The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes

The Life, Public Services and Select?by James Quay Howard

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Title: The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes
Author: James Quay Howard
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THE LIFE
PUBLIC SERVICES AND SELECT SPEECHES
OF
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
BY
J. Q. HOWARD
CINCINNATI ROBERT CLARKE & CO
1876

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by ROBERT CLARKE & CO.
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Stereotyped by OGDEN, CAMPBELL & CO., Cincinnati.

CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
ANCESTRY.
Line of Descent--Family Tradition--Indian Fighters--Grandfather Rutherford--Chloe Smith Hayes--Father and Mother--Characteristics--Tribute to a Sister--General Character of Ancestors 9
CHAPTER II.
BOYHOOD AND EDUCATION.
Birthplace--University--Springs--Kossuth's Allusion--Early Instructors--Sent East--College Life--Began the Study of Law--At Harvard Law School--Story, Greenleaf, Webster, Agassiz, and Longfellow--Admission to Bar 15
CHAPTER III.
AT THE BAR.
Commences Practice--First Case--Partnership with Ralph P. Buckland--Settles in Cincinnati--Becoming Known--Literary Club--Nancy Farrer Case--Summons Case--Marriage--Law Partners--City Solicitor 22
CHAPTER IV.
IN THE FIELD.
Appointed Major--Judge Advocate--Lieutenant-Colonel--South Mountain--Wounded--Fighting while Down--After Morgan--Battle of Cloyd Mountain--Charge up the Mountain--Enemy's Works Carried by Storm--First Battle of Winchester--Berryville 31
CHAPTER V.
FROM MAJOR TO MAJOR-GENERAL.
Opequan--Morass--First Over--Intrepidity--Official Reports--Assault on Fisher's Hill--Battle of Cedar Creek--Commands a Division--Promoted on Field--His Wounds--A Hundred Days under Fire 43
CHAPTER VI.
IN CONGRESS.
Nomination--Refuses to Leave Army--Election Incident--Election--Course in Congress--Services on Library Committee--Votes on Various Questions--Submits Plan of Constitutional Amendments--Re-nominated by Acclamation--Re-elected by Increased Majority--Overwhelmed with Soldiers' Letters--Character as Congressman 51
CHAPTER VII.
ELECTED GOVERNOR OF OHIO.
Party of States Rights--Their Convention--Platform--Nomination of Thurman--Republican Convention and Platform--Nomination of General Hayes--Opening Speech at Lebanon--Thurman at Waverly--National Interest Aroused--Hayes Victorious--Inaugural--First Annual Message--Second Annual Message 62
CHAPTER VIII.
SECOND ELECTION AS GOVERNOR.
Re-nomination--Democratic Platform--Nomination of Rosecrans--Declines--Pendleton Nominated--Hayes at Wilmington--Election--Second Inaugural--Civil Service Reform--Short Addresses--Letters--Annual Message--Democratic Estimate of It--Davidson Fountain Address--Message of 1872--Work Accomplished 90
CHAPTER IX.
THIRD TIME ELECTED GOVERNOR.
The Senatorship Declined--Army Banquet Speech--Third Time Nominated for Congress--Glendale Speech--Declines a Federal Office--Making a Home--Nomination for Governor--Platform--Serenade Speech--Democratic Convention and Platform--Marion Speech of Hayes--Woodford--Grosvenor--Schurz--Inflation Drivel--Interest in the Contest--Honest Money Triumphant--Third Inaugural 124
CHAPTER X.
NOMINATION TO THE PRESIDENCY.
Early Suggestions--Letters on Subject--Garfield Letter--Action of State Convention--Cincinnati Convention--Course of his Friends-- First and Second Day's Events--Speech of Noyes--Balloting-- Nominated on Seventh Ballot--Officially Notified--Habits--Personal Appearance--Family--Letter of Acceptance--Character as a Soldier, Magistrate, and Man--Domestic Surroundings 143
APPENDIX.
I. Speech at Lebanon, Ohio, August 5, 1867 167
II. Speech at Sidney, Ohio, September 4, 1867 202
III. Speech on his Re-nomination, June 23, 1869 222
IV. Speech at Zanesville, Ohio, August 24, 1871 231
V. Speech at Marion, Ohio, July 31, 1875 241
VI. Speech at Fremont, June 25, 1876. 256

LIFE
OF
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.
CHAPTER I.
ANCESTRY.
Line of Descent--Family Tradition--Indian Fighters--Grandfather Rutherford--Chloe Smith Hayes--Father and Mother--Characteristics-- Tributes to a Sister--General Character of Ancestors.
George Hayes, of Scotland, came to America by the way of England, and settled at Windsor, in the Colony of Connecticut, in 1682. He married, in 1683, Abigail Dibble, who was born on Long Island in 1666. From these ancestors the direct line of descent to the Republican candidate for President of the United States is the following:
George Hayes, Abigail Dibble. Daniel Hayes, Sarah Lee. Ezekiel Hayes, Rebecca Russell. Rutherford Hayes, Chloe Smith. Rutherford Hayes, Sophia Birchard.
The earlier family traditions connect the name and descent of George Hayes with the fighting plowman mentioned in Scottish history, who at Loncarty, in Perthshire, turned back the invaders of his country, in a narrow pass, with the sole aid of his own valorous sons.
"Pull your plow and harrow to pieces, and fight," said the sturdy Scotchman to his sons. They fought, father and sons together, and won. A like command seems to have come down the centuries to an American-born son--"Tear your briefs and petitions to pieces, and fight." He also fought, and, though sorely wounded, won. Shall the crown of valor be withheld by a free people that was once bestowed by a Scottish king?
Daniel Hayes, the third of the ten children of George Hayes, was born at Windsor, in 1686. At the age of twenty-three, while fighting in defense of Simsbury--now Granby--to which town his father's family had removed, he was captured and carried off by the French and Indians. He was held as a prisoner in Canada for five years, and being a young man of great physical strength and vigor, the Indians adopted him as one of their race. His freedom was finally purchased through the intervention of a Frenchman, the colonial assembly of Connecticut, sitting at New Haven, having made an appropriation of public