Year: 1876

age OF MS once, TO promote MS OWL
reelection, desire to perform what
/ regard IS duty in stating now my
infexible purpose, if elected, not tc
be candidate for election to sec.
ond term.


On the currency question 1 have
frequently expressed my views in
public, and stand by my record on
this subject. l regard all the laws
of the United States relating to the
payment of the public Indebtedness,
the legal tender notes included, as
constituting pledge and the moral
obligation of the Government, which
must, in good faith, be kept. 1t is
my conviction that the feeling of un-
certainty, inseparablc from an ire
deemable paper currency, with its
fluctuations of values, is one of the
great obstacles to a revival of conf
denee and business, and to q return
of prosperity. That uncertainty
can be ended but one way-the re-
sumption of specie payment. But
the longer the instability connected
with our present money system is
permitted to continue, the greater
will be the injury inflicted upon our
economical interests and all classes
of society. If elected, / shall ap-
prove every appropriate measure to
accomplish the desired end, and
shall oppose any step backward.


The resolution with respect to the
public school system, is one which
should receive the hearty support of
the American people. Agitation
upon this subject is to be appre-
hcnded, until by Constitutional
amendment, the schools are placed
beyond all danger of sectarian con-
troll or interference. The Republi-
can party is pledged to secure such
an amendment.


The resolution of the Convention
on the subject of the permanent
pacifieation of the country, and the
complete protection of all its citi-
zens in the free enjoyment of all
their Constitutional rights, is timely
and of great importance. The con-
dition of the Southern States at
tracts the attention and commands
the sympathy of the people of the
whole Union. In their progressive
recovery from the effects of the war,
their first necessity is an intelligent
and honest administration of Gov
ernment, which shall protect all
classes of citizens in all their politi-
cal and private rights. What the
South most needs is peace, and peace
depends upon the supremacy of law.
There can be no enduring peace if
the constitutional rights of any por-
tion of the people are habitually dis
regarded. A division of political
parties resting merely upon the dis
tictiens az race, or upon sectional
lines, is always unfortunate, and may
be sikpstrans. The welfare of the
Sousl! ssii..se zita that afs every other
part, Of the country, depends upon
the attractions it can offer to labor,
to immigration and to capital. But
laborefs will not go, and capital will
not be ventnred, where the Constitu-
ton and the laws are set at defiance,
and distraction, apprehension and
alarm take the place of peace-loving
and law abiding social life. All parts
of the Constitution are sacred, and
must be sacredly observed, the parts
that are new no less than the parts
that are old. The moral and mate
rial prosperity Of the Southern
States can be most effectually ad-
vanced by a hearty and generous
recognition of the rights of all, by
ala recognition without reserve or
exception. With such a recognition
fully accorded, it will be practicable
to promote, by the influence of all
the legitimate agencies of the gen
eral Government, the efforts OF the
people of those States to obtain for
themselves the blessings of honest
and capable local Government. If
elected, 1 shall consider it not only
my duty, but it will be my ardent de-
sire, to labor for the attainment of
this end. Let me assure my coun-
trymen of the Southern States that
if should be charged with the duty
of organizing an administration, it
will be one which will regard and
cherish their truest interests-the
interests of the white and of the
colored people both and equally
and which will put forth its best
efforts in behalf of civil policy
which will wipe out forever the dis
tinctions between North and South
in our common country.


With a civil service organized upon
system which will secure purity,
experience, efficiency and economy, a
regard for the public welfare solely
in appointments, and the speedy,
thorough, and unsparing prosecution
and punishment of all public officers
who betray official trusts; with a
sound currency; with education, un-
sectarian and free to all; with sim
plicity and frugality in public and
private affairs, and with a fraternal
spirit of han mony pervading the peo-
pie of all sections and classes, we
may reasonably hope that the second
century of our existence as nation
will, by the blessings of God, be pre-
eminent as an era of good feeling
and a period of progress, prosperity
and happiness.


Very respectfully, your fellow-citi
zen. r. B. HAYES.
Dox;c nroarvofor,y hoe raooivaf