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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.
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C.Vann Woodward once accurately called this compromise a treaty,
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as much as a compromise.
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And if the Compromise of 1850, you'll remember,
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is so often referred to as an armistice,
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rather than a compromise,
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this Compromise of 1877 was, in some ways,a treaty.
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And, oh by the way, Hayes made it very clear,