{"1": {"fulltext": "E\\nK\\nRUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES", "height": "3249", "width": "2460", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class\\nl l i;SKNTi:i) MY", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "r* r*w\\nThe Grbivt Commoner of Ohio.\\nDISCOURSE\\nIN MEMORY OK\\nm\\nA\\nn\\nHAY\\nS\\nDELIVERED IN THE\\nFirst Congregational Church,\\nCOLUMBUS, OHIO,\\nJANUARY 22, 1808,\\nBY\\nRkv. Washington Gladden, D. D.", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Ti\\n8 00", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES.\\nOCTOBER 4, 1822. JANUARY U, 1893.\\nTT7E have studied here, more tlian once, the lesson\\nof some great life. In no other form does\\nTruth present herself with so much quickening for the\\nintellect, with so much invigoration of the will. For\\nthis reason chiefly Avas the AVord made flesh. All\\nhighest revelation to men must come through the form\\nof a man. The storv of a life worthily lived is more\\nconvincing than logic, more instructive than phil-\\nosophy it carries an element which transcends all\\nthe formularies of science it contains within itself\\nall that gives the moving thrill to music, and immor-\\ntality to verse.\\nThrice, already, since the summer rest, have we\\nbeen invited to such a sympathetic study of great\\nlives that had suddenly ceased from among us the\\nEditor and Essayist, Curtis; our Quaker Poet, Whit-\\ntier; the Laureate of England, Tennyson. To-night\\nwe are called together to reflect for an hour upon", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "tlie meatiinp: of a liH whose siuMrMi foniiinaiion lias\\nbrought to this commonwealth and this nation a great\\nhereavement. To the people of Ohio and especial ly\\nto the people of Columbus, the death of President\\nHayes comes a great deal closer than tliat of either\\nof the notable men wluun I have named. To them\\nour debt was large, but it was mainly intellectual.\\nFor the enriching of our minds, for the quickening of\\nour better purposes we owed them much. But Presi-\\ndent Haves has been our neighbor and our friend; he\\nhas walked with iis l)y the way; he has talked with\\nus at our firesides; in our public assemblies he was a\\nnot unwonted, and always welcome presence; in a\\ngreat manv of the concerns in which our hearts were\\nmost engaged, he was our wise counsellor and stanch\\nhelj er: the abrupt and unexpected cessation of a torce\\nlike this is a real shock to our community; and the\\nabsence of such a comrade from our toil, of sudi a\\nfriend from our familiar circles, brings a sense of ])er-\\nsonal loss and loneliness.\\nI have named him the (Treat Commoner. This title\\nwas given lirst to William Pitt, in the days before he\\nwas Earl of Chatham; it wa the ])opular tribute to a\\nlofty spirit who was the lirst to discern. as one of\\nliioirrapher s ])hra s il. that public oiiinou. tliouirh", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "7\\ngenerally slow to form and slow to act, is in the end\\nthe paramount power in the state and the first to\\nuse it. not in an emergency merely, but throughout a\\nlong political career. William Pitt was the Great\\nCommoner so long as he kept in touch with the peo-\\nple no man ever had greater power in England he\\nwas put at the head ol the greatest ministry that ever\\nruled England, not because King or Parliament wished\\nit, but because the people would have it. Years after-\\nward, when he suffered himself to be elevated to the\\npeerage, he came down from his throne. The title has\\ndescended to the man who is now Prime Minister of\\nEngland, and who has won it very much as Pitt first\\nwon it, by identifying himself with the people. Warned\\nby the fate of Pitt, it is not at all probable that Glad-\\nstone will ever be tempted to exchange for the bauble\\nof a peerage that place which he holds in the hearts\\nof his countrj^men.\\nOur own Great Commoner has won the title by the\\nsame qualities. He, too, was essentially and pre-em-\\ninently a man of the people. From the common\\npeople he rose, and he never rose above them. That\\npersistent determination of his to walk in the ranks\\nin the Grand Army parades has been censured by\\nsome as afiectation. But to President Hayes it was", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "8\\nthe siiiii)le exi)ivssi()n of a lact wliidi ho \\\\voul l neither\\ndeny nor ignore. He was a plain citizen, nothing\\nmore; he would not masquerade as anything else\\nWhile he hehl the chief magistracy of the nation he\\nmagnified the oflice when he laid it down, he returned\\nto his place, lie knew the dignity of otfice; he knew,\\nalso, the dignity of rivate citizenship.\\nThe relations of President Hayes to the Common-\\nwealth of Ohio are. as I have said, peculiarly intimate.\\nHe was born upon iier soil; most of his education was\\ngained in her schools; all his professional life was\\nspent in tliis State; the troops that he led in the war\\nof the rebellion were nearly all Ohio soldiers; Ohio\\nsent him to represent her in the National Congress,\\nand thrice made him her (lovernor; it was from the\\nCapital of Ohio that he was translated to the White\\nHouse at Washington and since he laid aside the\\narduous burdens of government, this State has been\\nhis constant home. To multitudes in other States his\\ngreat services have endeared him but Ohio has the\\nlargest share in his renown. I think it must be allowed\\nthat he was iier greatest citizen the linest product,\\non the whole, of lu-r century of history. Tiiat is a\\nlarge claim, but I advance it with some contidence.\\nWhen the future historian comes to lest bv the stau-", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "d\\ndards of impartial criticism, the characters and the\\nservices of the men of Ohio who have been at the\\nfront in the nineteenth century, I tliink that the name\\nof Rutherford Birchard Hayes will lead all the rest.\\nGrant and Sherman and Sheridan were greater gen-\\nerals; Garfield was a greater genius; and there have\\nbeen greater orators and greater jurists and greater\\neducators; but take him all in all, for an all-round\\nman citizen, soldier, statesman, scholar, man of\\nbooks, man of brains, man of affairs, husband, father,\\nphilanthropist, neighbor, friend, there is not another\\nwho will measure quite as large as the good man who\\nhas just gone.\\nI have named Garfield; there is a somewhat strik-\\ning parallel between the origin of these two Ohio\\nPresidents. Abram Garfield came, with a little family,\\nfrom Central New York to Cuyahoga County in 1830;\\nmade a fairly prosperous beginning of a home there,\\nand suddenly died leaving a widow with four young\\nchildren, the youngest of whom, then but two years\\nold, was to be the future President.\\nRutherford Hayes, a thrifty farmer and trader of\\nVermont, came to Ohio in 1817, and settled in Dela-\\nware, where, after five years of successful industry, he\\ndied, leaving a wife and two children. Three months", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10\\nalter }ii latlior*? initim-ly leath. liutlioiionl Birchard\\nHayes was l)orii.