and John Young Brown, of Kentucky, as his lieutenant.
The Republican policy was to allow the Democrats to lead and do the
talking, while they should fall into line and vote when the proper
time came. But Fernando Wood at the head of the Republicans as a
leader, was a spectacle as strange and startling as Satan leading a
prayer-meeting. It was too much for an orthodox, close-communion,
hard-shell Republican like Martin I. Townsend!

On Thursday afternoon, the last day of the alarming scenes in
Congress, nearly everybody had lost hope. There was no telling at what
moment the government would be in anarchy. In the midst of the
confusion, excitement, and threatening danger, the Hon. Charles Foster
was the most imperturbable man in Congress. On Thursday afternoon
Senator Hoar, a member of Congress from Massachusetts, saw Mr. Foster
seated at his desk writing as quietly and composedly as if in his
private office; he seemed perfectly oblivious to the angry storm which
was raging about him. The cold-blooded, conservative New England
Senator was as greatly amazed at the serenity of the clear-headed
Western Congressman as he was distressed at the impending disaster. He
went to Mr. Foster and talked very discouragingly respecting the
situation. He said that the Senate was growing impatient at the
dilatory conduct of the House, and would probably, at the earliest
convenience, send a message to the House demanding that the latter
open their doors and admit the Senate to complete the count.
Congressman Foster stated to the Senator that the House was not in a
temper to be driven; that a resolution of the character of the one
proposed would hinder rather than help a peaceful solution of the
vexatious count; and that if he would only possess his soul in
patience, before the rising of another sun R. B. Hayes would be
peaceably and constitutionally declared the President of the United
States. And it was even as he said; for before four o'clock the next
morning the count was completed, and Hayes declared the President of
the United States for the Constitutional term of four years. This is
given as one of the many unwritten incidents that occurred during this
angry, and, probably, most perilous controversy that ever threatened
the life of the American Republic.

A new policy for the South was now inevitable. From October 1876 till
March 1877, President Grant had refused to recognize Chamberlain as
Governor of South Carolina, or Packard as