member of the court, but he declined, as he had just been elected to the Senate by Illinois, and Justice Bradley was then selected to fill his place. Had Davis remained on the Commission, it is reasonably certain that the vote of the Electoral Commission would have been 8 for Tilden and 7 for Hayes. This Commission, whose judgment was to be final, decided in favor of Hayes on every disputed proposition by a vote of 8 to 7, and thus made him President by the following electoral vote: ════════════════╤════════╤════════ STATES. │ Hayes. │ Tilden. ────────────────┼────────┼──────── Maine │ 7 │ ―― New Hampshire │ 5 │ ―― Vermont │ 5 │ ―― Massachusetts │ 13 │ ―― Rhode Island │ 4 │ ―― Connecticut │ ―― │ 6 New York │ ―― │ 35 New Jersey │ ―― │ 9 Pennsylvania │ 29 │ ―― Delaware │ ―― │ 3 Maryland │ ―― │ 8 Virginia │ ―― │ 11 West Virginia │ ―― │ 5 North Carolina │ ―― │ 10 South Carolina │ 7 │ ―― Georgia │ ―― │ 11 Florida │ 4 │ ―― Alabama │ ―― │ 10 Mississippi │ ―― │ 8 Louisiana │ 8 │ ―― Texas │ ―― │ 8 Arkansas │ ―― │ 6 Missouri │ ―― │ 15 Tennessee │ ―― │ 12 Kentucky │ ―― │ 12 Ohio │ 22 │ ―― Michigan │ 11 │ ―― Indiana │ ―― │ 15 Illinois │ 21 │ ―― Wisconsin │ 10 │ ―― Minnesota │ 5 │ ―― Iowa │ 11 │ ―― Nebraska │ 3 │ ―― Kansas │ 5 │ ―― Colorado │ 3 │ ―― Nevada │ 3 │ ―― California │ 6 │ ―― Oregon │ 3 │ ―― ├────────┼──────── │ 185 │ 184 ════════════════╧════════╧════════ The true history of the struggle for the control of the electoral votes of South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana has never been written and now never can be fully written. The ablest men of both sides attended the contest in those States to battle for or against the action of the returning boards. All three States had voted for Tilden, but the returning boards, which had been created by the carpet-bag rule of the South, set aside the returns on the plea of fraud and certified the electoral vote for Hayes. The strength of the claim of the Democrats was practically admitted after the inauguration of Hayes by the President aiding in the adjustments which gave the Democrats the Governors and the Legislatures of those States, and ousting the Republicans who had given the electoral vote to the President.