Hoar
FROM CHARLES DEVENS, JR., ATTORNEY-GENERAL, ETC.
WORCESTER
May 18, '76.
_My Dear Hoar_
I have just read with the greatest interest and satisfaction
your speech on the jurisdiction in the impeachment case. It
seems to me most able profound and convincing and I congratulate
you immensely on the effort which is spoken of by all who
have read it as most vigorous and successful. It could not
have been better done.
Yours most truly
CHAS DEVENS JR
FROM CHARLES ALLEN, JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF
MASSACHUSETTS.
BOSTON May 18 1876
_Dear Mr. Hoar_
Thanks for your argument in the Belknap case. Massachusetts
is very proud of what you have done in this case; and I, among
the rest.
Yours very truly
CHARLES ALLEN.
Hon. G. F. Hoar.
CHAPTER XXVI
ELECTORAL COMMISSION
When the Presidential election of 1876 was over both sides
claimed the victory. When the certificates of the result
in the different States reached the President of the Senate,
in accordance with the requirement of the Constitution and
the law, it turned out that there was one majority for Hayes
and Wheeler, upon the face of the returns, if the returns
from the State of Oregon were construed in accordance with
the Republican claim.
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