\\nNeither nl tliese l)oys ever knew a fatlier s care; but\\neach had a courageous and devoted mother, and owed\\nthe best part of liis character to her inlluence.\\nThe home of the Garlields, alter the death of the\\nfather, was for years the abode f)f pincliing penury;\\nthere were months when the only food was the meal\\nof Indian corn, and when the m(\u00c2\u00bbther went -upperless\\nto bed that the children might not be hungiy. From\\nsucli want as this the children left fatherless in the\\nDelaware home did not suffer; enough was left to keep\\nthem in comfort, and although frusralitv was necessarv,\\nthere was always plenty. The unmarried brother of\\nMrs. Hayes, Sardis Birchard, a man oi refined taste,\\nof great public spirit, and of ample means, was her\\ngood counselor and the guardian of her children. H.\\nwas the fortune of this uncle, which, in later life,\\nPresident Hayes received by bequest; it was in the\\nhome built by his uncle in Fremont, that the Presi-\\ndent has lived since 1874,\\nNot long after her lni baiid s .k-ath, the eldest son of\\n.Mrs. Hayes was drownetl; and there were left to the\\nwidow oidy two of her children. Willi the sister who\\nwas only a viar or two his senior, Ivutherford Haves", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "11\\ngrew u\\\\) in a most dear and lender adection. The\\nlamily lived in a plain brick house in the village of\\nDelaware, but there was a farm in the vicinity from\\nwhich they drew many of their supplies, and to which\\nthe children were always fond of resorting. Mr.\\nHowells s sketch of these early years will bear reciting:\\nThe greatest joys of a happy childhood were the\\nvisits the brother and sister made to the farm in the\\nsugar season, in cherry time and when the walnuts\\nand hickory nuts were ripe and its greatest cross was\\nthe want of children s books, with which the village\\nlawyer s family was supplied. When the uncle Birchard\\nbegan in business he satislied their heart s desire for\\nthis kind of literature, and books of a grave and mature\\nsort seem to have always abounded with them. They\\nread Hume s and Smollett s English history together;\\nthe sister of twelve years interpreted Shakespeare to\\nthe brother of ten they read the poetry of Mr. Thomas\\nMoore, (then so much finer and grander than now)\\nand they paid Sir Walter Scott the tribute of drama-\\ntizing together his Lady of the Lake, and were duly\\nastonished and dismayed to learn afterwards that they\\nwere not the sole inventors of the dramatization of\\npoems that even their admired Lady of the Lake\\nhad long been upon the stage. The intluence of an", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "ii\\nokler sister upon a generous an l manly boy is always\\nvery great and il is largely to this sister s unfailing\\ninstincts and ardent enthusiasm lor books that her\\nbrother [owedj his life long pleasure in the best litera-\\nture. She not only read with him; she studied at\\nhome the same lessons in J^atin and Greek which he\\nrecited privately to a gentleman of the place [it was\\n.Judge Sherman Finch, of Delaware, with whom the\\nlad began these studies] she longed to be a boy, that\\nshe might go to college with him. In the futile v:ay\\nshe must, so remote from all instruction, she strove to\\nimprove herself in drawing and painting. One of the\\ntirst schoolmasters was Daniel Granger, a little thin,\\nwiry Yankee, of terrible presence, but of good enough\\nheart, wh(\u00c2\u00bbm the love he bore to learning obliged\\nto llog boys of twice his own bulk, with furious threats\\nof throwing them through the school house walls, and\\nof making them dance like parched peas, which\\ndreadful behavior and menaces rendered all the\\nyounger children horribly afraid of him and perhaps\\ndid not so much advance the brother s and sister s\\neducation as tlieir j)rivale studies and reading had\\ndone; that is fre(ju ntly the result of a too athletic\\nzeal for letters on tlit- part of instructors. The chil-\\ndren were not separated for any length of time until", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "13\\nthe brother s fourteenth year, when he went away to\\nthe Academy at Norwalk, Ohio, and after that they\\nwere little together during his preparation for College\\nin Middletown, Connecticut, and his College years at\\nKenyon College, Ohio. But throughout this time they\\nwrote regularly to each other; she took the deepest\\ninterest in all his studies their devoted affection con-\\ntinued in their maturer life, and when her death\\nparted them it left him with the sorrow of an irrepar-\\nable loss.\\nThe Middletown principal strongly urged that Ruth-\\nerford should go to Yale but in the family councils\\nit was judged inexpedient. The necessary expense at\\nNew Haven, said the Connecticut dominie, including\\neverything except clothing and pocket money, would\\nrange from $150 to $200. That was in 1838. The\\nfrugality of the family life is indicated by the fact\\nthat so much as this could not well be spared, though\\nit is probable that the wish to see the boy a little\\noftener than would be possible in that banishment,\\nhelped to fix his location as a student at Kenyon\\nCollege. His preparation for College had been\\nthorough, and he took up the work of the Freshman\\nyear with no sense of a burden. I must find room\\nhere for another bright paragraph from Mr. Howells", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14\\nHis fellow students of that day remember his\\noverflowing jollity and drollery more distinctly than\\nhis ardor in study, though his standing was always\\ngood. Even in the serious shades of Middletown his\\nmirthful spirit and his love of humor bubbled over\\ninto his exercise books, where his translations from\\nHomer are interspersed with mock-heroic law- pleas\\nfrom Western courts evidently transcribed from\\nnewspapers and every sort of grotesque extrava-\\ngance in prose or rhyme. The increased dignity of\\na collegian seems to have rebuked this school-boy\\nfondness for crude humor; a commonplace book of\\nthe most unexceptionable excerpts from classic authors\\nof various languages records the taste of this time,\\nand the reflections on abstract questions in young\\nHayes s journals ai e coiiimonly of that final \\\\vi il()m\\nwhich the experience of mankind lias taught us to\\nexpect in the speculations of Freshmen and Soph-\\nomores. They are good fellows, hearty, happy,\\nrunning over with })ranks and jests, and joyous\\nand original in everN thing but their philosophy,\\nwhich must be forgiven them for the sake of the\\nmany people who remain Sophomores all their lives.\\nHayes was a boy who loved all honest manly sports.\\nHe was a capital shot with the rifle, and ho allowed", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "15\\na due share of his time to hunting, as well as fishing\\nto which he was even more devoted swimming\\nand skating.