The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-01-27
A MISTAKEN MOVEMENT "A PRO-
POSED MEMORIAL OF DIsHONOR.
BosToN, Dec, q, lS,

BosToN, Dec, q, 1880
DEAR SIR--Only three persons have
ever been chosen President of the Uni
ted States who have received degree
in course at Harvard University. These
are John Adams, John Quincy Adams,
President Hayes, who took our degree of
LII D. in regular course.
In Memorial Hall, ac Cambridge, are
fine portraits OF the Adamses, one bv
Copley, and one, in part, by Stuart. We
have thought it would be good thing
to obtain a good portrait of President
Hayes while hs was yet President.
With this view we propose subscrip-
ton among the alumni, not to exceed in
any case $40, so that the invitation to
Rim to sit for his picture may come from
large number of his fellow graduates.
Will you join in that subsc .iption2
Please address either of the undersigned.
Truly yours,
W. AM1RY.
AMos A. LAWRENCE.
EDWARD E, HALE.
JOHN LOWELL.
JOSEPH H. CHoATE.
GENTLEMEN-I have received your
communication of the 9th, inviting me
to join in subscription to procure por-
trait of Mr.. Rutherford B. Hayes to put
in the Memorial Hall of Harvard Uni
versity at Cambridge, along with the
portraits Of John Adams and John Qlin-
cy Adams, Presidents of the United
States, and graduates of the University.
decline to join in such subscription
I am not willing to do anything that may
be designed or construed as a Compli-
ment to Mr.. Hayes, or that may recog.
nizs his tenure Of the executive Office at
Washington as anything other than an
event of dishonor, He was net chosen
President, He was defeated in the elec-
ton; and then a band Of Conspirators,
Mr.. Hayes himself Conspiring and con-
niving with them, setting aside the Con-
stitution and the law, and making use Of
forgery, perjury and false counting, Sc.
cured for him possession Of the Presi-
denCy to which another man had been
elected; and when he got possession Of
| it, his most sedulous care was to repay
with offices and emoluments those auth
ors, managers and agents Of the Conspir.
acy to whom he had been chiefly in.
debted for it's infamous success,
Sooner than honorably commemorate
such an event, or do public homage to
such a man, l beg you, gentlemen, with
your own hands first to destroy the p0r-
traits of John Adams and John Quincy
Adams in Memorial Hall, and then to
RI zs to the ground the hall ITSELF
How great an insult you are proposing
to the two illustrious 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;
II think Mr.. Hayes was elected by a
fraud, and do not mean to have it said
that at the next election l had FORGOTTEN
it. l do not say Mr.. Hayes committed
the fraud, but 1t was committed by his
party. have no enmity to Mr.. Hayes,
but after the fraud by which he became
President, / could not vote for any per-
son put up for President on the Repub.
lican side, who did not dissVoW the
fraud committed. l would not support
any member Of that party who mad any
sort Of mixture with that fraud. l feel
that the counting out is just as much a
fraud now as at the time it was perpetra.
ted"
remain your very obedient servant,
CHAS. A. DANA.
Messrs. W. Amory, A. A. Lawrence
Edward E. Hale, John Lowell, Joseph
II. Choate.