Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822-January, 17, 1893) was the 19th President of the United States, 1877-81; Governor of Ohio, 1868- 72, 1876-77; U.S. Representative, 1864-67; Brigadier General during the Civil War, 1864; Lieutenant Colonel, 1861, wounded in the Battle of South Mountain, 1862; Major in the 23rd Ohio Volunteers, 1861; City Solicitor of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1858-61; delegate to the Ohio Republican Convention, 1855; married Lucy Ware Webb, 1852; graduated from Harvard Law School and admitted to bar, 1845; and graduated from Kenyon College, Ohio, 1842.
Rutherford B. Hayes requested that his Presidential Inauguration be moved to Monday, March 5, rather than violate the Sabbath. He took the oath of office as President of the U.S. on March 5, 1877, with his open palm placed on Psalm 118:13, and, after repeating the oath, he kissed the open Bible. On Monday, March 5, 1877, in his Inaugural Address, President Rutherford Birchard Hayes stated:
<Looking for the guidance of that Divine Hand by which the destinies of nations and individuals are shaped, I call upon you, Senators, Representatives, judges, fellow-citizens, here and everywhere, to unite with me in an earnest effort to secure to our country the blessings, not only of material property, but of justice, peace, and union-a union depending not upon the constraint of force, but upon the loving devotion of a free people; and that all things may be so ordered and settled upon the best and surest foundations that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations.> 1822RH001
On October 29, 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes issued a Proclamation of a National Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer:
<The completed circle of summer and winter, seedtime and harvest, has brought us to the accustomed season at which a religious people celebrates with praise and thanksgiving the enduring mercy of Almighty God. This devout and public confession of the constant dependance of man upon the divine favor for all the good gifts of life and health and peace and happiness, so early in our history made the habit of our people, finds in the survey of the past year new grounds for its joyful and grateful manifestation.
In all the blessings which depend upon benignant seasons, this has indeed been a memorable year. Over the wide territory of our country, with all its diversity of soil and climate and products, the earth has yielded a bountiful return to the labor of the husbandman. The health of the people has been blighted by no prevalent or widespread diseases. No great disasters of shipwreck upon our coasts or to our commerce on the seas have brought loss and hardship to merchants or mariners and clouded the happiness of the community with sympathetic sorrow.
In all that concerns our strength and peace and greatness as a nation; in all that touches the permanence and security of our Government and the beneficent institutions on which it rests; in all that affects the character and dispositions of our people and tests our capacity to enjoy and uphold the equal and free condition of society, now permanent and universal throughout the land, the experience of the last year is conspicuously marked by the protecting providence of God and is full of promise and hope for the coming generations.
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Under a sense of these infinite obligations to the Great Ruler of Times and Seasons and Events, let us humbly ascribe it to our own faults and frailties if in any degree that perfect concord and happiness, peace and justice, which such great mercies should diffuse through the hearts and lives of our people do not altogether and always and everywhere prevail. Let us with one spirit and with one voice lift up praise and thanksgiving to God for His manifold goodness to our land, His manifest care for our nation.
Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, do appoint Thursday, the 29th day of November next, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer; and I earnestly recommend that, withdrawing themselves from secular cares and labors, the people of the United States do meet together on that day in their respective places of worship, there to give thanks and praise to Almighty God for His mercies and to devoutly beseech their continuance.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 29th day of October, A.D. 1877, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and second. R.B. Hayes.
By the President: Wm. M. Evarts, Secretary of State.> 1822RH002
On Monday, December 3, 1877, in his First Annual Message, President Rutherford B. Hayes stated:
<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....
The Government of the Samoan Islands has sent an envoy, in the person of its secretary of state, to invite the Government of the United States to recognize and protect their independence, to establish commercial relations with their people, and to assist them in their steps toward regulated and responsible government. The inhabitants of these islands, having made considerable progress in Christian civilization and the development of trade, are doubtful of their ability to maintain peace and independence without the aid of some stronger power.> 1822RH003
On October 30, 1878, President Rutherford B. Hayes issued a Proclamation of a National Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer:
<The recurrence of that season at which it is the habit of our people to make devout and public confession of their constant dependence upon the divine favor for all the good gifts of life and happiness and of public peace and prosperity exhibits in the record of the year abundant reasons for our gratitude and thanksgiving.
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Exuberant harvests, productive mines, ample crops of the staples of trade and manufactures, have enriched the country.
