The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 29, July 1925 - April, 1926 Page: 303
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Bryan-Hayes Correspondence
"I went to Washington and was his guest at the White House
during the adjustment of the troubles of Louisiana and South Caro-
lina. He confided in and trusted me. He told me then what his
difficulties were, and that they were inherited from his predecessor.
He said: 'It is not my place, but that of the legislature of each
State, to determine questions which circumstances bring here to me
for my action. I am determined that the legislature shall not be
trammeled by the military, for the troops shall be removed as soon
as I am informed the legislature is organized.' At this day one
can scarcely realize or appreciate the courage and patriotism that
was required to entertain, to avow and act upon such opinions-
that would restore home rule not only to the people of Louisiana
and South Carolina, but to the whole South. His acts were hailed
by the Southern people with enthusiasm as the dawn of a new era
in reconstruction.
"President Hayes was sincere and ardent in his desire to restore
good feelings between the sections, also to gain the confidence of the
South by generous and just acts, and had the Southern congress-
men met him half way he would have been able to have carried out
a policy that would have done much good to the prostrate and
suffering South; but these leaders stood aloof and left him unaided
to battle alone as best he could with his own party) many of the
leaders of which were opposed to his views and hostile to the South.
That he failed to accomplish much he intended for the South is to
be attributed to this hostility and to the want of confidence on the
part of Southern leaders and not to him."
HAYES TO BRYAN
Fremont, O.
25 Sept. 1887
My dear Guy:
You are as ever true and generous. Of course, I find few men
who will see all these things with your partial eyes. And yet I
am not rarely gratified in the same way. The Governor of South
Carolina, on the Grand Stand at the Centennial in Philadelphia, a
few days ago greeted me with emphatic and public commendation,
on the part of himself & his State in the most generous way, and
they were very cordial on the same ground.
The friendship personal and political of Republican leaders is
all I could wish. Of necessity, in the political and partisan war-303
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