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The Democrats agreed not to make a huge fuss over the Republicans stealing the election of 1876, and the Republicans agreed that they would end Reconstruction and the military occupation of the South, which by that time was still ongoing in only South Carolina and Louisiana. Samuel J. Tilden had won both the popular vote and the electoral vote, but the Republicans decided to, as one said, "fix things up", and they did, changing the vote totals in South Carolina, Louisiana and Oregon, to make "His Fradulency", Rutherfraud (really Rutherford) B. Hayes President. Hayes seems to have been a nice, honorable man and took no personal part in this skullduggery. The Republican Party had begun in 1854 as a small group with high ideals but was largely corrupt by that time, and most of the time since.

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