\\nAt the first Christmas vacation he walked home\\nforty miles\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in twelve hours; and after Christmas\\nreturned on foot to College through snow four inches\\ndeep. It was a vigorous lad of sixteen who could\\nventure on a feat like that. It reminds us of\\nCarlyle trudging from Annandale to Edinburgh, in\\nhis college days; and gives us a glimpse of the\\nhardships undergone by college boys of a day not\\nvery remote, in pursuit of education. The path is\\neasier in these days; I wonder if the prize at the\\nend of it is w^orth as much now as it was then?\\nThat discipline of heroic effort and heroic sacrifice\\nI wonder if anything in the great laboratories, and\\nthe great libraries, and the multifarious courses of\\ninstruction, quite makes up for the lack of that.\\nYoung Hayes was a jovial comrade and a vigorous\\nlover of out-door life, but he was a good student.\\nHis diary shows how seriously he takes himself in\\nhand how frankly he recognizes his own defects and\\nfoibles and sets himself to mend them; how eagerly\\nhe looks forward to the life before him. He is\\ngoing to be a lawyer, and he sees that that means", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "16\\nhard work: Vmt lip ip not afraifl of it. Political\\ncontests interest him keenly he does not disguise\\nfrom himself the fact that he may take part in\\nthem by and by, nor does he blush to own to him-\\nself that he has aspirations for service in this line.\\nBut there are a few sentences from this college boy s\\njournal which possess great significance, for they\\ncontain the master light of all his seeing. The\\nreputation which I desire, he says, is not that\\nmomentary eminence which is gained without merit\\nand lost without regret and then he copies and\\nadopts this golden maxim Give me the popularity\\nthat rims after^ not that lohich is sought for. It\\nwas the elder Pitt the Great Commoner of Eng-\\nland who said that first, but hardly lived up to it.\\nThe great Commoner of Ohio made the sentiment his\\nown in his boyhood, and never swerved from it to the\\nend of his life. He never held an ofHce to which\\nhe asked any man to nominate him he never wore\\nan honor that was not freely conferred upon him.\\nHe could no more have been an oliioe-seeker than\\nhe could have been a pickpocket. P]verv instinct of\\nhis nature would have revolted at the suggestion\\nthat he enter the political field as a candidate and\\ntry to capture a nomination.", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "17\\nThis might serve to indicate the temper nnd quality\\nof this jovial-hearted, serious-minded, high-spirited\\nboy. But there is another little sketch written by\\none who was in college with him that 1 must let\\nyou see.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Hayes was the champion in college, in debate,\\nclass-section, and in the foot-path; cheerful, sanguine,\\nand confident of the future, never seeing cause for\\ndesponding was a young man of substantial physique\\nin my whole acquaintance I never knew of his being\\nsick one day, and so free from any weaknesses as\\nto seem indefatigable. His greatest amusements were\\nfishing and chess. In company he was humorous to\\nhilarity; told quick, pungent stories, many of which\\nI remember with laughter to this day took things\\nas they came; used to laugh at the shape of our\\nboarding-house roast beef, but still ate.\\nI do not think he had many intimate friends.\\nThose with whom he was intimate were, and still\\nare, the best men of my acquaintance. I don t\\nremember a single man with whom he was intimate\\nbut that has been successful in his vocation.\\nIn his political labors I am sure he never entangled\\nhimself by promises, or by such intimacies as to bind\\nhim, but never shrank from tackling any subject or", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "18\\nmeasure of policy when brought to him. lie never\\nwalked around anything, but took it by the horns\\nand shook it, or was shaken. I think him a square\\nspecimen of an Anglo-Saxon honest man, stubbornly\\nsquare in his views; of simple ideas of life; that is,\\nhe had such ideas as would make him prefer heap-\\ning round measure of good to pretension and false\\nappearances.\\nThe independence of his character was shown on\\ncommencement day at Kenyon. He was valedictorian,\\nand I remember how grand lie looked in my boy\\neves, because he was not able to have splendid, new\\nclothes, and was independent enough to do without.\\nThat was the first impression made on my mind,\\nevidencing a pure, thorough self-sacriiice. I was but\\nsixteen years old, and I think 1 see him now, with\\nwhat we knew then as a box coat with side-pockets,\\nwhen ail the rest were dressed in new black cloth\\nfrock-coats.\\nAny one with an eye lor a man will detect one\\nliere, I think, in this twenty-year-old boy stepping\\nout of college at tiic head of his class, with :i dignity\\nand force of character that doesn t need to borrow\\nmuch from the tailor or the dancing-master. He i.s\\nat the head, thus far, and I don t think that we", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "19\\nshall look for him in the rear at any point in the\\nmarch.\\nFrom Kenyon he comes to Colnmbus, and here\\nbegan, in 1842, his law studies in the office of Spar-\\nrow c c Matthews, keeping his hold on the good\\nliterature all the while, and beginning, also, the study\\nof German, After ten months of this private study,\\ngood fortune sends him to the Harvard law school,\\nwhere the attraction, mentioned in his diary, was\\nthe instruction of those eminent jurists and teachers.\\nStory and Greenleaf. Rare, indeed, was the oppor-\\ntunity of personal contact with these giants of juris-\\nprudence, whom the law student of to day can know\\nonly through the desiccated medium of treatises and\\ntext books. The sketches of these two great charac-\\nters, and of their methods of instruction, which Ave\\nfind in his diary, show how deep was the impression\\nwhich they made upon his mind. To Story, especially,\\ndoes he continually return, with notes of admiration\\nfor the versatility, the humor, the unstudied eloquence,\\nabove all the lofty ideality and conscientiousness of\\nthe great jurist. It was much more than a good\\nknowledge of law that he gained in this school he\\ngained, also, the confirmation and enlargement of all\\nthe best purposes of his life.", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20\\nIn the stimulating literary atmosphere of Cam-\\nbridge and Boston his tastes are gratified; he hears\\nlectures by Mr. Longfellow on literature; he listens\\nto Mr. Bancroft, and President Sparks, and Richard\\nHenry Dana at the political meetings, where Web-\\nster, and Choate, and Winthrop, and John Quincy\\nAdams are speakers, he is an eager and observant\\nauditor. In 1844 his studies are completed; he is\\nadmitted to the bar, and begins the practice of the\\nlaw in company with Mr. Ralph P. Buckland, in\\nthe town of Fremont, then known as Lower San-\\ndusky,\\nBut the overwork ol the last few years had told\\nupon him, and there were grave signs of pulmonary\\ntrouble. He was compelled, very speedily, to give up\\nall work, and to l)etake himself to the sunny South,\\nwhere, with an oUl Texan class-mate, a few months of\\nout-of-door life brought him perfect restoration.