The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-02
". e. CHANDLER
Is Out in an Attack Upon Rutherford
B. hayes.
The Facts i'm Regard TO the Bargain ami
Sale.
special Dispatch to the Chicago Times.I

declaration of the Cincinnati convention
and Hayes letter of acceptance, and says the
republican party, by the advice and procure
ment of Governor Hayes, made the necessity
OF keeping the federal power in republican
hands and using il for the protection of
black and southern republicans the main
issue of the presidential campaign.
1t 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
danger of rebel Tlle and solid south. In
this connection it quotes several expressions
from Governor Hayes letter of November 3,
1876, when the latter
THOUGHT HIMSELF DEFEATED,
and said: 81 do not care for myself but
do care for the poor colOred men of the
south. Northern men cannot live there, and
will leave. The southern men will prac-
tically treat the constitutional amendments
as nulllties, and then the coiored mans fate
will be worse than when he was in slavery
That is the only reason l regret that the
news is as it is Mr. Chandler then pro-
ceeds to say that Governor Hayes not only
pledged himself TO protect to the full extent
of federal 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 emissarles,
who particularly and emphatically promised
that he would recognize and maintain the
lawful state governments of South Carolina
and Louisiana, and stand by Governors
Chamberlain and Packard. The letter then
charged that the confederate brigadiers
forced
ANOTHER BARGAIN
out OF Hayes by filibustering. The bargain
was made by the following parties Messrs.
Matthews, John Sherman and John A Gar
II -. a ~
John L. Gordon, Z. J. Ellis, Randall Gibson,
e. A. Burke and John Young Brown with
Henry Watterson, Stanley Matthews
nephew, as go-between. After the inau-
gurant the bargain was speedily fulfilled. As
soon as the electoral votes of their states
were safe, Governors Packard and Chamber
lain had been notified by MeSsrs Matthews
lain was now summoned to Washington and
informed that
HE MUST SURRENDER.
He protested against his taking of. The
president hestated but Wade Hampton de-
manded the performance OF the bargain.
Mr.. Matthews was sent for to come from
Ohio, and within 81 hours the United States
flag was ordered down in Charleston, and
Governor Chamberlain stamped out. As to
Louisiana the fulfillment proceeded more
slowly, but none the less surely. Packard
had made on March p a constitutional ap-
peal for federal aid which it was difficult to
withhold from one as surely governor as
Hayes was president, and yet he was refused
As subterfuge,
An UNCONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION
consisting of J. NJ Harlan, Joseph r.
Hawley, C. B. Lawrence Wayne McNeagh,
and Jual Brown was sent TO New Orleans
instructed 70 gradually destroy the Packard
legislature, but they proving too stubborn.
The republican commission telegraphed 20
the president that nothing would destroy
Packard but an actual order Withdrawing
the troops. At the word the president gave
the order, Packard crushed, and the
commission returned triumphant TO wash
ington to be
RECoGNIzED,
one of them, General Harlan, by an appoint
ment as supreme court judge; and another,
Mr.. Lawrence, by the release of Jake Rehm,
the great whisky operator and defraucer of
| the revenue at Chicago. General Hawley
was offered the appointment of chief COM
| missioner TO the Paris exhibition, bat de-
clined because the salary was to be only
| s., 900. Three Offices were rendered TO Mr..
McYeagh, but declined on the ground that
his services demanded more ample recogni-
ton. The English mission was assigned
him, but circumstances have made its de-
livery inexpedient or impossible. One
other hope remained to Governor Packard.
He bad
A LAWFUL COURT
| % Justice, and he might appeal to that but
there were no vacancies, and it required all
| three OF the judges, Ludeling, Leonard and
John f. King to make a quorum. Judge
King was Immediately appointed collector
of New Orleans. Packard's court was struck
down and Nichols mob government reigned
supreme. The bargain was in every way
| fulfilled, and the democrats had no occa-
| sion, 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 pur-
suance of the bargain made with the south
| ern democrats the new administration has
adopted
so cALbED SOUTHERN PohICY
first, entirely contrary to the announced
| principles of the republican party; second,
| which has been carried out by the abandon
| ment of ali federal intention and effort to
| protect life, property or suffrage at the
south, or to enforce the constitutional
amendments; third, which has resulted in
| the enforced dissolution OF the republican
party at the south and Its Generalization,
| division and defeat at the north Then, after
a thorough review of all Hayes violations of
the civil service rules, the letter closes with
fraDkappeal to the republicans OF the north to
REBEL AGAINST HAYES,
saying: SILENCE Is a crime. Acquiesence
and inaction are political death. Can the
republican party of heroic achievement be
| bound to an administration which is not a
| free agent, but which is bound by bargain
to Gen. Gordon, L. q. c.. 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 EAyes end
Packard were elected simultaneously and
held
BY THE SANE TITLE,
or that when Hayes abandoned and tramPled
down Packard he put an irreaovabls stain
upon his title. The republican party has
lived long and survived many assaults and