Compromise of 1877....a Sellout?

[5fish]

The election of 1876 between R. Hayes(R) and S. Tilden(D) was a hanging chad type election which led to the Compromise of 1877, which placed R. Hayes(R) in the White House. The election and the Compromised did more then settle a election dispute for the compromise sold out the much of the social justice gains in the south from the Civil war.

The Compromise of 1877 was not a compromise but a sellout of the Freedmen of the south. It was a sellout of our American principles and of our Constitution too. Our nation just sold the X-Slaves(Freedmen) back into oppression.

Was the price worth it to sellout our fellow Black Americans for election harmony?

Did the Republican party sell it soul to insure it held on to Presidential power?

The Sellout of the Freedman, Scalawags, and Carpetbaggers was more then a mistake is was criminal. All to insure that Hayes would become president and the Republican party would retain the White House to sacrifice so much for just four years in office.

The Sellout of !877 insure White Supremacy in the south and one party rule(Is this not Communism) for the next 100 years. The Sellout of 1877 foretold that Black Americans(Freedman) would suffer segregation, second class status, and oppression in the coming decades. Some would say the Compromise(Sellout) of 1877 was like selling the Freedmen back into slavery all but in name.


Was the price of victory worth it to hold a public office..


Open to the board's thought...

[5fish]

I once wrote a posted where the Republicans turned the back on Lincoln in the 20th century. When they oppose the Civil rights and embrace the fallacy of States Rights to steal the southern vote. I was wrong for the Republicans began their to slip away from Lincoln in the 1870's by giving up on social justice for the Freedmen of the south which climax in the compromise(SELL Out) of 1877.

On this board that the majority opinion feels the outcome of Reconstruction was the logical end with white rule restored and the Freedmen regulated to second class status. The 19th century white man was not ready for equality with between the races.

Maybe, the compromise of 1877 was the logical end to Reconstruction for the North was tried of dealing the the South. If it was not for this compromise of 1877, one could bet that by the end of Hayes(R) term Reconstruction would have been over any ways.

Just thoughts..

[5fish]

If you thinks about it 1877 was one of those watershed years in our nation history. There was an election that mark the end of Reconstruction and by the end of that year the Redeemer movement had swept over the south ending the era of carpetbaggers and scalawags.

The Redeemer were to issue in decades of intolerance and injustice of few by the majority throughout the old Confederacy, insuring that the civil right fight will be revisited in the coming generations. It mark the final chapter of our epic civil war struggled and if you think about it our civil war ended in a draw. The north preserved the union and freed the slaves while the confederates regain control of their states and control of the Freedmen labor.

[whitworth]

with the enormous debt from the Civil War and the devastating economic ruin of 1873, there was no way the U.S. had the funds or the commitment of the people of the north, to strictly enforce the laws affecting freed blacks, at the point of a bayonet.

One of the great mistakes of freed black following the Civil War, was accepting the vote for former male slaves, without considering the long term effect of white women not having the vote.
By 1877, freed blacks had no real support from white women, north or south.