\\nReturning, he paused lor a few days at Cincinnati,\\nand then determined to make it his home. Another\\nlaw partnership was formed, and the young man sat\\ndown, his law books supplemented always l)y the best\\nliterature of the day, and waited for the coming\\nclients. The young lawyer is a])t to iiave plenty\\nof time to review his legal bludies; but iiuL every", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "21\\nyoung lawyer finds so much recreation in other good\\nbooks as young Hayes seems to have done. He\\nwas soon a member ot a famous literary clul) of\\nCincinnati, including men like Chase, and Corwin, and\\nEwing, and Hoadly, and Stanley Matthews; and the\\nmeetings of the club were full of mental invigoration\\nand refreshment. Presently, the clients began to\\narrive not in troops, of course, but with encouraging\\nfrequency. A notable case that soon occurred was\\nthat of a poor, under-witted creature, Nancy Farrer,\\nwho had been made the dupe and tool of a fiend,\\nand under his instigation had poisoned several persons.\\nTo her defense he was assigned by the Court. Mr.\\nHayes believed her to be mentally incapable of\\ncrime, and gave himself with all his energies to the\\ntask of saving her life. At the first trial she Avas\\nconvicted, but a writ of error was granted, and in\\nthe Supreme Court his plea was triumphant; the\\njudgment of the court below was reversed; the prisoner\\nwas granted a new trial; but before that could take\\nplace an inquest of lunacy pronounced the poor\\ncreature insane, and she was sent to the asylum.\\nThis victory gave Mr. Hayes much reputation, and\\nhis practice soon began to increase.\\nIt was about this time, in December, 1852, that", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "ho was married to Miss Luoy Ware Webb, of Cin-\\ncinnati, or a life that was lull of felicities, this\\nwas the one most benianant fortune. Rarely. I suppose,\\nhas any wedded pair been more happily mated;\\neach found in the other all that choice could com-\\npass or heart ct)uld crave; and the home set u])\\nforty years ago in Cincinnati came a})out as near to\\nthe ideal as we are apt to come in America. Many\\nof you knew Mrs. Hayes, as I did not; and 1 will\\nnot attempt iier portraiture. But the whole nation\\nknows her as one of the noblest of our matrons,\\nillustrious for her grace, her winning kindness, her\\nlofty character; worthy to rank with ]\\\\[artha Wash-\\nington and Abigail Adams, among the highest types\\nof American womanhood. Ivutherford Birchard Hayes\\nwas a pretty well-lniilt man already, but this mar-\\nriage brought him a great reintbrcement. To such\\nan intluence as this his mind was open; and it is\\nperfectly safe to say that to wiiatever was lofty in\\nhis aims or heroic in his endeavors the judgment of\\nhis wife gave conlirmation and support.\\nIn the Fremont campaign Mr. Hayes was an active\\nparticipant, and a mourner, of course, at the Path-\\ntinder s defeat. When ihc next campaign came on\\n\\\\iv threw himself into il willi new ardor, and hailed", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "23\\nthe election of Lincoln as tlie bee:inninp; of the end.\\nAnd when Snniter fell and the first call for troops\\nwas heard, his answer was prompt and clear.\\nJudge Matthews and I, so he wrote on May 15,\\n186J, have agreed to go into the service lor the\\nw;y._if possible, into the same regiment. I spoke\\nmy feelings to him, which he said were his own,\\nthat this was a great and necessary war, and that it\\ndemanded the whole power ol the country; that I\\nv;oiild prefer to go into it, if I kneio that I icas to\\nhe killed in the course of it rather than to live\\nthrough and after it without taking any part in it.\\nSoon a OoloneFs commission came to him from\\nPresident Lincoln probably at the suggestion of\\nSecretary Chase; but he sent it back; he knew he\\nwas not yet fit to lead a regiment he would begin\\nlower. Meantime he was studying Hardee dili-\\ngently, and in a few weeks a Major s commission\\ncame to him from Governor Dennison, assigning him\\nto the Twenty-third Ohio, whose Colonel was Rose-\\ncrans, and whose Lieut. Colonel was Stanley Mat-\\nthews. Two days later he was here at Camp Chase;\\nand by the 25th of July the regiment, raw enough,\\ndoubtless, was on its way to West Virginia.\\nI cannot tell the story of that faithful and heroic", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a02 4\\nservice. Il is cMi()u;rh to say tliat Kiitlierlonl Hayes\\nproved liinisell a clear headed, capable oflicer, and\\na gallant leader ol men. Cool and unimpassioned as\\nhe ordinarily seemed, he was a dashing leader of a\\ncharge, and his bravery on many a hotly contested\\nlield was amplv demonstrated. Four times he was\\nwounded once or twice severely; but he never left the\\nfield while he had strength to stand. He never sought\\npromotion, but his service demanded it, and the end\\nof the war found him wearing the epaulettes of a\\nmajor general bj brevet.\\nIn the last year of the war, he was nominated\\nfor Congress while in the field, and somebody was\\nso infelicitous as to propose to him that he get a\\nleave of absence and come home and stump his\\ndistrict; Your suggestion, he answered, was cer-\\ntainly made williout reflection. An officer fit for\\nduty, who at this crisis would abandon his post to\\nelectioneer for Congress, ought to be scalped. You\\nmay feel perfectly sure I shall do no such thing.\\nHe was elected, nevertheless but he did not take\\nhis seat until the war was over, and his soldiers\\nwere mustered out of the service.\\nIt was in December, ISOi that he first assumed\\nliie duties of i\u00c2\u00ab iiiosi-iituli ve at Washington, mid at", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "25\\nonce began, in his qniet, unostentatious way, to serve\\nhis country. As Chairman ol the Library Committee,\\nhis care was given to the perfection of that great\\ninstrument of knowledge; chiefly by his efforts the\\nspace and material were increased threefold. He\\nmade few speeches to one who wrote urging that\\nhe add to the wordy deluge, he answered curtly: I\\nam disgusted at the shameful waste of time and\\npatience the so-called orators of Washington make.\\nBefore the end of his term he was renominated by\\nacclamation, and re-elected by a majority greater\\nthan that of any other candidate upon his ticket.\\nBut Ohio had other work for him, and much against\\nhis own will he was called out of Congress in 1867\\nto lead his party as its candidate for Governor in a\\ncontest with the strongest opponent in the State,\\nour distinguished townsman, the Honorable A. G.\\nThurman. Victory in such a combat was surely a\\nmark of distinction. In 1869 he was renominated,\\nagain by acclamation; and again was successful against\\nno less an antagonist than the Honorable George H.