Identifier: lifeofrutherford01lcwill (find matches)
Title: The life of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, nineteenth president of the United States
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Williams, Charles Richard, 1853-1927 Smith, William Henry, 1833-1896
Subjects: Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ariety of occasions and before audiences of every sort.While undoubtedly he carried with him in this advocacy the ^ Speaking to the same subject on Memorial Day, 1885, at Ripley, Ohio, Mr.Hayes said: I have said before and I repeat that the colored people are theonly people resident in our country when slavery existed who are in no senseresponsible for it. They were here by the misfortune of their ancestors, and bythe crime of ours. Slavery is responsible for the ignorance of the South. Who isresponsible for slavery? It was in the Union and in the Constitution when theywere formed. All who took part in forming or upholding them while slavery con-tinued are in some sense responsible for slavery. Let the nation then complete thework which was begim bj the soldiers who are honored to-day. The work of thewar was to .save the Union by abolishing slavery. It only remains to secure theresults of the war by giving to the emancipated race that education which will fitthem for their new duties.
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PRESIDENT AND MRS. HAYES AND WILLIAM HENRY SMITHOn the Piazza at Spiegel Grove, 18S9 PHILANTHROPIC ACTIVITIES 351 sympathies and support of the great majority of men of benevo-lent pubHc spirit, and while the Blair Bill more than once barelyfailed of passage, yet the prevailing sentiment of the country,as has already been noted, opposing so vast an extension ofnational authority, finally stamped the project with disap-proval. Mr. Hayes was disappointed at this result, but he found con-solation in the greater efforts put forth each year by the South-ern States to ease themselves of the burden of ignorance andin the constantly accelerated flow of private benevolence fromthe North into the less enlightened parts of the South. Howexigent were the needs of the South for assistance to give evenrudimentary school training to its vast horde of illiterate ne-groes and poverty-stricken whites, Mr. Hayes vividly realizedby reason of his activity as a member of the board of trusteesof the Peabody

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