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The Compromise of 1877

The Republican Party Preferred Power
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"Doubtless the relentless violence that the terror squads meted out on Black voters

had something do to with the trend [above]. After the paramilitary campaign of 1868,

there were few 'open Radicals' (Black or White Republicans) in Pulaski County." 1

What Price The Presidency?

"What the South most needs is peace, and peace depends upon the supremacy of law. There can be no enduring peace, if the

constitutional rights of any portion of the people are habitually disregarded. All parts of the Constitution are sacred,

and must be sacredly observed the parts that are new no less than the parts that are old. The moral and material prosperityof the Southern States can be most effectually advanced by a hearty and generous recognition of the rights of all, by all a

recognition without reserve or exception." Rutherford B. Hayes, accepting the Republican Party Nomination for Presidency of

the United States, Columbus, Ohio - July 8, 1876 2


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In 1876 the Republican Party had been hurt by

financial corruption charges during the

presidency of Ulysses S. Grant and thus

needed a new candidate for the Presidency. 3

The safe liberal politics, party loyalty, and solid

war record of the Governor of Ohio, made

Rutherford Birchard Hayes the best hope for

the Republican Party in the 1876 presidential election. 4 In the end Hayes lost the

popular vote to Democrat Samuel J. Tilden. The count was 4,284,757 or 51% of

the vote for Tilden against 4,033,950 or 48% for Hayes. 5 However, in order to win a

candidate needed 185 electoral votes. 6 With 51% of the popular vote Tilden

controlled 184 electoral votes and with 48% of the popular vote Hayes controlled

165. 7 Nevertheless, Hayes became the 19th President of the United States (1877-

1881) in one of the most contentious, controversial, and morally bankrupt elections

in American history. 8 When the dust was settled, and the now infamous

Compromise of 1877 in the bag, Hayes had won the presidency by a single

electoral vote (185-184). 9 Yes, in 1876 the Republican Party controlled

the White House and the Senate, but at what price? In the aftermath, the

Compromise of 1877, gave power to a popular blackfaced Northerner

named "Jim Crow" and legitimized by "de jury" his racist political career

for the next eighty-nine (89) years. 10

The Republican Compromise Of 1877

"Reconstruction was ended by the Compromise of 1877, a morally flawed but historically consequential arrangement that put

Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House and removed federal troops from the South. This compromise consisted of an

agreement to drop the Negro problem from the agenda of national policy questions. Hayes called it the 'let alone' policy. It

was similar to what others before him had called 'popular sovereignty' and to what others after him have called 'benign neglect.'

In each case it meant the same thing: no issue of justice was at stake and, therefore, national policy was not required to address

the issue. Whatever the Negro problem was, it was not a public problem." Alan B. Anderson and George W. Pickering,

"Confronting the Color Line: The Broken Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago"11

"One of the strangest things about the career of Jim Crow was that the system was born in the North and reached an advanced

age before moving South in force." C. Vann Woodward, Author of "The Strange Career of Jim Crow" 12

The substance of the Compromise of 1877 13 stated that Southern Democrats

would recognize Hayes as president with the understanding that Republicans would

meet certain demands. Here's the deal.

The Republican Party pledged to

Remove All Federal Troops


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Removing federal troops from the South

would end the Radical Reconstruction Era

of the Republican Party and leave the "race

problem" in the racist xenophobic hands of

former Confederate (i.e., democratic-

controlled) state legislatures. As such this

clause enabled the Democratic Party to

regain the political control of the South that

they had lost at the end of the American

Civil War. In most of these states Black Codes 14 were reintroduced, Jim

Crow 15 was embraced and a large percentage of Black Americans lost the

right to vote in future elections.

Rebuild The Southern Economy

This clause required legislation to be passed in order to industrialize the South

and get the former Confederate States back on their feet after suffering such a

terrible loss during the Civil War.

Fund The Texas and Pacific Railroad

This clause is where it gets interesting. The

construction of a transcontinental railroad in

the South was the goal of the "Scott

Plan," 16 proposed by Thomas Alexander

Scott (the 'Railroad Prince'), an American

businessman who at the time was the fourth

president of what was the largest

corporation in the world, the Pennsylvania

Railroad. As a longtime friend of Samuel J.

Tilden, 17 the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, it was Scott who took

the leading role in crafting the Compromise of 1877.

Appoint A Southern Democrat To Hayes' Cabinet

This resulted in David M. Key, 18 the Democratic United States Senator from

Tennessee becoming the Postmaster General. Since Hayes was so narrowly

elected, this clause was not unusual or unexpected.

