The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-01-03
THE ALLEGED BARGAIN.

uent f1AYeI Bn0tlld MAINTAIN his own
rightfulness of title ard stand bv the
men and principles Of his party. Had
he done so, in 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 re-
; cent fall elections. Instead of all this,
| what do We see? Almost the first act Of
the new administration was to fulfil q
| bargain that had been made during the
Presidential count by which, if Mr..
| Hayes should be President, the lawful
governments Of Louisiana and South
! Carolina were to be abandoned ard the
| mob governments in those States were to
be recognized and established. Certain
Democrats in the House Of Representa-
tives seeing that, by the recurring de;
cisions of the Electoral Commission and
Houses under the Electoral bill which
would surely be President, conceived the
plan of saving something from the wreck.
They had therefore threatened, by dila-
tory motions and riotous proceedings, 20
! break up the count, and then opened me-
gotiatiOns with such timid and too eager
ly expe Giant republicans as they could
find ready.
TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT.
They had succeeded beyond their san.
guino expectations. Senator Sherman
had visited Ohio and consulted Governor
Hayes. Mr. Henry Watterson, a Demo
cratic member and nephew of Mr.. STAN
ley Matthews, had acted as go-between !;
and on the one side Messrs. Matthews,
Charles Foster, John Sherman and James
A. Garfield, and on the other l.. @. G.
Lamar, John B. Gordon, f. J. Ellis,
Randall Gibson, E. A. Burke and John
Young Brown, had agreed
ErJt-That the count ehould not be
broken up in tho House, bat that Hayes
should be declared aud inaugurated
| President.
.Second-That upon HAYES accession
the troops should be withdrawn from
protecting Governors Chamberlain and
Packard, and that the new administra-
ton should recognize the governments of
Wade Hampton in South Carolina and
+. II. Nichols in Louisiana. BY certain
general and indefinite letters since given
TO the public by secret writing now in
the hands Of E. A. Burke, and in other
ways, the agreement was authenticated,
and President Grant was Immediately re-
quested by Governor Hayes counsel on
no account to recognize Packard or
Chamberlain, but TO leave the ultimate
decision as to their fate to the incoming
President.
CARRYING OUT THE TERMS.
After Inauguration the bargain was
speedily fulfilled. AS soon as The cleo.
toral votes of their States were safe Gov.
ernors Packard and Chamberlain had
been notified by Messrs. Matthews and
Evarts to get out. Governor Chamber
lain was now summoned to Washington
and informed that he must surrender.
He protested against his taking off. The
President hesitated, but Wade Hampton
demanded the performance of the bar
gain. Mr.. Matthews was sent for came
from Ohio, and within twenty four hours
the United States flag was ordered down
in Charleston and Governor Chamber
lain stamped out. AS to Louisiana, the
ful6lment proceeded more slowly, but
none the less surely. Packard had made,
March 2l, constitutional call for fed
eral aid, which it was difficult to with.
hold from one as surely Governor as
Hayes was President, and yet, there was
the bargain. AS q subterfuge, an nncon-
stitutional commission, consisting OF
Messrs. John NJ. Harlan, Joseph R.
Hawley, @. B. Lawrence. Wayne Nc.
Veagh and John 9. Brown, ives sent To
New Orleans instructed to gradually de-
stroy the Packard Legislature by 80.
duciog or forcing its members into the
Nicholls Legislature; but they proving
too stubbornly Republican, the commits.
I knIn tAI - H. IL
nothing would destroy Packard but the
actual order Withdrawing the troops. All
the word the President gave the order
sion returned triumphant to Washington
to be recognized of them, General
Harlan, by an appointment as Supreme
Court Judge; another, Mr.. Lawrence, by
the release of Jake Kchm, the great
whiskey operator and defrauder Of the
revenue at Chicago. Gen. Hawley was
offered the appointment of Chief Com.
missioner to the Paris Exhibition, but
declined because the salary was to be
only $4,000; and three offices were ten
dered to Mr.. McVeagh, but declined on
the ground that his signal services de-
manded more ample recognition. The
English mission was assigned him, Su!
circumstances have made its delivery in
expedient or impossible. One other hope
remained to Governor Packard; he had
o lawful court of justice, and he might
appeal to that. But there were two va.
cancies, and it required ali three of the
ludges-Ludeling, Leonard and John L.
King-to make quorum. Judge King
was Immediately appointed Collector 81
New Orleans Packard's court Wa 8 ..ck
down and the Nichols mob government
reigned supreme. The bargain was in
every way fulfilled, and Mr.. Burke had
no occasion, "a had been threatened, to
make public the secret agreement.
Hayes had been made President by the
fidelity and courage Of Packard aud
Chamberlain and their devoted followers,
and his administration had trampled
them down.
THE SOUTHERN POLICY.
In further pursuance of the bargain
made With the Southern Democrats the
new administration has adopted so.
fsalied Southern rriicy:
Nrst-Entireiy contrary to the an
nounced principles of the Republican
party.
| Sscond-Which he's been carried out by
the abandonment of all .ederal intention
and effort to protect life, property or suf-
fFage ut the South or to enforce the con.
stitutional amendments.
1nird-Which hes resulted in e. en-
forced dissolution Of the Republican par
ty at the South, and it's decentralization,
derison and defeat ct the North. :
THE Fs:D sRAL APPOINTMENTS.
The letter IS thencaforyartI rnaipIv do.