The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-01-03

w. e. Chandler, VINO was an actlVe
leader in the political campaing of1S76
in securing the election of Rutherford
B. Hayes to the Presidency, and who
took q leading part in defrauding the
people by counting him in and secur-
ing his Inauguration has made merci-
less attack upon the " President" in q
lengthy letter addressed "to the Re-
publicans of New Hampshire" in
which he gives detailed history Of
the great struggle and of the extraor-
binary means by which the great crime
of stealing the Presidency was accom-
plished. He charges Hayes with q
base abandonment of his party and the
principles to which he was pledged,
and with all the reverses and disasters
that have befallen it since his inaugu-
ration. As Chandler was one of the
conspirators and had an inside view of
the transactions he knows whereof he
speaks. The letter is an important
and interesting document, but our
space will permit us to give no more of
it this week than the following sum-
ming up of the writer. He says:
IneSe, C0ou, are tuc lt1CIS OcIOIc uS !.
I. Rutherford b. Hayes was elect
ed President by the Republican party
on the platform of opposition to rebel
rule and a solid South;an with pledges
to protect, to the extent of Federal pow
er, life, suffrage, aud the free exercise
of all political rights at the South; was
counted in as President only by reason
of special pledges to the same effect
given by his representatives and agents
Senator Sherman and ether Ohio ennis
saries, who particularly aud emphatic
ally promised that he would recognize
and maintain the lawful State Govern
ments of South Carolina aud LOuisia-
ma, and stand by Governors Chamber
lain and Packard.
II. Before the actual declaration OF
his election, and to secure the same, a
deliberate written bargain was made
in his behalf by the same Senator
Sherman and his associates, by which
it was agreed with Senator Gordon, and
other Southern rebel Democrats, that
when he should I've President 10 at
tempt should be made to enforce the
above principles of his party, but that
the South should be allowed to man
age its own affairs in its own way, and
that in. particular he would abandon
the lawful State Governments Of Lou
isiana and South Carolina, and recOg-
nize in their stead the mob Governs
ments of Wade Hampton and FL II.
Nichols. -...r
III. After his Inauguration, the
bargain was: literally fulfilled the
United States flag was disgracefully
hauled down in Columbia and New
Orleans; the lawful Governments no
tilted to surrender to rebel mobe, and
upon their hesitation, deliberately and
actively torn down by his Administers
ton by unconstitutional processes, and
the use Of Federal patronage, vigorous
ly welded by the same Secretary Sher'
man and his associates; the mob GOV:
ernments of Hampton and Nichollf
recognized; and Solid South and reb.
ell rule established by the swift and
eager action of his Administration.
". All attempts to administer the
Government upon the principles by
proclaiming which he had been elected
and counted in, were deliberately
Abandoned; the South notified that il
should not be interfered with by his
| administrations; SOuthernKu-Kluxa and
negro murders released and .amnesteC
! by Presidential order; the enforce
ment of Federal laws at the South Civ.
en- up, or jntruste,l to rebel Democrat
ic hands; Senator Gordon and his Eel
IOw-Dargafucrs accepted as the init
| mate and acknowledged advisers o.
the President and the dispOsers of Fed
eral patronage; and the black anu
white Republicans Of the South merci
lessly surrendered to the insults, per
secutions and atrocities of their Dem
Ocratic enemies.
". AS a necessary result OF all this
the Republican party at the South was
disbanded, and no Republican votes
were cast in. a State where free bailO,
| would show large Republican majOri.
ties; the Republican party at the North
| was paralyZed wherever the advice O
supporters or apOlOgists for the new
policy was needed; Republican defeats
ensued wherever it was indorsed; Re
publican victories only where it was
repudiated; and with solid South
| and divided North, the Confederate
Democrats are marching toward a na
tional victory in 1880, while President
Hayes and Secretary Sherman look OIL
| with as much Indifference as if they
| were in name, as they are in fact, allie.
of the Democratic party"
| The writer closes his letter by advis
ing the Republicans to throw over
board their Jonah and return to thu
old policy of sectional hate which *
cursed the country, but upon which
alone their triumphs aud hopes wer,
built.