The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-01-04
WAR ON THE PRESIDENT.
Letter from William r.. Chandler tn the
New Hampshire Republicans.
Washington Telegraml

Washington Teegram.l
A remarkable letter has made its appearance,
signed by w. L. Chandler, which IN regarded
as stalwart Republican manifesto against the
President. The letter recites first the decara-
ton of the Cincinnati Convention and Hayes
letter Of acceptance, and says the Republican
party, by the advice and procurement of Gov.
Hayes, made the necessity of keeping the Fed
eral power in Republican hands, and using ii
for the protection OF black and Southern Re-
publicans, the main issue OF the Presidential
campaign. 1t says the bloody shirt. as it Ia
termed, was freely waved, and Gov. Hayes
himself urged prominent public men to put
forward as our best argument the danger Of
rebel rule and a solid South. In this connec-
ton it quotes several expressions from Gov.
Hayes letter Of Nov. 8, 1876, when the latter
thought himself defeated and said:
do not care for myself, but do for the
poor coored men of the South. Northern men
cannot live there and viii leave The southern
people viii practically treat the constitutional
amendments utilities, and then the colored
mans fate will be than when he was in elav-
cry. That ia the only reason / regret that the
news is az 1t ia.
Mr.. Chandler then proceeds TO say that
Gov Hayes not only pledged himself to protect,
10 the fun extent of Federal power, life, suffrage
and political rights in the South, but counted
in IA President only by reason OF special pledges
given by Senator Sherman and other Ohio emissa-
ries, who particularly and emphatically promised
that he would recognize and maintain the lawful
State Governments of South Carolina and Louisiana
aud stand by Cows. Chamberlain and Packard.
The letter then charges that tho Confederate
BrigGdiers forced another bargain out of
Hayes by fiibustering. The bargain was made
by the following parties: Messrs. Matthews,
John Sherman, and John A. Garfield, and on
the other hand l.. Q. @. Lamar, John b. Cor
don, Il. j. Ellis, Randall Gibson, Il. A. Burke,
and John Young Brown, with Henry Waiter
son, Stanley Matthews nephew, as a go-be-
tween.
Alter the inaugural the bargain was speedily full
flied. Az the electoral votes of their States
were safe, Cows. Packard and Chamberlain had been
notified by Messrs Matthews and Evarts to get out.
Gov. Chamberlain was now summoned TO Washing
ton and Informed that he must surrender. He pro-
tested against his taking off, The President hes-
tated, but wade hampton demanded the perform
ance OF the bargain. Mr.. Matthews was sent
for TO come from Ohio, and within twen-
ty-four hours the United States flag was
ordered down in Charleston, and Gov.
Chamberlain stamped out. As to Louisiana
the fulillment proceeded more slowly but none the
less surely. Packard had made on March II a con-
stitutional appeal for Federal aid, which it was
difficult to withhold from one as surely Governor
Hayes was President, and yet he was refused. As
a subterfuge, an unconstitutional commission, con-
ssting Of J. NJ. Harlan, Joseph II. Hawley, G. b.
Lawrence, Wayne McVeagh, and Jual Brown, was
sent To New Orleans instructed 20 gradually destroy
the Packard Legislature, but, they proving too
stubborn, the KcpuDlcan commission telcgrapneQ
10 the President that nothing would destroy Pack
ard but actual order Withdrawing the troops
at the word the President gave the order, Packard
was crushed and the commission returned tri-
umphant TO Washington to be recognized, one
of them Gen. Harlan, by an appointment as
supreme Court Judge and another, MIR. Law
renee, by the release OF Jake RChm, the great
whisky operator and defrauder of the revenue at
Chicago. Gen. Hawley was offered the appoint
ment of Chief Commissioner to the Paris Exhibit
ton. but declined because the salary 10 be only
/
Veagh but declined on the ground that his services
demanded more ample recognition. The English
mission was assigned him, but circumstances have
made its delivery nexpedent or impossible. One
other hope remained TO Gov Packard. He had law
ful court of justice, and he might appeal to that,
but there we're tive vacancies, aud IL required all
three of the Judges, Ludeling Leonard and John
f. King, to make quorum. Judge King was inl-
mediately appointed Collector OF New Orleans
Packards court was struck down, and Nichols mob
government regned supreme. The bargain was in
every way fulfilled, and the Democrats had no oc-
casion, as had been threatened, to make public
the secret agreement Hayes had been
courage of Packard and Chamberlain, and
their devoted followers and his administration had
trampled them down. In the further pursuance of
the bargain made with the Southern Democrats the
new administration has adopted so-called South
ern policy first entirely contrary TO the announced
principles of the Republican party; second which
has been carried out by the abandonment of all
Federal intention and effort TO protect life, prop
erty or suffrage at the South. or to enforce the
consutuuonal amendments tnlrd, Wnlcn mas re-
suited in the enforced dissolution of the Republic
can party at the South. and its decentralization, di-
vision and defeat at the North.
The letter concludes:
Silence is a crime. Acquiescence and inaction
are political death. Can the Republican party of
heroic achievements be bound to an administration
which is not free agent, but which is bound by a
bargain to Gen. Gordon, l.. q. G. 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 Hayes and Packard were elected smulta-
neousy and held by the same title and that when
Hayes abandoned and trampled down Packard he
put an rremovable stain upon his title? The Re-
publican party has lived long and survived many
assaults and many treasons only because IL has been
party founded upon high principles, animated by
lofty sentiment, courageously acting up to noble
convictions. If 1t now disgraces its record and in
dorses or fails TO repudiate Hayes surrender its
voters viii leave IL 10y thousands, it's days are num-
bercd, and it viii die a deserved and dishonored
death.