Is there any doubt as to the understanding of the pledge by the Southern Democrats who were active in arranging the bargain, afterwards carried out by Hayes with the aid of the Louisiana Lottery? "If we should lose the national government we may be able to save Louisiana," said the Hon. Lucius Q. C. Lamar to Mr. Roberts of New Orleans early in the progress of the negotiations. And later, when certain Democrats in the House were proposing to stand out to the last against the consummation of the fraud, Judge Lamar sent to one of their number, the Hon. John Ellis of Louisiana, this letter of vindication and appeal: "I have just learned from an unquestionable authority, which I will give, if you wish it, that Foster said to a gentleman, my informant, that the speech he made to-day, which so significantly but indirectly hints at Hayes' Southern policy, that he made it after consultation with Mr. Matthews, Mr. Hayes' brother-in-law, and Mr. Matthews told him and urged him to say squarely that Hayes would have nothing to do or to say to Packard. "Now, Ellis, this is the first thing I have ever heard as coming from Hayes, directly or indirectly, that is worth acting upon by any Southern man. We do not want offices, but we do want to get our States and our people free from the carpet-bag government. Ought you not, if an available opportunity offers you to serve your State and people, to spring forward at once and see if you can't free your State? I think you should at once see Mr. Stanley Matthews and ask him if Governor Hayes will give you some assurance that he will not nominate Packard in his domination of your people." This Judge Lamar is the gentleman who afterwards served as a member of Mr. Cleveland's cabinet, and who received from Mr. Cleveland an appointment to the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. BIGELOW TO JUDGE STEPHEN J. FIELD (AN ADDRESS OF THE MINORITY OF THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION) "21 GRAMERCY PARK, _January 31, 1894_. "HON. STEPHEN J. FIELD. "MY DEAR JUDGE,--The son of Judge Josiah Gardner Abbott, of Mass., handed me a few days since in Boston a copy of the proposed address of the minority of the electoral commission of 1877 protesting against the decisions of the majority of that commission. At the close of this address, or somewhere on it, was the following endorsement: "'This address was drawn up at the request of some of the minority members of the electoral commission, to whom it was submitted and approved by them. But some doubted the wisdom of publishing the address at the time, and so it was not signed. "'(Signed) J. G. ABBOTT.'