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

break up the count, and then opened ne
gotiations with such timid and too eager
" expectant Republicans as they could
find ready.
TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT.
They had succeeded beyond their san.
guine expectations. Senator Sherman
had visited Ohio and consulted Governor
Hayes. MIR. Henry Watterson, 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. Q. G.
Lamar, John B. Gordon, E. j. Ellis,
Randall Gibson, E. A. Burke and John
Young Brown, had agreed:
Fsrst-That the count should not be
broken up in the House, but that Hayes
should be declared and inaugurated
President.
Sscond-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the troops should be withdrawn from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
F. n. 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 elec-
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 of. 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
fll6lment proceeded more slowly, but
none the less surely. Packard had made,
March 81, 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 subterfuge, an uncon-
stitutional commission, consisting of
Messrs. John NJ. Harlan, Joseph R..
Hawley, G. B. Lawrence, Wayne Nc
Veagh and John G. Brown, was sent to
New Orleans instructed to gradually de-
stroy the Packard Legislature by Sc
ducing or forcing its members into the
Nichols Legislature; but they proving
too stubbornly Republican, the commits
sion telegraphed to the President that
nothing would destroy Packard but the
actual order Withdrawing the troops. At
the word the President gave the order !;
Packard was crushed, and the commits
sion returned triumphant to Washington,
to be recognized-one of them, General
Harlan, by an appointment as Supreme
Court Judge; another, Mr.. Lawrence, by
the release of Jake Kehm, 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, but
circumstances have made its delivery in
expedient or impossible. One other hope
remained to Governor Packard; he had
a lawful court of justice, and he might
appeal to that. But there were two va
cancies, and it required all three of the
judges-Ludeling, Leonard and John E.
King-to make quorum. Judge King
was Immediately appointed Collector Of
New Orleans Packard's court was struck
down and the Nichols mob government
reigned supreme. The bargain was in
every way fulfilled, and Mr.. Burke had
no occasion, 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.
THE SOUTHERN POLICY.
In further pursuance of the bargain
made with the Southern Democrats the
new administration has adopted 30
called Southern policy:
Fsrst-Entirely contrary to the an.
nounced principles of the Republican
party.
iSecond-Which has been carried out BY
the abandonment of all federal intention
and effort to protect life, property or suf-
frage at the South or to enforce the con-
stitutional amendments.
Third-Which has resulted in the en-
forced dissolution of the Republican par
ty at the South, and its Generalization,
derision and defeat at the North.
THE FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS.
The letter is thenceforward mainly de-
voted to recapitulation of President
Hayes acts and utterances in the line of
the so.called Southern policy. Mr..
Chandler says, among other things:
GAS the policy of the Democratic party
was to be carried out at the South q
Southern Confederate General, Mr.. ID.
M. Kew who had opposed Hayes' elec-