For the record:
The Commission consisted or 15 members, not 10. (Eight Republicans, 7 Democrats.) It was the Commission that voted, not the Legislature, and it was not hung.
"After a series of votes along strict party lines, the commission awarded Hayes all three of the contested states...making him the winner by a single electoral vote."
What's true is that it needed some backroom horse-trading to get the Democrats to accept the vote. Otherwise war threatened to break out again.
"Hayes agreed to cede control of the South to Democratic governments and back away from attempts at federal intervention...as well as place a Southerner in his cabinet. In return, Democrats would not dispute Hayes’s election, and agreed to respect the civil rights of Black citizens (!)."
This was the Compromise of 1877. Hayes took office without incident and Reconstruction ended. So yes, it WAS a dirty deal, and Hayes was a kind of Gilded Age RINO with Big Money backing who just wanted to get elected. Did we fight a war to bring Reconstruction only to abandon Reconstruction so as to prevent another war?
https://www.history.com/news/reconstruction-1876-election-rutherford-hayes
We're at a very similar crossroads now. Except that WE have the righteous cause and casus belli. There is NOT going to be a Compromise of 2021.
For the record:
The Commission consisted or 15 members, not 10. (Eight Republicans, 7 Democrats.) It was the Commission that voted, not the Legislature, and it was not hung.
"After a series of votes along strict party lines, the commission awarded Hayes all three of the contested states...making him the winner by a single electoral vote."
What's true is that it needed some backroom horse-trading to get the Democrats to accept the vote. Otherwise war might break out again.
"Hayes agreed to cede control of the South to Democratic governments and back away from attempts at federal intervention...as well as place a Southerner in his cabinet. In return, Democrats would not dispute Hayes’s election, and agreed to respect the civil rights of Black citizens (!)."
This was the Compromise of 1877. Hayes took office without incident and Reconstruction ended. So yes, it WAS a dirty deal, and Hayes was a kind of Gilded Age RINO with Big Money backing who just wanted to get elected. Did we fight a war to bring Reconstruction only to abandon Reconstruction so as to prevent another war?
https://www.history.com/news/reconstruction-1876-election-rutherford-hayes
We're at a very similar crossroads now. Except that WE have the righteous cause and casus belli. There is NOT going to be a Compromise of 2021.
For the record:
The Commission consisted or 15 members, not 10. (Eight Republicans, 7 Democrats.) It was the Commission that voted, not the Legislature, and it was not hung.
"After a series of votes along strict party lines, the commission awarded Hayes all three of the contested states...making him the winner by a single electoral vote."
What's true is that it needed some backroom horse-trading to get the Democrats to accept the vote. Otherwise war might break out again.
"Hayes agreed to cede control of the South to Democratic governments and back away from attempts at federal intervention...as well as place a Southerner in his cabinet. In return, Democrats would not dispute Hayes’s election, and agreed to respect the civil rights of Black citizens (!)."
This was the Compromise of 1877. Hayes took office without incident and Reconstruction ended. So yes, it WAS a dirty deal, and Hayes was a kind of Gilded Age RINO with Big Money backing who just wanted to get elected. Did we fight a war to bring Reconstruction only to abandon it so as to prevent another war?
https://www.history.com/news/reconstruction-1876-election-rutherford-hayes
We're at a very similar crossroads now. Except that WE have the righteous cause and casus belli. There is NOT going to be a Compromise of 2021.
For the record:
The Commission consisted or 15 members, not 10. (Eight Republicans, 7 Democrats.) It was the Commission that voted, not the Legislature, and it was not hung.
"After a series of votes along strict party lines, the commission awarded Hayes all three of the contested states...making him the winner by a single electoral vote."
What's true is that it needed some backroom horse-trading to get the Democrats to accept the vote. Otherwise war might break out again.
"Hayes agreed to cede control of the South to Democratic governments and back away from attempts at federal intervention...as well as place a Southerner in his cabinet. In return, Democrats would not dispute Hayes’s election, and agreed to respect the civil rights of Black citizens (!)."
This was the Compromise of 1877. Hayes took office without incident and Reconstruction ended. So yes, it WAS a dirty deal, and Hayes was a kind of Gilded Age RINO with BIg Money backing who just wanted to get elected. Did we fight a war to bring Reconstruction only to abandon it so as to prevent another war?
https://www.history.com/news/reconstruction-1876-election-rutherford-hayes
We're at a very similar crossroads now. Except that WE have the righteous cause and casus belli. There is NOT going to be a Compromise of 2021.
For the record:
The Commission consisted or 15 members, not 10. (Eight Republicans, 7 Democrats.) It was the Commission that voted, not the Legislature, and it was not hung.
"After a series of votes along strict party lines, the commission awarded Hayes all three of the contested states...making him the winner by a single electoral vote."
What's true is that it needed some backroom horse-trading to get the Democrats to accept the vote. Otherwise war might break out again.
"Hayes agreed to cede control of the South to Democratic governments and back away from attempts at federal intervention...as well as place a Southerner in his cabinet. In return, Democrats would not dispute Hayes’s election, and agreed to respect the civil rights of Black citizens (!)."
This was the Compromise of 1877. Hayes took office without incident and Reconstruction ended. So yes, it WAS a dirty deal, and Hayes was a kind of RINO who just wanted to get elected. Did we fight a war to bring Reconstruction only to abandon it so as to prevent another war?
https://www.history.com/news/reconstruction-1876-election-rutherford-hayes
We're at a very similar crossroads now. Except that WE have the righteous cause and casus belli. There is NOT going to be a Compromise of 2021.