206 OHIO
HISTORY
Those interested in further inquiry into
the public reception of the Hayes policy may
consult with profit the incoming
correspondence of President Hayes from March 12,
1877, to March of 1880, Hayes Papers.
77. Photostatic copy of instructions of
Hayes to George W. McCrary, Secretary of
War, April 20, 1877, ibid.
78. Hayes, Diary and Letters, III,
430.
79. Ibid.
80.
Ibid., 431.
81. Bennett Milton Rich, The
Presidents and Civil Disorder (Washington, D. C.,
1941), 72-86; telegram of George
McCrary, Secretary of War to General W. S. Han-
cock, July 27, 1877, Hayes Papers.
82. Resolutions of the colored citizens
of Huntsville, Alabama, April [1877?], ibid.;
William F. Perkins to Hayes, March 17,
1877, ibid.; John C. Hamilton to W. K. Rogers,
private secretary to Hayes, March 17,
1877, ibid.; M. Auge, Norristown, Pennsylvania,
to Hayes, March 17, 1877, ibid.
83. Speech of Hayes to the African
Methodist Episcopal Delegation, March 23, 1877,
Hayes Papers.
84. The following information was cited
in Philip S. Foner, ed., The Life and Writ-
ings of Frederick Douglass (New York, 1950-1955), IV, 102.
85. Hayes, Diary and Letters, III,
443.
86. Speech of Hayes, Friday, August 17,
1877, on the green in front of his uncle
Austin Birchard's home, Fayetteville,
Vermont, Hayes Papers.
87. Address of Hayes at Markham House,
Atlanta, Georgia, September 22, 1877, ibid.
88. Ibid.
89. Ibid.
90. Speech of Hayes at Nashville,
Tennessee, September 19, 1877, ibid.; speech at
Wartrace, September 20, ibid.; address
at Chattanooga, Tennessee, ibid.
91. December 3, 1877, Richardson, Messages,
VII, 459.
92. Wade Hampton to Hayes, March 25,
1878, Hayes Papers.
93. Hayes, Diary and Letters, III,
501-502.
94. Ibid., 508-509.
95. Philip Little to Hayes, October 13,
1878, Hayes Papers.
96. Hayes, Diary and Letters, III,
505.
97. Hayes to Bryan, February 2, 1882,
Hayes Papers.
98. W. E. Chandler on the Hayes policy,
December 27, 1877, copy of newspaper
clipping in The Rutherford B. Hayes Library, Fremont,
Ohio.
99. Frederick Douglass to Hayes, July,
1881, Hayes Papers; Foner, Frederick Doug-
lass, IV, 417-418.
100. A. M. Middlebrook, Pine Bluff,
Arkansas, to Benjamin Harrison, July 16, 1888,
Benjamin Harrison Papers, Library of
Congress, Vol. 34, No. 7268-7271; John E. Bryant
to Benjamin Harrison, [1889], ibid., Vol.
64, No. 15809-15818; ibid., No. 14549; George
F. Hoar, Autobiography of Seventy
Years (New York, 1903), II, 13-14.
101. John W. Burgess, The
Administration of President Hayes (New York, 1916), 90.
102. Charles Beard, The Presidents in
American History (New York, 1935), 92.
103. Rayford Logan, The Negro in
American Life and Thought, 3, 16, 17, 29.
104. Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Teach the
Freeman: The Correspondence of Rutherford B.
Hayes and the Slater Fund for Negro
Education, 1881-1887 (Baton Rouge,
1959), I, xliv.
RUTHERFORD B.
HAYES AND THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
1. Cleveland Plain Dealer, January
14, 1893.
2. Ibid., January 18, 1893; Harry
Barnard, Rutherford B. Hayes and His America
(Indianapolis, 1954), 522.
3. Hayes was a board member of the
Peabody Education Fund, the Slater Education
Fund, Western Reserve University, Ohio
Wesleyan University, Mount Union College,
and Green Springs Academy. He also
served as president of the National Prison Asso-
ciation.
4. This brief sketch was taken from
Alexis Cope, History of the Ohio State Univer-
sity, Thomas C. Mendenhall, ed., (Columbus, 1920), I, 4-20.
5. U.S., Statutes at Large, XIV,
208.
6. Annual Message of the Governor of
Ohio to the Fifty-ninth General Assembly,
at the Session, commencing January 3,
1870 (Columbus, 1870), 9.