threatened, to make public
the secret agreement. Hayes had been
made President by the fidelity and
courage of Packard and Chamberlain, and
their devoted followers, and his administration had
trampled them down. In the further pursuance Of
the bargain made with the Southern Democrats the
ern policy, first, entirely contrary to the announced
principles 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 to enforce the
constitutional amendments third, which has
suited in the enforced dissolution of the RepubE-
party at the South. and it's decentralization di-
vision and defeat at the North.
The letter concludes
Silence is crime. Acquiescence and inaction
political death. Can the Republican party of
heroic achievements be bound to an administration
which is not free agent, but which is bound by
bargain to Gen. Gordon, L. @. G. Lamar, Wade
Hampton, and other Southern Democrats now in
high office only through the blood of murdered
Republicans? Does not every voter in the land
know that Hayes and Packard were elected simulta-
neously and held by the same title, and that when
Hayes abandoned and trampled down Packard he
put an irremovable stain upon his title? The Re-
publican party has lived long and survived many
assaults and many reasons only because it has been
party founded upon high principles, animated by
lofty sentiment, courageOusly acting up to noble
convictions. If it disgraces its record and in
dorses or fails to repudiate Hayes surrender its
voters will leave it by thousands its days num-
bered, and it will die deserved and dishonored
death.