In exchange the Democrat Party pledged to

Accept Hayes' Presidency

The pledges were made, Hayes removed the troops, but the promises were

soon broken. Over the next twenty (20) years, Black Americans in the South

were systematically disfranchised until virtually none could vote. 19


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Respect The Rights Of Black Americans

Ultimately, once the restraining forces of the

Radical Republican Party were removed,

Jim Crow seized power and shameless

segregation ruled the day. Here's a case in

point: In Mississippi, with nothing to keep

the South from her predilection for lynching

Negroes, White paramilitary hate group

members no longer felt the need to disguise

themselves as they did in the hay days of

the First Ku Klux Klan (1865-1869). 20 So complete was the Democratic

Party's victory, by way of the Compromise of 1877, that Adelbert Ames, the

Republican Governor of Mississippi, fled the state rather than face

impeachment charges by the newly elected Democratic legislature. 21

The Compromise of 1877, also known as theWormley Agreement 22 was settled at the James

Wormely Hotel in Washington D.C., at the corner of

15th and "H" Northwest on Saturday, February 26th,

1877. How fitting it is to note here that

representatives of both the Republican and

Democratic Parties used a propriety owned by a

Black American in the North for the venue to reach an

agreement that sealed and signaled the Republican Party's

abandonment of Black Americans in the South (Ecclesiastes 1:9).

James Wormley 23 was the only Black American at the bedside ofAbraham Lincoln when he died and in his defense, took no part in

the decisions reached in the Compromise of 1877 and as a proprietor

only provided the hall.

The Republican Compromise Of 2012

"If I have the opportunity to serve as our nation's next president, I commit to doing everything in my power to cultivate, promote,

and support a culture of life in America." Willard Mitt Romney, "My Pro-Life Pledge," June 18th, 2011 24

During the American Civil War, the national

debt had increased by a staggering 4,000

percent (4000%). 25 After the war most White

Northerners, preoccupied with the economic

problems of unemployment and falling farm

prices, were less concerned about violent acts

of White Southerners against Black Americans in

the South. So by 1870, "Waving The Bloody

Shirt" 26 with the blood stains of carpetbaggers

(i.e., Northerners who moved to the South) whipped by the Ku Klux Klan had lost


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its appeal. Furthermore, by 1876 it was clear that the North was satisfied that

legislation such as the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments had

solved the "race problem" in the South and wanted the Republican Party to move

on from social issues to economic issues. 27This sounds so very familiar to me.

Today, the Republican Party, wanting to move on from social

issues to economic issues,28

is facing the same temptation tosatisfy the conscience of her socially conservative constituents

with a Pro-Life presidential candidate that has pledged to limit

abortion to only instances of rape, incest, or to save the life of

the mother. 29 This is the Republican Compromise of 2012.

Limiting abortion with an executive order that reinstates the Mexico City Policy,

with legislation that repeals, restricts, regulates, reduces and defunds abortion and

with the appointment of Supreme Court justices who support reversing Roe v. Wade

will not end abortion.

Until the Republican Party

"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to

improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is

perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana, The Life of Reason (5

volumes, 1905-1906) 30

"History is for human self-knowledge the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is

that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is." Robin George Collingwood, The Life of Reason (5 volumes,

1905-1906) 31

Abortion is a business, businesses are born

with a product and customers are the lifeblood

of businesses. Reducing abortion will not end

abortion. Removing government subsidies from

abortion providers will not end abortion.

Reversing the current direction in Washington

D.C. will not end abortion. Until the Republican Party embraces the biblical truth

that only human life is sacred from the beginning of our biological development

until death. Until the Republican Party understands that the only stronghold,

strategy and sadistic sanctuary the abortion industrial complex can retreat to, in

order to maintain their illegitimate air of credibility, is to portray itself as the only

option caring enough to help poor women in communities of color. Until theRepublican Party moves the hearts and minds of people in a way that meets the

physical, spiritual and emotional needs of women and children helpless, homeless,

hungry or without healthcare. Until the Republican Party learns to communicate

compassion in a way that helps the poor realize that the golden promises of

socialized healthcare only serve to hide the huge economic loss those social

programs will cost their children and grandchildren in the future for putting these

programs on the government's credit card. Until the Republican Party fiscal

conservatives unite with her social conservatives on the common ground of


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abortion's $45 trillion dollar cost to our country 32 (please note, that's roughly

three times our national debt) and build a strong solidified party presence in

America

History will repeat itself.

Brothers, we really need to talk.

