“The New York Times proclaimed that if the votes in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana were certified in favor of Tilden, thus electing him over Hayes, the North – twelve years following Appomattox – would have lost the Civil War to the South: “it will be the sign of the subjugation of the nation by the rebels.” The.”

“The New York Times proclaimed that if the votes in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana were certified in favor of Tilden, thus electing him over Hayes, the North – twelve years following Appomattox – would have lost the Civil War to the South: “it will be the sign of the subjugation of the nation by the rebels.” The.”

— Jack Hurst