\\nPendleton. At the close of this period he returned\\nfor four years to private life; when he was again,\\nafter the most positive refusal (o permit the use of\\nhis name as a candidate, dragged from his retire-", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26\\nment in V roinoTil. ;inil elected for the fliird time\\nGovernor, this time over another very strong oppo-\\nnent, the Honorable William Allen. It was this\\nvictory that made him President. His reputation had\\nl)y this time liccome national; the people of the\\nnation iiad come to understand snmethinii- of his\\nstraight-forward honesty and devotion to ])rinciple\\nand although there were presented to the Conven-\\ntion of 1S7(), iiuitc a niiniher of names of gentlemen\\nwho had (daims upon the oflice. and who had com-\\npassed sea and land, to secure the nomination, the\\none man ^vho iiad not lifted his linger to gain it w^as\\nchosen in their stead.\\nOf the painful contest which linally put General\\nHayes in possession of the Presidency, it is not lilting\\nthat I should speak in this place, at any length. For\\nmany months the result of the election was left in\\ndoubt, and party passion w^as so intlamed tinit there\\nwas danger ot revolution. Opinions formed under such\\ncircumstances are not apt to be judicial; anil it is not\\neasy for men on one side to get the point of view of\\ntheir opponents. President Hayes has l)een bitterly\\ncensured, t)y a few persons, ever since that day. for\\naccepting an odice which was tainted with fraud. For\\nmy own part, with the most sincere desire to preserve", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "2 7\\nin the whole controversy a judicial frame of mind, and\\nwith grave doubts, all the while, as to whether his\\nelection was beyond question, I thought at the time,\\nand have always thought, that General Hayes did\\nexactly what he ought to have done; that his good\\nsense and his patriotism were never more manifest\\nthan when he accepted, without hesitation, the office\\nby law conferred upon him, and proceeded without\\nfaltering to discharge its duties.\\nIt must be remembered that tlie question of the real\\nrights in this case was a very diflicult one. On one\\nside the suflVage had been tainted by stupendous\\nfraud; on the other it had been perverted by shame-\\nful violence. AVhich was the greater wrong, I do not\\nbelieve that an archangel could have told. But, after\\nanxious days, the Congress had determined upon a\\nmethod by which the dispute should be settled. Tlie\\ntribunal thus created was certainly a legal tribunal,\\nthe highest in the land. By that tribunal the office\\nwas given to General Hayes. What could he do but\\ntake it? To refuse it would have been to invite revo-\\nlution and anarchy.\\n1 beg to quote, in this connection, what I wrote and\\npublished at the time respecting this unhappy busi-\\nness. To prove that one of these candidates is not", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28\\ncnlitled toMIie elecloral vote of either of these states\\nis iiol to prove thai the other candidate is entitled to\\nit. The election was vitiated in several states by fraud\\nand intimidation. And it would be diflieult tor a per-\\nfectly unprejudiced judge to (K teniiiiie which of the\\ntwo candidates had the better moral riirht to the otfice.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2When, therefore, it is demanded that .Afr. Hayes\\nshall resign because his title to the Presidency is\\ntainted with fraud, the question arises whether any-\\nbody has a belter title. Doubtless the irregularity of\\nthis process by which he was put in power has greatly\\ndistressed him, as it has distressed all patriotic citizens.\\nBut the last election was. in fact, no election. Who\\nwas rightfully the President it was impossible to\\ndetermine. Somebody must be invested with the otiice.\\nAnd the Congress at length agreed upon a plan by\\nwhirh the matter should be settled. By that plan Mr.\\nHayes was designated. His legal right to the olfice\\nis as good as the National Legislature and the Supreme\\nCourt can make it. His moral right is as good as that\\nof Mr. Tilden and belter than that of anybody else.\\nThis statement may not express the opinions of all\\nhonest men; but it expresses the opinon of one who\\ntried hard to see the rights of the case; and 1 have\\nno doubt that this was subslantiallv the view which", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "President Hayes took of the situation. That his accept-\\nance of the Presidency was regarded by him as a\\npatriotic duty, nobody who knew him could question.\\nThe only utterance of his during that exciting con-\\ntroversy was a private letter to Senator Sherman,\\nafterwards published\\nYou feel, I am sure, as I do about this whole busi-\\nness. A fair election would have given us about forty\\nelectoral votes at the South at least that many. But\\nwe are not to allow our friends to defeat one outrage\\nand fraud by another. There must be nothing crooked\\non our part. Let Mr. Tilden have the place by vio-\\nlence, intimidation, and fraud, rather than undertake\\nto prevent it by means that will not ])ear the strictest\\nscrutiny.\\nIt was not possible for Rutherford Hayes to say\\nanything else but that, or to do anything which was\\nessentially contrary to that.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2How manfully he took up the duties of his high\\noffice, and with what patience, firmness, and courage\\nhe discharged them, there is no time now to tell. That\\nthe administration of Mr. Hayes was in all respects\\nthe ablest, the purest, and the most successful adminis-\\ntration that this country has had since the death of\\nAbraiiam Lincoln is an opinion for which I am pre-", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30\\npared to give good reasons. The reins of government\\nwere placed in liis hands at a time of the greatest\\ndifficulty every influence was hostile his party was\\nin a minority in both houses of Congress his exasper-\\nated opponents were by no means loth to hamper and\\ncripple liim; and against all these discouragements he\\nsteadily carried forward his administration on firm\\nlines of well-chosen policy until he had won the con-\\nfidence of the whole American people. The Presi-\\ndent, says one biographer, found the country greatly\\nagitated by antagonisms and alarms its currency\\ndebased; its industry and trade depressed, and its\\ncredit unsettled, and subject to the issue of an exist-\\ning crisis unprecedented in its bearings. He left it at\\npeace in all sections, with a currency unequaled in\\nstability and abundance; with industries and trade in\\nall branches at the maximum of liealthl ul activity, and\\nwith the public credit higher tlian ever before, at liome\\nand abroad, and second to that of no other nation.\\nOne of the most distinguished supporters of Mr.