The resources thus furnished to our reviving industry and expanding commerce are hastening the day when discords and distresses through the length and breadth of the land will, under the continued favor of Providence, have given way to confidence and energy and assured prosperity.
Peace with all nations has been maintained unbroken, domestic tranquillity has prevailed, and the institutions of liberty and justice which the wisdom and virtue of our fathers established remain the glory and defense of their children.
The general prevalence of the blessings of health through our wide land has made more conspicuous the sufferings and sorrows which the dark shadow of pestilence has cast upon a portion of our people. This heavy affliction even the Divine Ruler has tempered to the suffering communities in the universal sympathy and succor which have flowed to their relief, and the whole nation may rejoice in the unity of spirit in our people by which they cheerfully share one another's burdens.
Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, do appoint Thursday, the 28th day of November next, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer; and I earnestly recommend that, withdrawing themselves from secular cares and labors, the people of the United States do meet together on that day in their respective places of worship, there to give thanks and praise to Almighty God for His mercies and to devoutly beseech their continuance.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done in the city of Washington, this 30th day of October, A.D. 1878, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and third. R.B. Hayes.
By the President: Wm M. Evarts, Secretary of State.> 1822RH004
On December 2, 1878, in his Second Annual Message to Congress, President Rutherford B. Hayes stated:
<Our heartfelt gratitude is due to the Divine Being who holds in His hands the destinies of nations for the continued bestowal during the last year of countless blessings upon our country.> 1822RH005
On Monday, November 3, 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes issued a Proclamation of a National Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer:
<At no recurrence of the season, which the devout habit of a religious people has made the occasion for giving thanks to Almighty God and humbly invoking His continued favor, has the material prosperity enjoyed by our whole country been more conspicuous, more manifold, or more universal.
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During the past year, also, unbroken peace with all foreign nations, the general prevalence of domestic tranquillity, the supremacy and security of the great institutions of civil and religious freedom, have gladdened the hearts of our people and confirmed their attachment to their Government, which the wisdom and courage of our ancestors so fitly framed and the wisdom and courage of their descendants have so firmly maintained to be the habitation of liberty and justice to successive generations.
Now, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, do appoint Thursday, the 27th day of November instant, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer; and I earnestly recommend that, withdrawing themselves from secular cares and labors, the people of the United States do meet together on that day in their respective places of worship, there to give thanks and praise to Almighty God for His mercies and to devoutly beseech their continuance.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 3d day of November, A.D. 1879, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fourth.
Rutherford B. Hayes.
By the President: Wm M. Evarts, Secretary of State.> 1822RH006
On December 1, 1879, in his Third Annual Message to Congress, President Rutherford B. Hayes stated:
<The members of the Forty-sixth Congress have assembled in their first regular session under circumstances calling for mutual congratulations and grateful acknowledgement to the Giver of All Good for the large and unusual measure of national prosperity which we now enjoy.> 1822RH007
On December 1, 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes stated in his Third Annual Message to Congress (Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. 7, pp. 559-569):
<The continued deliberate violation by a large number of prominent and influential citizens of the Territory of Utah of the laws of the United States for the prosecution and punishment of polygamy demands the attention of every department of the Government.
This Territory has a population sufficient to entitle it to admission as a State, and the general interests of the nation, as well as the welfare of the citizens of the Territory, require its advance from the Territorial form of government to the responsibilities and privileges of a State.
This important change will not, however, be approved by the country while the citizens of Utah in very considerable number uphold a practice which is condemned as a crime by the laws of all civilized communities throughout the world. The law for the suppression of this offense was enacted with great unanimity by Congress more than seventeen years ago, but has remained until
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recently a dead letter in the Territory of Utah, because of the peculiar difficulties attending its enforcement.
The opinion widely prevailed among the citizens of Utah that the law was in contravention of the constitutional guaranty of religious freedom. This objection is now removed.
The Supreme Court of the United States has decided the law to be within the legislative power of Congress and binding as a rule of action for all who reside within the Territories. There is no longer any reason for delay or hesitation in its enforcement.
It should be firmly and effectively executed. If not sufficiently stringent in its provisions, it should be amended; and in aid of the purpose in view I recommend that more comprehensive and more searching methods for preventing as well as punishing this crime be provided.
