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HAYES, Rutherford B. Remarks of President Hayes at the Celebration of General Garfield's Election, Cleveland, Ohio, November 4, 1880. 3 pages, 4to, paper wrappers, INSCRIBED AT TOP RIGHT CORNER OF TITLE PAGE: "with compliments R. B. Hayes."
HAYES'S ELECTION-NIGHT PRAISE FOR HIS SUCCESSOR, JAMES A. GARFIELD, delivered to an enthusiastic Republican crowd in Cleveland. A prefatory paragraph explains that "Immediately after the demonstration in the Public Square had come to a close, the torchlight companies and hundreds of citizens marched to the Kennard House and tendered a serenade to President Hayes. Bank Street filled with people and music. At 11.15 o'clock several prominent Republicans appeared on the balcony accompanied by the President..." Hayes then went on to sing the praises of his successor, whom he describes as: "A man of broad, liberal, and generous views, he will look over this whole country. Every section of it will be fairly and justly dealt with. He will say to the mistaken men of the South, 'You are to be treated precisely as the citizens of my own State are to be treated. [Applause.] All that we ask of you is that you shall faithfully obey the Constitution...'"
HAYES'S ELECTION-NIGHT PRAISE FOR HIS SUCCESSOR, JAMES A. GARFIELD, delivered to an enthusiastic Republican crowd in Cleveland. A prefatory paragraph explains that "Immediately after the demonstration in the Public Square had come to a close, the torchlight companies and hundreds of citizens marched to the Kennard House and tendered a serenade to President Hayes. Bank Street filled with people and music. At 11.15 o'clock several prominent Republicans appeared on the balcony accompanied by the President..." Hayes then went on to sing the praises of his successor, whom he describes as: "A man of broad, liberal, and generous views, he will look over this whole country. Every section of it will be fairly and justly dealt with. He will say to the mistaken men of the South, 'You are to be treated precisely as the citizens of my own State are to be treated. [Applause.] All that we ask of you is that you shall faithfully obey the Constitution...'"