{"id":8593,"date":"2026-05-03T11:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=8593"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:02:24","slug":"ask-sam-tilden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/ask-sam-tilden\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Sam Tilden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The US Government taking away voting rights?\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not the first time we\u2019ve \u201cturned on a dime\u201d on the right to vote.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Voting Rights Act<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, the United States Supreme Court gutted the remaining provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.\u00a0\u00a0The conservative super-majority fulfilled a goal of Chief Justice John Roberts. That goal started in the early days of the Reagan Administration.\u00a0\u00a0The future chief was the \u201cpoint man\u201d for Reagan against a 1982 Congressional amendment to the act. The amendment added that states had an affirmative obligation to draw district lines in a way that would expand minority opportunities to win office.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the original act was passed in 1965, many Southern states continued to dilute the power of blacks by dividing them up into other, white majority districts.\u00a0\u00a0Reagan depended on the Nixon developed \u201cSouthern Strategy\u201d for reelection, and needed the South\u2019s support to remain in office.\u00a0\u00a0And, Roberts did not believe that the law should \u201cdiscriminate\u201d in favor of any single race, including minorities, in spite of the fact that laws discriminated against minorities throughout the first two hundred and eight years of American history.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The single most powerful law to guarantee black voting rights (and the power that comes from those votes) was the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and its future amendments.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the culmination of the 1960\u2019s Civil Rights Movement, led by Dr. King.\u00a0\u00a0And it followed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.\u00a0\u00a0Those two laws altered the legal processes that were used to keep minorities down, since 1876.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What happened in 1876?&nbsp;&nbsp;Here\u2019s a brief history lesson.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reconstruction&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of the Civil War in 1865, Union troops occupied large parts of the South. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0An example:\u00a0\u00a0it wasn\u2019t until June 19<sup>th<\/sup>, 1865, over two months after Lee\u2019s surrender at Appomattox, that Union forces reached Galveston, Texas.\u00a0\u00a0And it was only then that the enslaved people in Texas were freed, under the Emancipation Proclamation, an executive order which went into effect in January of 1863.\u00a0\u00a0(That\u2019s the \u201cback story\u201d on the Federal holiday \u201cJuneteenth\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And over the next decade, Congress added the 13<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Amendment (ending slavery), the 14<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Amendment <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> (guaranteeing citizenship and due process) and the 15<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Amendment (granting black men the right to vote).\u00a0\u00a0Those amendments were enforced in the former Confederacy by the remaining Union troops, who still occupied parts of the South.\u00a0\u00a0They guaranteed black political power, by making sure they could vote, and by banning many former Confederates from public office.\u00a0\u00a0There were sixteen Black members of Congress (two in the Senate, fourteen in the House), and even a Black governor of Louisiana in that decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tilden Wins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By 1876 the Northern Republicans grew tired of the cost of Reconstruction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0Meanwhile, the Democratic Party remained still divided by the Civil War. The Northern Democrats were a \u201cloyal opposition\u201d and the Southern Democrats the remnants of the party that seceded from the Union in the first place.\u00a0\u00a0And then came the Presidential election of 1876.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Republicans nominated Ohio\u2019s Governor and former Union General Rutherford Hayes. Democrats chose New York\u2019s Governor and career lawyer and politician Samuel Tilden. (He was against enslavement, but never served in the War).\u00a0\u00a0Tilden won the popular vote by almost three percent (50.92% to 47.92%) but was one vote short of winning the electoral college.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty electoral votes from Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina and Oregon were disputed, with both sides claiming \u201cthey won\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By Committee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress established a committee to determine how those votes should be counted.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were fifteen members, seven Republicans, seven Democrats, and originally one Supreme Court Justice who was considered \u201cneutral\u201d, David Davis.\u00a0\u00a0But, as the committee was meeting, Davis was appointed by the Democratic Illinois legislature as a United States Senator.\u00a0\u00a0Democrats thought that would guarantee his vote, and a win for Tilden.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Davis, a lifetime Republican who served as Lincoln\u2019s 1860 campaign manager, promptly recused himself from the committee.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Republican Court Justice Benjamin Bradley was then appointed.\u00a0\u00a0While written history remains \u201cmurky\u201d about what happened next (there\u2019s no documentation), the outcome was clear.\u00a0\u00a0Despite clear evidence that Tilden won at least the one more vote he needed, the committee gave all twenty votes to Hayes, making him President.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Four years later, Democrats won back the Presidency with New York Governor Grover Cleveland.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>There\u2019s a rumored story about a White House dinner during his administration, where some of the participants bragged about the deal \u201cthey made\u201d to end Reconstruction.\u00a0\u00a0But on one knows the details, the diners, or the real discussion.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Corrupt Bargain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why did Davis recuse himself, creating a Republican majority on the committee?\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As soon as Hayes became President, the remaining Union troops withdrew from the South.\u00a0\u00a0While earlier laws made the Black Codes (laws making the newly freed slaves second class citizens) illegal, the Jim Crow laws soon came into effect.\u00a0\u00a0The concept was that while the law might say blacks were \u201cequal\u201d, the social norms required they be \u201cseparate\u201d from white people in public settings.\u00a0\u00a0This was confirmed by the 1896 Supreme Court case\u00a0<em>Plessy v Ferguson<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0And, inevitably, separate was NOT equal.\u00a0Meanwhile, Southern states (and even many Northern states) engaged in gerrymandering, voting taxes and tests, KKK terrorism, and other means of disenfranchising minorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress soon passed the \u201cPosse Comitatus\u201d law, barring Federal troops from most law enforcement activities in the internal United States.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And even before the Hayes-Tilden election, Congress had already granted amnesty to most Confederates who then could run for office.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The election of 1876, historically called the \u201ccorrupt bargain\u201d, marked the first end of an era of Black civil rights and political advancement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0Now, with last week\u2019s US Supreme Court decision in\u00a0<em>Louisiana v Callais,\u00a0<\/em>it\u2019s happened again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hopefully it won\u2019t take another one hundred and fifty years to fix this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Government taking away voting rights?\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not the first time we\u2019ve \u201cturned on a dime\u201d on the right to vote.\u00a0\u00a0 Voting Rights Act This week, the United States Supreme Court gutted the remaining provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.\u00a0\u00a0The conservative super-majority fulfilled a goal of Chief Justice John Roberts. 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