If necessary to secure obedience to the law, the enjoyment and exercise of the rights and privileges of citizenship in the Territories of the United States may be withheld or withdrawn from those who violate or oppose the enforcement of the law on this subject.> 1822RH008
On Monday, November 1, 1880, President Rutherford B. Hayes issued a Proclamation of a National Day of Thanksgiving:
<At no period in their history since the United States became a nation has this people had so abundant and universal reasons for joy and gratitude at the favor of Almighty God or been subject to so profound an obligation to give thanks for His loving kindness and humbly to implore His continued care and protection.
Health, wealth, and prosperity throughout all our borders; peace, honor, and friendship with all the world; firm and faithful adherence by the great body of our population to the principles of liberty and justice which have made our greatness as a nation, and to the wise institutions and strong frame of government and society which will perpetuate it-for all these let the thanks of a happy and united people, as with one voice, ascend in devout homage to the Giver of All Good.
I therefore recommend that on Thursday, the 25th day of November next, the people meet in their respective places of worship to make their acknowledgments to Almighty God for His bounties and His protection and to offer to Him prayers for their continuance.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done in the city of Washington, this 1st day of November, A.D. 1880, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifth. R.B. Hayes.
By the President: Wm. M. Evarts, Secretary of State.> 1822RH009 On December 6, 1880, in his Fourth Annual Message to Congress,
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President Rutherford B. Hayes stated:
<By the favor of Divine Providence we have been blessed during the past year with health, with abundant harvests, with profitable employment for all our people, and with contentment at home, and with peace and friendship with other nations.> 1822RH010
On December 6, 1880, President Rutherford B. Hayes stated in his Fourth Annual Message to Congress (Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. 7, pp. 605-606):
<It is the recognized duty and purpose of the people of the United States to suppress polygamy where it now exists in our Territories and to prevent its extension.
Faithful and zealous efforts have been made by the United States authorities in Utah to enforce the laws against it. Experience has shown that the legislation upon this subject, to be effective, requires extensive modification and amendment. The longer action is delayed the more difficult it will be to accomplish what is desired.
Prompt and decided measures are necessary. The Mormon sectarian organization which upholds polygamy has the whole power of making and executing the local legislation of the Territory. By its control of the grand and petit juries it possesses large influence over the administration of justice.
Exercising, as the heads of this sect do, the local power of the Territory, they are able to make effective their hostility to the law of Congress on the subject of polygamy, and, in fact, do prevent its enforcement.
Polygamy will not be abolished if the enforcement of the law depends on those who practice and uphold the crime. It can only be suppressed by taking away the political power of the sect which encourages and sustains it. The power of Congress to enact suitable laws to protect the Territories is ample. It is not a case for halfway measures.
The political power of the Mormon sect is increasing. It controls now one of our wealthiest and most populous Territories. It is extending steadily into other Territories. Wherever it goes it establishes polygamy and sectarian political power. The sanctity of marriage and the family relation are the corner stone of our American society and civilization. Religious liberty and the separation of church and state are among the elementary ideas of free institutions.
To reestablish the interests and principles which polygamy and Mormonism have imperiled, and to fully reopen to intelligent and virtuous immigrants of all creeds that part of our domain which has been in a great degree closed to general immigration by intolerant and immoral institutions, it is recommended that the government of the Territory of Utah be reorganized.
I recommend that Congress provide for the government of Utah by a governor and judges, or commissioners, appointed by the President and
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confirmed by the Senate-a government analogous to the provisional government established for the territory northwest of the Ohio by the ordinance of 1787.
If, however, it is deemed best to continue the existing form of local government, I recommend that the right to vote, hold office, and sit on juries in the Territory of Utah be confined to those who neither practice nor uphold polygamy.
If thorough measures are adopted, it is believed that within a few years the evils which now afflict Utah will be eradicated, and that this Territory will in good time become one of the most prosperous and attractive of the new States of the Union.> 1822RH011
On February 22, 1881, in an Executive Order issued from Washington, D.C., President Rutherford B. Hayes wrote to the Secretary of War:
<In view of the well-known fact that the sale of intoxicating liquors in the Army of the United States is the cause of much demoralization among both officers and men, and that it gives rise to a large proportion of the cases before general and garrison courts-martial, involving great expense and serious injury to the service-
It is therefore directed, that the Secretary of War take suitable steps, as far as practicable consistently with vested rights, to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage at the camps, forts, and other posts of the Army.> 1822RH012
It was President Rutherford B. Hayes' habit to hold prayers following breakfast each day in the White house. A chapter of Scripture was read aloud with each person there reading a portion. The meeting ended with everyone kneeling and repeating the Lord's prayer. On the occasion of his son's joining a church, President Rutherford B. Hayes offered fatherly encouragement:
<I hope that you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize it generally civilizes. There is reason enough for supporting churches if there were none higher.> 1822RH013
President Rutherford B. Hayes gave financial support to and held the position of a trustee in the Methodist Church. Following a speech he gave to the Catholic Knights of America, he noted these thoughts in his diary:
<I am a Protestant, born a Protestant, expect to live a Protestant, and shall probably die a Protestant.
