Year: 1877

orally admitted. The evils which
afaict the Southern States, can only
be removed or remedied by the unio
ted and harmonious efforts of both
races actuated by motives Of mutual
sympathy and regard, and while in
duty bound and fully to protect the
rights of all, by every constitutional
means at the disposal of my adminis-
tration, am sincerely anxious to use
every Legitimate influence in favor of
honest and efficient local self-govern,
ment, as the true resource of those
States, for the promotion of the con-
tinual and effectual prosperity Of
citizens. In the effort I shall make
to accomplish tlis purpose, 1 ask the
cordial cooperation of all who cher
ish an interest in the welfare of the
country, trusting that party ties, and
the prejudices of race will be freely
surrendered in behalf of the great
purpose to be accomplished in the
important work of restoring the South
1t is not the political situation alone
that merits attention, the material
development of that sections of the
country has been arrested by the &C.
rious political revolution through
which it has passed, and now needs
and deserves the considerate care OF
the National government, within the
just limits presented by the Constitu-
ton, aud wise public economy; but
at the basis of all prosperity for all
that as we'll as fjr every other part
of the country, lies the improvem ent
of the intellectual and moral condi-
tion of the people--universal suffrage
should rest upon universal edu>
cation. To this end liberal and per-
manent provisions should be made
for the support of free schools by the
State governments; and if need, sup-
plemented by Legitimate aid from the
national authority.


Let me assure my coantrymen of
the Southern States, that it is my
earnest desire to regard and promote
their truest interests-the interest of
the white and Of tho colored people
equally, and to put forth my best ef~
forts in behalf of a civil policy
which will for ever wipe out in Our
political affairs the color line, and
the distinction between the North
and the South, to the end that we
may have not merely united South,
but united country, / ask the at~
tention of the publicto the paramount
necessity of reform in our civil SER
vice-a reform not merely as to Ger
tain abuses and practices of 80 called
official patronage, which have come
to have the sanction of usage I'D the
several departments of our Govern
ment, but change in the system of
appointment itself, reform that shall
be thorough, radical and complete, a
return to the principles and practi-
ces of the founders of the govern
ment. They neither expected nor
desired from public officers partisan
service. They meant that public Off
GERS should owe their whole service
to the government and to the people.
They meant that the public officer
should be secure in his tenure as long
as his personal character remained
untarnished, and the pei formance of
his duties was satisfactory. They
held that appointments to Office were
not to be made nor expected merely
as rewards for partisan services nor
merely on the nomination Of mem-
bers of Congress as being entitled in
any respect to the control Of such
appointments. The fact that both
the great political parties of the
country, in declaring their principles
prior to the election, gave a promi.
nent place to the subjects of reform
of our civil service, recognizing and
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