\\nTilden was Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Alter the\\nclose of the Hayes administration, Mr. Adams, speak-\\ning at a meeting of the Kelbrm Club in New York,\\nvolunteered this testimony\\nPresident Hayes was no choice of mine. 1 did not", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "31\\nvote for him. I never considered him honestly elected,\\nthough he was legally inaugurated. Still, bygones are\\nbygones, and as a fair-minded man I gladly and pub-\\nlicly concede that President Hayes s administration,\\ntaken as a whole, has been no less honorable to him-\\nself than creditable to the country. It has been\\ncleanly and honest and of good repute. That, in some\\nrespects, it has fallen short of its own great promises,\\nis apparent to all the world. But that is of course. It\\ncould not have been otherwise, for it promised the\\nimpracticable. Taken as a whole, however, it has been\\nan administration which will bear comparison with the\\nbest and purest of those which have preceded it, and\\nit is an administration which the great mass of those\\nwho mind their own business would be glad to have\\ncontinued tor the next four years.\\nThe friends of President Hayes can aftbrd to let a\\nsober verdict like that stand as the sufficient answer to\\nthe vilification of those creatures who pursued him\\nwith their malice while he lived and now crawl forth\\nto spit their venom on his new-made grave. There is\\na class of miscreants in whom a character like that of\\nRutherford B. Hayes awakens an instinctive antago-\\nnism. Their abuse is the unfailing meed of every\\nhonorable character. They are as sure to lly into a", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32\\npassion at the sight of a good man as the devils were\\nto cry out when the Man of Nazareth appeared. One\\nof the highest credentials of Mr. Hayes to the posses-\\nsion of an unsullied character is the fiendish maliirnitv\\nwith which in certain quarters he has been pursued\\nand assailed.\\nLet me seek, now, in a few closing paragraphs, to\\nset forth what seem to me the elements of his great-\\nness.\\nAnd first, I would name the simple dignity and\\nmanliness of his habitual conduct. There was no sur-\\nplusage of manners; there was always just the simple,\\nsincere, unpretentious gentleman. Xor does he, said\\none who knew him well, wear a smirking face, as if\\nhe were a candidate for admiration but a fine sunny\\ncountenance, such as men and women respect and\\nchildren love. He doesn t run to meet you, and call\\nyou my very dear sir! He takes you by the hand,\\nwith a cordial kindness wliich recognizes the universal\\nbrotherhood of man, and impresses you that he is a\\nman who gets above nobody, and nobody gets above\\nhim. An old citizen of Columl)us. who has always\\nbeen radically opposed to President Hayes in politics,\\nsaid yesterday: I have always loved Hayes, ever\\nsince he was here in Ihe Governor s uliiee. 1 was a", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "33\\nclerk ill one of the departments in the State House\\nthen; and whenever he wanted any information in the\\noffice, instead of sending a messenger, and ordering\\nsomebody to hunt it up for him, he was apt to come\\nround himself, and sit down by the clerk, and look\\nmatters over with him, in a perfectly friendly, unpre-\\ntending way. He put on no airs because he was Gov-\\nernor; he was just a man like all the rest of us; and\\nI formed a very strong personal attachment for him.\\nHis sturdy independence is next to be noted. No\\nman ever stood more squarely on his own two feet.\\nHe would take no favors that cost him any sacrifice of\\nmanhood. He was ambitious; no doubt about that;\\nfrom his youth he cherished the hope of winning honor\\nfrom his fellow men, but he meant to win it by\\ndeserving it, not by scheming for it. He never asked\\nfor a nomination never winked an eyelid to secure\\none. When, after his third election to the governor-\\nship, the people of Ohio began to couple his name\\nwith the Presidency, he gave himself no concern about\\nit. No man, says Mr. Howells, could hear himself\\nmuch talked about for the chief place in a nation like\\nthis without feeling some share of the popular excite-\\nment, but no man w^as less capable of pushing himself\\nfor such a place than Hayes. We have seen many", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34\\nletters of his, written during the period when the\\nmovement in his favor was gathering strength and\\nIbrm and Uiev all ])oint to the fact that, while he\\nwas not indifferent to it. he was firmly resolved to\\nhave nothing to do with it. in one of these letters,\\nshown US hy his correspondent, he wrote: I am not\\npushing, directly or indirectly. It is not likely that I\\nshall. If the sky falls we shall all catch larks. On\\nthe. topics you name., a busy seeker after truth would\\nhnd my views, in speeches and messages, but 1 shall\\nnot help him to find them. I appreciate your motives\\nand your friendship. But it is not the thing for 3 ou\\nand me to enroll ourselves in the great army of office-\\nseekers. Let the currents alone. I can do noth-\\ning, he wrote to another intimate friend, to aid\\nmyself. And then, in allusion to reports that he had\\nentered into alliance with certain politicians, he saj s\\nThe truth is, I am in no way complicated, entangled\\nor committed with the parties you name or anybody\\nelse. I suppose that no President, for the last fifty\\nyears perhaps no President since Washington has\\ngone into office so absolutely free from obligations as\\nhe was. When his cabinet was announced, that fact\\nwas evident. Nothing was ever plainer than that that\\ncabinet was made by one hand, for one purpose not", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "35\\nto pay debts, not to ])leM8e (he i)oliticians, hut simply\\nto give the country a good administration.\\nClosely related to this trait of independence was his\\ncalm self-reliance. He knew himself; and he knew\\nthat there was one man in Ohio who could be\\ndepended on. He knew his powers, and was assured\\ntluit they would not fail him. He knew his purposes,\\nthat they were unselfish, honorable, worthy of realiza-\\ntion; and he expected to realize them. In his diary,\\nwhile the discussion was going on about his candidacy,\\nthese words were written With so general an\\nimpression in my favor in Ohio, and a fair degree of\\nassent elsewhere I have supposed that it\\nwas possible I might be nominated. But with no\\nopportunity and no desire to make combinations or to\\nlay wires, I have not thought my chances worth much\\nconsideration. I feel less diffidence in thinking of this\\nsubject than perhaps I ought. It seems to me that\\ngood purposes and the judgment, experience and firm-\\nness I possess, would enable me to execute the duties\\nof the office well. I do not feel the least fear that I\\nshould fail. There isn t a grain of conceit about\\nthat; but it is a man that you hear talking.\\nHis faith in principle was also perfect. The right\\nis for him the expedient the thing that ought to", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36\\nbe done can be done; it is, after all, the easiest and\\nsafest thing to do. It was this that made his choice\\nso clear and his counsels so unfaltering in the days\\nwhen financial follies had become epidemic.