I can see in the past, and to-day, faults in the Catholic Church, but I am grateful for:
- its work in behalf of temperance;
- its example in keeping together poor and rich; care for the poor; influence with the poor;
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- for its treatment of the blacks; of all the unfortunate races. A negro sat with us at our banquet table;
- for its fidelity in spite of party...Archbishop John Baptist Purcell strung the American flag, in the crisis of our fate, from the top of the Cathedral in Cincinnati April 16, 1861!
The spire was beautiful before, but the Catholic prelate made it radiant with hope and glory for our country!> 1822RH014
President Rutherford B. Hayes explained his position on church:
<I am not a subscriber to any creed. I belong to no church. But I try to be a Christian, or rather I want to be a Christian and to help do Christian work.> 1822RH015
President Rutherford B. Hayes recorded in his diary:
<Have been reading Genesis several Sundays...not as an infidel reads to carp and quarrel and criticize, but as one who wishes to be informed and furnished in the earliest and most wonderful of all literary productions. The literature of the Bible should be studied as one studies Shakespeare, for illustration and language, for its true picture of man and woman's nature, for its early historical record.> 1822RH016
President Rutherford B. Hayes declared:
<I am a firm believer in the Divine teachings, perfect example, and atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. I believe also in the Holy Scriptures as the revealed Word of God to the world for its enlightenment and salvation.> 1822RH017
On March 13, 1892, in his Last Will and Testament, Rutherford Birchard Hayes stated:
<I commit my soul to the mercy of God through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and I exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the teachings of the New Testament in its broad spirit, and to put no faith in any man's narrow construction of its letter here or there.> 1822RH018
On January 17, 1893, shortly before his death, Rutherford B. Hayes wrote in a diary entry:
<I am a Christian, according to my conscience, in belief, not of course, in character and conduct, but in purpose and wish; not, of course, by the orthodox standards. But I am content and have a feeling of trust and safety....Let me be pure and wise and kind and true in all things.> 1822RH019
On January 18, 1893, from his Executive Mansion in Washington, D.C., President Benjamin Harrison wrote
<To the people of the United States:
The death of Rutherford B. Hayes, who was President of the United States from March 4, 1877, to March 4, 1881, at his home in Fremont, Ohio, at 11 p.m. yesterday, is an event the announcement of which will be received with very general and very sincere sorrow.
His public service extended over many years and over a wide range of official duty. He was a patriotic citizen, a lover of the flag and of our free institutions, an industrious and conscientious civil officer, a soldier of dauntless courage, a loyal comrade and friend, a sympathetic and helpful neighbor, and the honored head of a happy Christian home.> 1822RH020
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Endnotes:
1822RH001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., ed., The Chief Executive (NY: Chelsea House Publishers, 1965), p. 150.
1822RH002. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes, March 5, 1877, at his inauguration. Edmund Fuller and David E. Green, God in the White House-The Faiths of American Presidents (NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1968), p. 135.
1822RH003. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes, March 5, 1877, Monday, in his Inaugural Address. James D. Richardson (U.S. Representative from Tennessee), ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published by Authority of Congress, 1897, 1899; Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1789-1902, 11 vols., 1907, 1910), Vol. 7, pp. 446-447. Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States-From George Washington 1789 to Richard Milhous Nixon 1969 (Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office; 91st Congress, 1st Session, House Document 91-142, 1969), pp. 135-140. Davis Newton Lott, The Inaugural Addresses of the American Presidents (NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961), p. 141. Charles E. Rice, The Supreme Court and Public Prayer (New York: Fordham University Press, 1964), p. 186. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., ed., The Chief Executive (NY: Chelsea House Publishers, 1965), p. 155. Benjamin Weiss, God in American History: A Documentation of America's Religious Heritage (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1966), p. 103. Willard Cantelon, Money Master of the World (Plainfield, NJ: Logos International, 1976), p. 120. J. Michael Sharman, J.D., Faith of the Fathers (Culpeper, Virginia: Victory Publishing, 1995), pp. 66-67.
