Modern battles of Trenton .. . terminewhat the public duty ofNew Jersey might be inthe expected crisis wasappointed. The move-ment seems to have beenscarcely more than an in-dication of the super-heated condition of thepublic mind—for when,at the end of the tacticalcampaign between theadherents of the twopresidential candidates inCongress, Rutherford B. Hayes was declared by an extfa-Consti-tutional Commission to have been elected. New Jersey, with therest of the nation, accepted the situation with nothing moreviolent than a protest. Several of her statesmen had in fact done their part in fash
Modern battles of Trenton .. . terminewhat the public duty ofNew Jersey might be inthe expected crisis wasappointed. The move-ment seems to have beenscarcely more than an in-dication of the super-heated condition of thepublic mind—for when,at the end of the tacticalcampaign between theadherents of the twopresidential candidates inCongress, Rutherford B. Hayes was declared by an extfa-Consti-tutional Commission to have been elected. New Jersey, with therest of the nation, accepted the situation with nothing moreviolent than a protest. Several of her statesmen had in fact done their part in fashion-ing the result. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen was, as alreadystated, her representative in the Senate of the nation. His wasone of the eight votes cast, on the day before he stepped out ofhis high position, in the Commission of fifteen in support ofHayes title. Joseph P. Bradley, who had been a railroadlawyer in Newark, and risen to a position on the Bench of theSupreme Court of the United States, cast a second of the eight. Garret D. W. Vroora. MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. 129 votes. Ashbel Green was of those who pleaded Tildens causebefore the Commission, and Cortlandt Parker, a stately lawyerof Newark, had been one of the visiting statesmen who assistedto arrange matters in Louisiana in Hayes interest. When the Legislature came to Trenton early in January toelect a successor to Mr. Frelinghuysen, the perilously closeDemocratic majority dovetailed with the presidential complica-tions to make the issue of the senatorial struggle a doubtfulone. With eleven Democrats and ten Republicans in the Senateand the Assembly thirty on each side—with, therefore, but asingle vote standing between them and success—the Repub-licans were not without hope that by complicating the situa-tion they might succeed in renewing Mr. Frelinghuysens termat Washington. Mr. Frelinghuysen had not yet made hisfamous speech in the Senate concerning the method of conduct-ing the electoral count, nor had
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