\\nAnd, finally, the one comprehensive word which\\nsums up his highest and strongest qualities as a\\npublic man is patriotism. This takes your thoughts,\\nperhaps, to the tented field to the bivouac and the\\nmarch and the battle; and it took him thither, beyond\\na doubt, and made of him a soldier of whom Grant\\nsaid: His conduct on the field was marked by\\nconspicuous gallantry, as well as the display of quali-\\nties of a higher order than mere personal daring.\\nBut the patriotism of General Hayes was not consum-\\nmated when he tore off his shoulder-straps and\\nunbuckled his sword. The best of it, the bravest of\\nit, was yet to come. The patriotism of General Hayes\\nwas love of country, of the whole country not of\\nany section though he was j)roud of his own com-\\nmonwealth; not of any jjarty though lie was a\\nloyal Republican but of the whole land, the whole\\npeople. There are plenty of men to whom patriotism\\nis a mere sentiment; the only motive that really\\nmoves them in i)ul)lic affairs is love of party. To\\nthat their real loyalty is given; their conduct abund-", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "3 7\\nantly shows that they would rather see their country\\nsutler loss at the hands of their own party than\\nprosper at the hands of their opponents. No matter\\nhow beneficent a measure may he, it shall not prevail\\nif they can help it, unless their party can hold the\\noffices. The other party they count as tlie enemy\\nit is the word by which they unilbrmly speak of it it\\nis the conception under which they always think of\\nit. Their political plans stop short, therefore, with the\\npromotion of the success of their own party the other\\nhalf of their fellow citizens are practically aliens. Now\\nthis is not the spirit of patriotism. No thorough-going\\npartizan can claim to be a patriot. He is a kind of\\nsemi-patriot, a lover of half his country and even as\\na half-truth is often the worst sort of a lie so this\\nintense partizanship which makes a man think of his\\npolitical opponents as enemies is the root of the most\\npestilent political immoralties. Now President Hayes\\nwas a man who, although a loyal supporter of his own\\nparty, never lost sight of the fact that his primary\\nobligation was to the country, and not to the party.\\nHe would not sacrifice the public interest to the inter-\\nest of his party. To him party was only an instrumen-\\ntality, not an end; he would use it just so far as he\\ncould make it serve justice and righteousness, no", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38\\nfurther. When lie saw that parties were cominjr to\\nexist mainly for the sake of hohliiig the offices, he\\nstruck at that vice with all his streni:;th. This sys-\\ntem, he said, destroys the independence of the\\nseparate departments of the government; it tends\\ndirectly to extravagance and official incapacity; it is a\\ntem])tation to dishonesty; it hinders and im])airs that\\ncareful supervision and strict accountability by which\\nalone faithful and efficient public service can be\\nsecured in every way it degrades the civil service and\\nthe character of the government. It ought to be\\nabolished. The reibrm should be thorough, radical and\\ncomplete. He did what he could to secure this end.\\nAnd he determined to take the stumbling blocks out of\\niiis own path. ndieving, he said in his letter\\nof acceptance, Mh:it the restoration of the civil service\\nto the system established by Washington, and followed\\nl)y the early Presidents, can be best accomplished by\\nan Executive who is under no tem[)tation to use the\\npatronage of his office to secure his own re-election, 1\\ndesire to perform what I regard as a duty, in stating\\nnow my inllexil)le pnri)ose, if elected, not to be a\\ncandidate lor election to a second term. He said it.\\nand he stood by it. Nobody who knew him had any\\ndoubt that he woidd do so. t ongress sneert d at his", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "39\\nproposition to reform the civil service, and refused to\\nmake any appropriation by which the work could be\\ncarried on; but in spite of Congress he introduced the\\nreformed methods into some of the most important\\noffices and when he believed that certain high officials\\nof his own party were using their patronage to reward\\npolitical workers, he incontinently turned them out,\\nand told their successors that the offices must be con-\\nducted on strictly business principles. He had done\\nwhat he could, in the same direction, when he was\\nGovernor of Ohio. In one of his inaugural addresses\\nhe strongly urged that our state institutions be put\\nupon this basis that officers and employes should be\\nappointed on business principles, and riot as a rewai d\\nfor political activity. When he was Governor, says\\nMr. Howells, he was importuned by old and dear\\nfriends to turn out the Democratic State Librarian, and\\ngive the office, one of the few in the Governor\\\\s gift,\\nto a most worthy and competent Republican. He\\nrefused. The iDresent incumbent, he wrote, of the\\nlibrarianship is a faithful, pains-taking old gentleman\\nwith a family of invalid girls dependent on him. His\\ncourtesy and evident anxiety to accommodate all wlio\\nvisit the library have secured him the endorsement of\\nalmost all who are in the liabit of using the book-s.", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40\\nand, under the circumstance?, I can not remove him.\\nOld associations, your titness and claims draw me the\\nother way, but you see, etc., etc. Very sincerely, R. B.\\nHayes.\\nIt is in this determination to keep the claims oT\\nparty subordinate to the interests of the whole public\\nthat 1 discern the keynote of President Hayes s patriot-\\nism. That famous phrase of his inaugural in 1S77,\\nHe serves his party best who serves his country\\nbest, illustrates his divergence from the common run\\nof politicians. How impossible it is to get that co)i-\\nception into the mind of the average political leader.\\nAnd yet how bright the maxim shines in the light of\\nPresident Hayes s example. No recent President was\\nless of a partizan none was so successful a political\\nleader. He found his party in the Slough of Desi)ond.\\nand he left it on the Heights of Victory. And this he\\ndid by simply ignoring all schemes of party aggrandize-\\nment, and giving himself, with a single eye and a\\nresolute purpose, to the service of the whole country.\\nWhat he did for tlie pacification of the South was\\ndone upon the same principle. He had helped to\\nconquer the South; but he was man enough to see\\nthat the era of subjugation must come to an end;\\nthat the South must be free to govern itself. There-", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "41\\nfore he pledged himself, in his letter of acceptance,\\nto put forth his best efforts in hchalf of a civil\\npolicy which will wipe out forever the distinction\\nbetween North and South in our common country.\\nThat promise, also, he kept. The South was pacified.\\nNo ideal condition of things was realized in that\\nquarter; but a great political improvement took place.