1822RH004. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes, October 29, 1877, in a Proclamation of a National Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer. James D. Richardson (U.S. Representative from Tennessee), ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published by Authority of Congress, 1897, 1899; Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1789-1902, 11 vols., 1907, 1910), Vol. 7, pp. 457-458.
1822RH005. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes, December 3, 1877, in his First Annual Message. James D. Richardson (U.S. Representative from Tennessee), ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published by Authority of Congress, 1897, 1899; Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1789-1902, 11 vols., 1907, 1910), Vol. 7, pp. 458, 469.
1822RH006. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes, October 30, 1878, in a Proclamation of a National Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer. James D. Richardson (U.S. Representative from Tennessee), ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published by Authority of Congress, 1897, 1899; Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1789-1902, 11 vols., 1907, 1910), Vol. 7, pp. 490-491.
1822RH007. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes, December 2, 1878, in his Second Annual Message to Congress. James D. Richardson (U.S. Representative from Tennessee), ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published by Authority of Congress, 1897, 1899; Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1789- 1902, 11 vols., 1907, 1910), Vol. 7, p. 492.
1822RH008. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes, November 3, 1879, in a Proclamation of a National Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer. James D. Richardson (U.S. Representative from Tennessee), ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published by Authority of Congress, 1897, 1899; Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1789-1902, 11 vols., 1907, 1910), Vol. 7, p. 548.
1822RH009. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes, December 1, 1879, in his Third Annual Message to Congress. James D. Richardson (U.S. Representative from Tennessee), ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published by Authority of Congress, 1897, 1899; Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1789- 1902, 11 vols., 1907, 1910), Vol. 7, p. 557.
1822RH010. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes, November 1, 1880, in a Proclamation of a National Day of Thanksgiving. James D. Richardson (U.S. Representative from Tennessee), ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published by Authority of Congress, 1897, 1899; Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1789-1902, 11 vols., 1907, 1910), Vol. 7, p. 599.
1822RH011. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes, December 6, 1880, in his Fourth Annual Message to Congress. James D. Richardson (U.S. Representative from Tennessee), ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published by Authority of Congress, 1897, 1899; Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1789- 1902, 11 vols., 1907, 1910), Vol. 7, p. 601.
1822RH012. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes, February 22, 1881, in an Executive Order issued from Washington, D.C., to the Secretary of War. James D. Richardson (U.S. Representative from Tennessee), ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published by Authority of Congress, 1897, 1899; Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1789-1902, 11 vols., 1907, 1910), Vol. 7, p. 640.
1822RH013. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Edmund Fuller and David E. Green, God in the White House- The Faiths of American Presidents (NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1968), pp. 135-36. Edmund Fuller and David E. Green, God in the White House-The Faiths of American Presidents (NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1968), p. 137.
1822RH014. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes. Methodist Church. John Wilson Taylor, M.A., Ph.D., et al., The Lincoln Library of Essential Information (Buffalo, New York: The Frontier Press Company, 1935), p. 391.
1822RH015. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes, in his diary. Edmund Fuller and David E. Green, God in the White House-The Faiths of American Presidents (NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1968), p. 137.
1822RH016. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes. Edmund Fuller and David E. Green, God in the White House- The Faiths of American Presidents (NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1968), p. 137. 1822RH016. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes, in his diary. Edmund Fuller and David E. Green, God in the White House-The Faiths of American Presidents (NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1968), pp. 133-134.
1822RH017. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes. Stephen Abbott Northrop, D.D., A Cloud of Witnesses (Portland, Oregon: American Heritage Ministries, 1987; Mantle Ministries, 228 Still Ridge, Bulverde, Texas), p. 223.
1822RH018. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes, March 13, 1892, in his Last Will and Testament. Edmund Fuller and David E. Green, God in the White House-The Faiths of American Presidents (NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1968), p. 138.
1822RH019. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes, January 1893, in a diary entry. Edmund Fuller and David E. Green, God in the White House-The Faiths of American Presidents (NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1968), p. 138.
1822RH020. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Rutherford Birchard Hayes, January 18, 1893, in a directive written by President Benjamin Harrison from his Executive Mansion in Washington, D.C., which became General Orders, No. 4., of the Adjutant-General's Office, Headquarters of the Army in Washington, D.C., January 19, 1893. James D. Richardson (U.S. Representative from Tennessee), ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published by Authority of Congress, 1897, 1899; Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1789-1902, 11 vols., 1907, 1910), Vol. IX, p. 383.