There was no question
or pretence in any quarter that the will of the people of
Oregon was not given due effect by the judgment of the Electoral
Commission.
I do not believe that there are any considerable number of
intelligent persons in the country, now that the excitement
of the time has gone by, who doubt that the will of the people
of South Carolina and Florida and Louisiana was carried into
effect by the judgment of the Commission; and that their judgment
baffled an unscrupulous conspiracy to deprive the majorities
in those States of their lawful rights in the election because
those majorities were made up largely of negroes.
CHAPTER XXVII
FOUR NATIONAL CONVENTIONS
1876
It has been my fortune to be a delegate from Massachusetts
in four National Conventions for the nomination of President
and Vice-President--those of 1876, 1880, 1884 and 1888. In
the first I was a delegate from the Worcester district, which
I then represented in Congress. In the other three I was
at the head of the delegation at large. I presided over that
of 1880.
The history of these conventions is of great interest.
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