\\nThe negroes certainly fared no worse than they had\\ndone under the policy of repression the temper of\\nthe Southern people was marvellously improved, and\\nthe new era was well begun. So perfect was this\\nwork of peace, that the Southern question, which\\nfor a quarter of a century had been the burning\\nquestion of our politics, was not mentioned in the\\nfirst message of President Hayes s successor. What\\na triumph of statesmanship that was, let the future v\\nhistorian tell.\\nWith the even mind of the man who has per-\\nformed great duties manfully, and borne great trials\\nuncomplainingly. President Hayes laid down the bur-\\ndens of office in March, 1881, and turned his face\\nhomeward. Malignants among his opponents followed\\nhim with their curses; the spoilsmen of both parties\\nbarked at his heels, of course the men whose interest\\nin politics was mainly selfish all hated him with a", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "4-2\\ncordial and ju^titiaMo luitred, and never lost a chance\\nto revile liini. The dispraise of such men is a\\ndecoration. V^ oe to you when they speak well of\\nyou I The President bore to his home the grate-\\nliil assurance that the men to whom ollice is simply\\n])lunder owed liim no uood will. But he carried with\\nhim, also, the respect, the honor, the atfection of\\nthe great body of honest people of both parties.\\nTo his old neighbors in Fremont, who greeted him\\non his return, he said\\nThe question is olten heard, MVhat is to become\\nof the man what is he to do who. having been\\nchief magistrate of the Republic returns at the end\\nof his olHciai term to private lifeT It seems to me\\nthat the answer is near at hand, and sulficient Let\\nhim. like every other good American citizen, be will-\\ning and prompt to bear his part in every useful\\nwork that will promote the happiness arid the pro-\\ngress of ins family, his town, his state, and his\\ncountry. With this disposition he will have work\\nenough to do, and that work of a sort which yields\\nmore individual contentment and gratification than\\nbelong to the more conspicuous employments of the\\nlife he has left behind. Maidy words are these; but\\nwhat lu.ster his life since that day has shed upon thi ml", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "43\\nHow modestly, how patiently, how industriously he\\nhas given himself, in the last dozen years, to all\\nkinds of good work. To the wise dispensation of\\ngreat charities, to the study of the conditions of the\\ndependent classes more especially to the great cause\\nof education in all its phases, he has consecrated\\nthe ripeness of his wisdom, the maturity of his man-\\nhood. Few men in this land have done so large an\\namount of unremunerated service. I thought, he\\nsaid to me a year ago, as he paused on the thi-esh-\\nold of ray study, that when I laid down my\\nofficial cares I should have a tolerably eas^ life\\nbut I have been kept about as busy for the last ten\\nyears working for other people, as I ever was in my\\nlife. And I don t deny that I enjoy it. To our\\nown university the service that he has rendered has\\nbeen invaluable; the loss that it has suffered in his\\ndeath it is not easy to compute.\\nPresident Hayes was reticent, I judge, about his\\nreligious experience. He was brought up in the Pres-\\nbyterian Church; with his wife, while she lived, he\\nwas a constant attendant upon the Methodist Church;\\nI do not know that he formulated lor himself any\\ncreed he was content, probably, with a very short\\nstatement of some Of th fundamontal truths of", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44\\nivliiiioii. He was proiVjiiiidly interested in the truth\\nwhich constitutes ihc hoart ot all faiths; and he was a\\nsympathetic and appreciative listener in the house of\\nGod. lie asked me, not long ago. if I knew a certain\\nminister of our own communion. I replied that I had\\nknown him from his Seminary days. AVell, he said,\\nI heard him preach last Sunday at Brattleboro, Ver-\\nmont. And il was a very line sermon. You know,\\nhe adiled, willi a humorous twinkle we always think\\nthat a man who agrees wilh us is an able man. But\\nthe text of this sermon was a striking one: The\\nsecond is like unto it. That was all there was of the\\ntext Itut it was enough, 1 assure you, to furnish the\\nfoundation of a very strong discourse.\\nI c(.uld easily l)elieve it. The second is like unto\\nit, equal to it. It is what our Master says about\\nthe second great commandment of the law. The tirst\\ngreat commandnient is Thou shalt love the Lord thy\\nGod with all thy heart, the second is like unto it\\nequally binding, equally fundamental, equally religious,\\nThou shall love thy m-ighbor as thyself. The fact\\nthat had made its impression uj)on the President s mind\\nwas the equivalence of these commandments. That\\nindicated his hearty recognition of both of them. But\\n1 sup])osf that il he had been challenged to confess his\\nLire.", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "46\\nfaith, it would have been uttered in the words of the\\nbeloved apostle: He that loveth not his brother,\\nwhom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he\\nhath not seen? And if the word of that apostle is\\ntrue that every one who loveth is begotten of God\\nand knoweth God, then the unselfish ministry of the\\nlast ten years would prove that the first great com-\\nmandment was also the law of his life.\\nIt is not easy to convince our hearts that this good\\nfriend of ours is not to be seen among us again. He\\nwas wont to come frequently; it was good to hear of\\nhis arrival; it was pleasant to meet him in the street;\\nthere was always a little more courage for work after\\nwe had looked for a moment into his face. Here was\\na man, we said to ourselves, who has lived. What an\\nanswer is his life to the plea of the mercenary poli-\\ntician that success is impossible to the unselfish\\npatriot! Who, among all these schemers and tricksters\\nwill ever reach the height on which this man stood\\nWho never sold the truth to serve the hour\\nNor paltered with the Eternal God for power!\\nBut he has passed. And what remains to us is the\\nmemory of a clean-handed, clear-minded, simple-man-\\nnered, great-hearted man, and the faith which his life\\nhas quickened in our hearts, that", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46\\nAll good things await\\nHim who cares not to be great,\\nBut as he saves or serves the State.\\nHe has gone. The good gray head that all men\\nknew, will not again be seen in our assemblies:\\nNo more in soldier fashion will he greet\\nWith lifted hand the gazer in the street.\\nO friends, our chief state-oracle is dead:\\nMourn for the man of long-enduring blood.\\nThe statesman-warrior, moderate, resolute.\\nWhole in himself, a common good.\\nMourn for the man of amplest influence,\\nYet clearest of ambitious crime.\\nOur greatest, and with least pretense\\nGreat in council, and great in war\\nRich in saving common-sense.\\nAnd as the greatest only are\\nIn his simplicity sublime.", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "PRESS OF MITSCHKE BROTHERS, COLUMBUS, O.", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2813", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3224", "width": "2490", "jp2-path": "greatcommonerofo00glad_0060.jp2"}}