he people and the providence of God, this
worthy pair, honored graduates of Ohio's higher schools of
learning, shall be lifted to the highest position and power and
influence in the Nation, we have reason to believe that they will
illustrate the salutary influence of that cultured goodness of
which we have spoken, and that the National capital and the entire
National domain will enjoy a purer atmosphere."

APPENDIX.

_Speech of_ GENERAL R. B. HAYES, _delivered at Lebanon, Ohio, August 5,
1867._

_Fellow-Citizens:_

President Lincoln began his memorable address at the dedication of
the Gettysburg National Cemetery with these words:

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent a new Nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal."

This was Abraham Lincoln's opinion of what was accomplished and
what was meant by the Declaration of Independence. His idea was
that it gave birth to a Nation, and that it dedicated that Nation
to equal rights.

Now, so far as the performance of duty in the present condition of
our country is concerned, "this is the whole law and the prophets."
The United States are not a confederacy of independent and
sovereign States, bound together by a mere treaty or a compact, but
the people of the United States constitute a Nation, having one
flag, one history, "one country, one constitution, one destiny."
Whoever seeks to divide this Nation into two sections--into a North
and a South, or into four sections, according to the cardinal
points of the compass, or into thirty or forty independent
sovereignties--is opposed to the Nation, and the Nation's friends
should be opposed to him.

Washington, in his Farewell Address, says:

"The unity of government, which constitutes you one people, is also
now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the
edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity
at home, your peace abroad; of your safety, of your prosperity, of
that very liberty which you so highly prize.... The name of
American, which belongs to you in your National capacity, must
always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation
derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of