September 4, 1867 202

III. Speech on his Re-nomination, June 23, 1869 222

IV. Speech at Zanesville, Ohio, August 24, 1871 231

V. Speech at Marion, Ohio, July 31, 1875 241

VI. Speech at Fremont, June 25, 1876. 256

LIFE

OF

RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.

CHAPTER I.

ANCESTRY.

_Line of Descent--Family Tradition--Indian Fighters--Grandfather
Rutherford--Chloe Smith Hayes--Father and Mother--Characteristics--
Tributes to a Sister--General Character of Ancestors._

George Hayes, of Scotland, came to America by the way of England, and
settled at Windsor, in the Colony of Connecticut, in 1682. He married,
in 1683, Abigail Dibble, who was born on Long Island in 1666. From these
ancestors the direct line of descent to the Republican candidate for
President of the United States is the following:

George Hayes, Abigail Dibble.
Daniel Hayes, Sarah Lee.
Ezekiel Hayes, Rebecca Russell.
Rutherford Hayes, Chloe Smith.
Rutherford Hayes, Sophia Birchard.

The earlier family traditions connect the name and descent of George
Hayes with the fighting plowman mentioned in Scottish history, who at
Loncarty, in Perthshire, turned back the invaders of his country, in a
narrow pass, with the sole aid of his own valorous sons.

"Pull your plow and harrow to pieces, and fight," said the sturdy
Scotchman to his sons. They fought, father and sons together, and won. A
like command seems to have come down the centuries to an American-born
son--"Tear your briefs and petitions to pieces, and fight." He also
fought, and, though sorely wounded, won. Shall the crown of valor be
withheld by a free people that was once bestowed by a Scottish king?

Daniel Hayes, the third of the ten children of George Hayes, was born at
Windsor, in 1686. At the age of twenty-three, while fighting in defense
of Simsbury--now Granby--to which town his father's family had removed,
he was captured and carried off by the French and Indians. He was held
as a prisoner in Canada for five years, and being a young man of great
physical strength and vigor, the Indians adopted him as one of their
race. His freedom was finally purchased through the intervention of a
Frenchman, the colonial assembly of Connecticut, sitting at New Haven,
having made an appropriation of public funds in aid of that specific
purpose