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time, the country was bitterly divided and still struggling with the after math of the civil war. 82% of voters cast ballots, how it turn today out is soberering and eye opening. we have your overnight news history lesson. ♪ 1876 was a banner year for america. the hundredth anniversary of the declaration of independence. a nationwide celebration with a full fifth of the country's population descending on philadelphia for the centennial exhibition but there was unease. >> it was record unemployment, and the disputes going on in various parts of the country.

and columbia history professor said the country was feeling the after shocks of the silver war. which ended only 11 years before. >> it was still violence in the south that existed since the civil war because of white supremacists opposition to the giving of citizenship rights. >> 1876 was also a presidential election year. and all of these issues, be plus the rampant corruption in the -- would factor in the contest. ♪ the republicans ran ohio governor rutherford b.hayes. >> was he charasmatic? >> i don't think so. >> this was a spectacular porch.

>> he wanted a porch attached. he really was exemplified of the american tradition that the office seeks you and you don't seek it. >> we have general grant, general sheridan and all from ohio. >> hayes served as a general in the civil war said the center's executive director, it was central to his identity. >> he saw first hand the passions that were behind the sectionalism that was behind the civil war. that was always in the back of his mind, how do we make the country feel united again? >> meanwhile the democrats were hungry to reclaim the white house, which they have not won in 20 years. their candidate, new york governor samuel tildon, a lawyer had made his fame fighting big

city corruption. ♪ the man was a bit lethargic and quite frankly a lot of people thought he was dull. dull but dedicated. >> his home sat across from new york's gramercy park and today the nashtional arts club. >> i have to tell you this house is nicer than the white house. >> this house is a great tilden >> while both had beautiful homes, neither candidate was mount rushmore material. >> there's another way of putting it, both of them were mediocrities politically. >> but the turn out was the highest ever norah presidential election. the turnout was 82% of eligible voters. that is extraordinary. >> you had two political parties

competing throughout the nation with people very loyal to them. >> on election night, tilden was ahead in the popular vote by 260,000 votes. >> hayes actually goes to bed, believing tilden had won, and he has interviews with reporters saying, i have lost. the republican party has to step in and tell him to stop saying that. >> that's because republican officials still saw a narrow path to victory for hayes. >> if hayes could carry the three southern states where the results were not clear. florida, louisiana and south carolina, he would win by one electoral vote and they just issued a statement, hayes has carried those states and elected. and in a certain sense, it's almost like the 2000 election

where bush made a statement that he won the election, and gore never contested it. >> the united states woke up not knowing who had won. the country had four months to figure out who would be its 19th president. this election was flawed from top to bottom. >> massive voter fraud, was said to add to the confusion. >> there was violence throughout the south against african-american voters, trying to make it impossible for them to vote. >> black men, almost all of whom were republican back then had recently won the right to vote. is and southern democrats were actively suppressing that vote. >> the if there was a fair election in the south, there's no question hayes would have won by a large margin. >> as the weeks dragged on, nieth side was willing to consaed. >> how tense did it get? >> there were democratic newspapers with head lines, march to washington to install

tilden as president. there were kep cans saying we are on the verge of another civil war. >> tild nemen or blood, the ide that if we don't have him in there, there could be another fight here. >> was there fears that there was dualing presidencies. >> there were those that asked him to take the oath of office anyway, he refused to cdo so. >> there were business owners and others that said, we don't care who won it, just get it settled. >> the constitution offered no clear reflection for resolving the impass. so in january of 1877 a 15 member electoral commission of of formed, the eight republicans and seven democrats would determine which candidate would win the state's in dispute. >> all of the votes are allocated to hayes by a vet of of 8-7 in each case. >> that is right, the commission

voted along party lines. >> but it's not over yet. >> it's not over yet. >> the tilden camp cried foul, with inauguration just days away, and the nation on edge representatives for both candidates met in washington for secret negotiations. >> ironically they took place at a major hotel, which is owned by a black man, warmly, probably the most well-to-do african-american in the city of washington at the time. >> ironic. because the agreement forged there, known as the compromise of 1877, would have long lasting repercussions for black americans in the south. >> the democrats will not stop the inauguration of hayes, they will hayes at president. hayes will end the remaining reconstruction. >> in other words the republicans get the white house. the departments effectively regain control of the american south. no more federal protection of

the rights of recently freed african-americans. >> the democrats promised that they will respect the basic rights of the former slaves which they do not do. >> rutherford b hayes was certified as president. and samuel tilden accepted the decisions. three days later, hayes was inaugurated in a peaceful transfer of power. >> i think if either hayes or tilden had been of the personality that was aggressive or intense, really wanted this presidency for very selfish reasons, i think the whole ten or would have changed. >> today, president hayes is remembered less for what he did in his single term in office, than for the election that threatened to once again tear apart the country. are visitors bringing up the elections of 1876 more?

>> they are interested in how

. columbia, maryland honored one of its own, a world war ii veteran who never stopped reaching for new heights. chip reid has her story. >> reporter: millie bailey said she always wanted to go sky diving and recently checked that off of her bucket list at the age of 102, tell me what it was like to jump out of that plane? >> it was great. at one point, the wind had gotten pretty strong, and i was tumbling and ifelt like i was by myself and i wondered where the paratrooper had gone. >> reporter: she calls it a thrill of a lifetime, a lifetime full of thrills. one of them was meeting president obama who honored her military service. in world war ii she joined the

army corp and was one of two african-americans in her class. she retired from government service 45 years ago. did you slow down when you retired? >> not really. >> reporter: and one more thrill, today this park was named for herrer in honor of her decades of charitable good works. having conquered sky diving, she now has her sights set on the next big thrill. >> i still would lake to meet michelle obama, had that would take the last thing off my bucket list. >> and we are guessing she will find a way to make that happen too. columbia, maryland. >> chip and asked millie if she ever wanted to go sky diving again, and she said, no, one time is enough. you have to love her attitude. you are watching the cbs overnight news.

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