The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-01-17

CHANDELIERS COUNTS.
His gDssihc Charges Against the Administers
tIOn Of President Hayes.

The Concord IN. H. Monitor, contains
the letter of VIM. E. Chandler in full.
From it is taken the following extract,
which sums up the principal points of
objection to President Hayes's action on
the Southern question;
l. Rutherford B. Hayes was elected
President by the Republican party, on
the platform of opposition to rebel rule
and a solid South and with pledges to
protect, to the extent of Federal power,
life, suffrage and all political rights at the
South was counted in as President only
by reason of rpecial pledges to the same
effect by his representatives and agents,
Senator Sherman and other Ohio ennis
saries, who particularly and emphatic
ally promised that he would recognize
and maintain the lawful State govern
ments of South Carolina and Louisiana,
and stand by Governors Chamberlain
and Packard.
II. Before the actual declaration of his
election, and to secure the same, delib-
crate written bargain was made in his
behalf by the same Senator Sherman and
.Iis associates, by which it was agreed
with Senator Gordon and other South
ern rebel Democrats, that when he be-
came President no attempt should be
made to enforce the above principles of
his party, but that the South should be
allowed to manage its own affairs in its
own way, and that in particular he would
abandon the lawful State governments
of louisiana and South Carolina, and re-
Cognize in their stead the mob govern.
ments of Wade Hampton and F. II. Mich
oils,
III. After his Inauguration, the bar.
gain was literally fulfilled; the United
States flag was disgracefully hauled down
in Columbia and New Orleans; the law.
ful governments notified to surrender to
rebel mobs, and, upon their hesitation,
deliberately and actively torn down by
his administration by unconstitutional
processes, and the use of Federal patron
age, vigorously welded by the same Sec
retary Sherman and his associates; the
mob governments of Hampton and Mich.
oils recognized, and solid South and
rebel rule established by the swift and
eager action ofhis administration.
Nv. All attempts to administer the
government upon the principles, by pro-
claiming which he had been elected and
counted in, were deliberately abandoned;
the South notified that it should not be
interfered with by his administration;
Southern Ku-Klux and negro murderers
1 released and amnestied by Presidential
order; the enforcement of Federal laws
at the South given up, or intrusted to
rebel Democratic hands; Senator Gordon
and his fellow-bargainers accepted as the
intimate and acknowledged advisers Of
the President, and the dispensers of the
Federal patronage; and the black and
white Republicans of the South merCi'
lessly surrendered to the insults, perse.
cutions and atrocities of their Democratic
enemies.
V. AS a necessary result of all this
the Republican party at the South was
disbanded, and no Republican votes were
cast in States where free ballot would
show large Republican majorities; the
Republican party at the North was par
alyzed wherever the advice of ofsupporterE
or apologists for the new policy was re-
quired; Republican defeats ensued where
it was endorsed; Republican victories
Only where it was repudiated; and with
&. lid South and divided North the
Confederate Democracy are marching
towards a national victory in 1880, while
President Hayes and Secretary Sherman
look on with as much indifference as il
they were in name, as they are in fact
allies of the Democratic party.