Reference(s):

01. Mark V. Wetherington "Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction Piney Woods Georgia" (http://bit.ly/KLLrsV).

02. Rutherford B. Hayes, "Letter Accepting the Republican Party Nomination for Presidency of the United States" Columbus, Ohio

- July 8, 1876, The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center (http://bit.ly/KJiIlO).

03. Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Administration Scandals, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/cAr5ZH).

04. Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of The United States, The White House (http://1.usa.gov/btOz9q).

05. United States Presidential Election, 1876, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/ZO3I0).

06. United States Presidential Election, 1876, "Electoral disputes", Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/dlZtm3).

07. Electoral Commission (United States), Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/KUw4ys).

08. Ibid.

09. Ibid.

10. C. Vann Woodward, "The Strange Career of Jim Crow" (http://bit.ly/JJ5Miv). See also Kevin C. Murphy, "Orals Reading

Notes: The Strange Career of Jim Crow, C. Vann Woodward" (http://bit.ly/Jx12xK).

11. Confronting the Color Line: The Broken Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago , by Alan B. Anderson, George

W. Pickering, University of Georgia Press, 528 pages (http://bit.ly/La6nXn).

12. The Origins of "Jim Crow" Laws, The 1898 Wilmington Institute for Education and Research Understanding The Conflict andIts Origins (http://bit.ly/Kr8BAb).

13. Eric Hunter, The Compromise of 1877 (http://bit.ly/Kb5EYs). See also Compromise of 1877, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/8nfVbq)

and "The Second Corrupt Bargain," Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/JLMnQ0).

14. Black Codes (United States), Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/4mZM5k). See also See also JimCrowHistory.Org Glossary: Black

Codes (http://bit.ly/MB7swg).

15. Ronald L. F. Davis, Ph. D., "Creating Jim Crow: In-Depth Essay" (http://bit.ly/wfZyBG). See also "The Rise and Fall of Jim

Crow", Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) - Educational Broadcasting Corporation (http://to.pbs.org/LaDc9j).

16. Thomas A. Scott, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/JLozLZ).

17. Re-Assessing Tom Scott, the 'Railroad Prince', by T. Lloyd Benson and Trina Rossman, Furman University

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18. David M. Key, Biography, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/K5Vuch).

19. American President: Rutherford B. Hayes, "End of Reconstruction," The Miller Center (http://bit.ly/K8Jrtl).

20. Op. cit., Ronald L. F. Davis, Ph. D., "Creating White Supremacy from 1865 to 1890".

21. Ibid.

22. Wormley Agreement, "African-American Business Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary," by John N. Ingham, Lynne B.

Feldman, Greenwood Publishing Group, Page 710 (http://bit.ly/LvCmXI). See also the "Infamous Final Scene of The Crime of

1876?" by Nicholas E. Hollis (http://bit.ly/bpFP8h).

23. James Wormley, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/JxuX3d). See also James Wormley Family Archive, PBS Antiques Roadshow

(http://to.pbs.org/JxwCFW).

24. My Pro-Life Pledge, Mitt Romney, Romney for President, Inc., June 18, 2011 (http://mi.tt/l7wEg1).

25. Op. cit., American President: Rutherford B. Hayes, "Money and the Economy," The Miller Center.

26. The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox, by Stephen Budiansky, Penguin Publishers, Prologue, Page 2

(http://bit.ly/KGKPWO). See also "Waving The Bloody Shirt, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/5ZIaQy).

27. Confronting the Color Line: The Broken Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago, Alan B. Anderson, George W.

Pickering, University of Georgia Press, Page 25 (http://bit.ly/K5ACjM).

28. California GOP Out Of Sync With Most State Voters, by Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, Posted Friday, February

24th, 2012 (http://bit.ly/K5EJMR). See also For Republican, Social Issues Are Losers, by Julian Zelizer, CNN Contributor,

Posted Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 (http://bit.ly/AgyAuI).

29. Op. cit., My Pro-Life Pledge, Mitt Romney, Romney for President, Inc., June 18, 2011.

30. George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, Chapter XII, 1905 US (Spanish-Born) philosopher (1863 1952)

(http://bit.ly/eRx9Sa).

31 Robin George Collingwood, a British philosopher and historian and author the book "The Idea of History" (http://bit.ly/1sE3C)

and (http://bit.ly/JLYT22). See also "Learning from History" (http://bit.ly/JjHX1y).

32. Dennis M. Howard, "Economic Impact of Abortion" The Movement for a Better America, Inc. (http://bit.ly/10rYIN).

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