Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893 / 2008-07-17 00:00:00
EBOOK OF ADDRESSES BY RUTHERFORD B. HAYES ***
This eBook was produced by James Linden.
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Dates of addresses by Rutherford B. Hayes in this eBook:
December 3, 1877
December 2, 1878
December 1, 1879
December 6, 1880
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State of the Union Address
Rutherford B. Hayes
December 3, 1877
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives:
With devout gratitude to the bountiful Giver of All Good, I congratulate
you that at the beginning of your first regular session you find our
country blessed with health and peace and abundant harvests, and with
encouraging prospects of an early return of general prosperity.
To complete and make permanent the pacification of the country continues to
be, and until it is fully accomplished must remain, the most important of
all our national interests. The earnest purpose of good citizens generally
to unite their efforts in this endeavor is evident. It found decided
expression in the resolutions announced in 1876 by the national conventions
of the leading political parties of the country. There was a widespread
apprehension that the momentous results in our progress as a nation marked
by the recent amendments to the Constitution were in imminent jeopardy;
that the good understanding which prompted their adoption, in the interest
of a loyal devotion to the general welfare, might prove a barren truce, and
that the two sections of the country, once engaged in civil strife, might
be again almost as widely severed and disunited as they were when arrayed
in arms against each other.
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