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Tilden's household,
in an attempt to bribe the canvassing boards in the South
and to purchase some Republican electors in the South and
one in Oregon, tended to make the leading members of that
party sick of the whole matter. President Hayes served out
his term peacefully and handed over the executive power, not
only to a Republican successor, but to a member of the majority
of the Electoral Commission. So it seems clear that the bulk
of the American people had little sympathy with the complaints.

CHAPTER V
THE SENATE IN 1877
When I came to the Senate that body was at the very height
of its Constitutional power. It was, I think, a more powerful
body than ever before or since. There were no men in it,
I suppose, who were equal in reputation or personal authority
to either of the great triumvirate--Webster, Clay and Calhoun.
If we may trust the traditions that have come down from the
time of the Administrations of Washington and Adams, when
the Senate sat with closed doors, none of them ever acquired
the authority wielded by the profound sagacity of Ellsworth.


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