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and the Democrats agreed to stop their filibuster,
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accept the official count,
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and allow Hayes to be peacefully inaugurated
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three days later or four days later.
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On March 3rd, Rutherford B.Hayes was privately inaugurated.
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No outdoor inauguration on the steps of the capitol,
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as they are always done.
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They feared violence, interruptions.
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They didn't know what was going to happen.
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He was privately inaugurated,
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quietly in the East Room of the White House.
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Catastrophe had been averted, but at what a price.