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==Timeline==

==Timeline==

===GOP campaign, 1876===

===GOP campaign, 1876===

During the 1876 presidential election, the Republican National Convention nominated [[Rutherford Hayes]] and William Wheeler to head the party ticket for the general election. Both Hayes and Wheeler sought to peel away Democrat support from the South by voicing conciliatory tones,<ref name=williamwheelerbio/> attempting to draw support from upper-class old Southern Whigs who eventually joined the Democratic Party when the Whig Party collapsed.

During the 1876 presidential election, the Republican National Convention nominated [[Rutherford Hayes]] and William Wheeler to head the party ticket for the general election. Both Hayes and Wheeler sought to peel away Democrat support from the South by voicing conciliatory tones,<ref name=williamwheelerbio/> attempting to draw support from upper-class old Southern Whigs who eventually joined the Democratic Party when the [[Whig Party]] collapsed.

[[Frederick Douglass]] asked at the party convention whether delegates would continue to uphold the constitutional rights of blacks, or if they intended to "get along without the vote of the black man in the South."<ref name=williamwheelerbio/> Hayes and Wheeler chose the latter.

[[Frederick Douglass]] asked at the party convention whether delegates would continue to uphold the constitutional rights of blacks, or if they intended to "get along without the vote of the black man in the South."<ref name=williamwheelerbio/> Hayes and Wheeler chose the latter.