Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-25
HONORING A FRAUD.
\ Correspondence That Explains Its.

\ Correspondence That Explains Itself.
Boston, Dec. q. 1880.
DEAR SIR Only three persons have
ever been chosen president Of the United
States who have received degree in course
at Harvard university. These are John
Adams, john Quincy Adams and Pres:-
dent Hayes, who took our degree of
IL. 3. in regular course.
In Memorial hall. at Cambridge, are fine
portraits Of the Adamses, one by Copley.
and one, in part, by Stuart.
We have thought it would be a good
thing to obtain good portrait OF Pres-
dent Hayes, while he is yet president.
With this view We propose a subscrip-
t;on among the alumni, not to exceed in
any case ten dollars, So that the invitation
to to him to sit for his picture may come
from large number of his fellow gradu-
ates.
Will you join in that subscription ,
Please address either of the undersigned.
Truly yours, W. AMoRY,
AMOS \. LAWRENCE,
EDWARD E. HALE,
JOHN LOWELL.
JOSEPH II. CHoATE.
NEW YORK, January 81, 1881.
GENTLEMEN: have received your com
munication of the eth ult., inviting me 20
join in subscription to procure portrait
of Mr.. Rutherford Il. Hayes to place in
the Memorial hall of Harvard University
at Cambridge, along with the portraits Of
John Adams and John Quincy Adams,
presidents of the United States and grad
yates OF the university.
decline to join in such subscription.
l am not willing to do anything that may
be designed or construed us 4 compliment
to MIR. Hayes, or that may recognize his
tenure Of the executive office at Washing
ton as anything other than an event of dis
honor. lie was not chosen president. lie
was defeated in the election and then a
band of conspirators. Mr.. Hayes himself
conspiring and conniving with them, set
ting aside the constitution and the law,
and making use of forgery, perjury and
false counting, secured for Kim possession
of the presidency to which another man
had been elected and when he had got
possession Of it, his most scdulous care was
to repay with offices and emoluments those
authors, managers and agents of the con-
spiracy to whom he had been chiefly i'll
debted for it's infamous success.
Sooner than honOrably commemorate
such an event or do public homage to such
man, L be" You, gentlemen, with your
own hands first destroy the portraits of
John Adams and John Quincy Adams in
Memorial hall and then to razc to the
ground the hall itself.
How great an insult you are proposing
to the two ilustrious presidents of the
name Of Adams is made manifest by the
following words from the son of the one
and the grandson of the other
$ l think Mr.. Hayes was elected by Il
fraud, and | do not mean to have it said
that at the next election had forgotten it.
l do not say that Mr.. Hayes committed the
fraud, but it was committed by his party.
l have no emnity to Mr.. Hayes, but after
the fraud by which he became president !
could not vote for any persen put up on
the Republican side for president who did
not disavow the fraud committed. / would
not support any memler of that party
who had any sort of mixture with that
fraud. feel that the counting out is just
as much a fraud now as at the time it was
rerpetuated."
remain your very obedicnt servant,
CHARLES A. DANA.
Messrs. ". Armory, n. \. Lawrence,
Edward E. Hale, John Lowell, Joseph
II. CiIoate.