Rutherford B. Hayes Quote

Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest — the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally — and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.


Inaugural Address (5 March 1877)

Rutherford B. Hayes's Inaugural Address


Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest — the interests of the...

Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest — the interests of the...

Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest — the interests of the...

Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest — the interests of the...