Year: 1876

| performance Of his duties satisfactory. If
elected | shall conduct the administration
OF the government upon these principles,
and all constitutional powers vested in the
executive will be employed to establish
this reform. The declaration Of principles
by the Cincinnati convention, makes no
announcement in favor of single Presi-
dental term. do not assume to add to
that declaration, but believing that re-
storation of the civil service to the system
established by Washington and followed
by the early Presidents, can be best accom-
plished by an executive who is under no
temptation to use the patronage Of his
Office to promote his own reelection, de-
sire to perform that which regard as a
duty in stating now my infexible purpose,
if elected, not to be candidate for elec.
ton to second term.


On the currency question, | have fire.
quently expressed my views in public and
| stand by my record on this subject. l
regard all laws of the United States relat-
ingto the payment of the public indebted
ness, legal tender notes included, as con-
stituting pledge and moral obligation of
the government which must in good faith
be kept. 1t is my conviction that the feel
ing of uncertainty inseparable from an ir-
redeemable paper currency, with its fuc-
tuation Of values, is one of the great OBJ
stacles to a revival of confidence and busi-
ness and to return of prosperity. That
uncertainty can be ended in but one way,
the resumption of specie payment. But
the longer the instability connected with
our present money system is permitted to
continue, the greater will be the injury in
flicted upon our economical interests and
all classes Of society. If elected | shall
approve every appropriate measure to ac-
complish the end desired, and l shall
oppose any step backward. The resolu-
ton 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-
hended until by a constitutional amend
ment the schools are placed beyonl all
t. danger of sectarion control or interfer-
ence. The Republican party is pledged
to secure such an amendment


The resolution of the Convention on
the subject of the permanent pacifcation
of the country and complete protection of
all citizens in the free enjoyment of all
their constitutional rights, is timely and of
great Importance. The condition of the
Southern States attracts 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 was an intelligent and hon
est administration of the government
which will protect all classes Of citizens in
all their political 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 portion
of the people are habitually disregarded.
A division of political parties resting
merely upon distinctions of race or upon
sectional lines, is always unfortunate and
| may De DISASTROUS


The welfare of the South, alike with
that of every other part Of the country,
depends upon the attractions it can offer
to labor, to immigration and to labor; but
laborers will not go, and capital will not
be invested, where the constitution aud
laws are set at defiance, and distration ap.
prehension and alarm take the place Of
peaceloving, 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 material
prosperity of the Southern States can be
most effectually advanced bya hearty and
generous recognition Of the rights of all;
recognition without reserve or exception.
With such recognition fully accorded,
it will be practicable to promote, by the
influence of all legitimate agencies of the
general government, the efforts of the
people of those States to obtain for them
selves the blessings..of an honest and capa-
BILE local government.


If elected l shall consider it not only
my duty, but twill be my ardent DESIRE
to labor for the attainment of this end.
Let me assure my countrymen Of the
Southern States that if shall be charg
ed with the duty of organizing an admin
istration, it will be one which will regard
and cherish their truest interests; the in'
terests of white and of colored people both
and equally, and which will put forth its
best efforts in behalf ola civil polity
which will wipe out forever the dlstjnc-
ton between north and south in our COM
mon country. With a civil service organ
lied upon system which will secure pur-
ity, experience, efficiency and economy, a
strict regard for the public welfare, solely
in appointments, and speedy, thorough,
and unsparing prosecution and punish
ment of all public officers who betray Of
fetal trusts, with sound currency, with
education unsectarian and free to all, With
simplicity and frugalty in public md
private affairs and with fraternal spirit
of harmony pervading the people of all
sections and classes, we may reasonably
hope that the second century Of our exis-
tence as a nation will, by the blcssin- Of
God, be prominent as an era of gocd
feeling, and period of progress, prosper
ity and happiness.


Very respectfully your fellow citizen,
r.. B. HAYES.