Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes

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Rutherford B. Hayes
1877-1881

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“With respect to the two distinct races whose peculiar relations to each other have brought upon us the deplorable complications and perplexities which exist in those States, it must be a government which guards the interests of both races carefully and equally. It must be a government which submits loyally and heartily to the Constitution and the laws—the laws of the nation and the laws of the States themselves—accepting and obeying faithfully the whole Constitution as it is.”
-Rutherford B. Hayes

“In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.”
-Rutherford B. Hayes

“He was a patriotic citizen, a lover of the …show more content…
People were outraged at first because the election’s strange outcome. Samuel J. Tilden was running against Hayes and won with a vote 184 electoral votes to Hayes's’ 165 votes with 20 votes not counted for. To settle who the 20 lost votes should go to, a 15 person electoral commission was formed. The results were tight, but with a 8-7 vote, all of the 20 electoral votes went to Hayes and he won the election 185-184. People were outraged by the results so an informal compromise was made to please the Southerners so Hayes officially ended the reconstruction era by extracting the last troops from the South. Since the South didn't have anyone there to enforce laws anymore, the whites started discriminating the African americans. It would be about 100 years more before the African Americans got to fully enjoy the rights that they deserved. There was lots of turmoil in the south as the African Americans got unwillingly treated …show more content…
This may be because 80-90 percent of people who could vote ( White, Black, etc.) voted in the election of 1876. Civil servants are the government’s civilian employees, such as an employee of the mint or post office. Under the Spoils System—famous from Andrew Jackson—jobs like these went to people whose only qualifications were their political connections. However, Hayes believed that government jobs should not be given as political rewards and in June of 1877, he issued an executive order which barred civil servants from taking part in political activities. He also supported the efforts of Interior Secretary Carl Schurz to develop competitive exams for hiring and promotion, but they could not convince Congress to act on large-scale reform. Hayes decided to appoint cabinet members based on merit and not political considerations which upset many Republicans because one member was an ex-confederate and the other had left the party as a liberal
Republican. In addition, he removed several federal officials who he said were misusing their offices for political gain. The end of the reconstruction era limited African Americans from voting from then
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