Rutherford B. Hayes Quote

These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. — Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slavery — in fact, its only enemy.

Diary (5 June 1862) - Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)