Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes
General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results.
Hayes, Rutherford B. Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, edited by Charles Richard Williams, vol. 2, Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1922, p. 326.
Monroe was then Secretary of State and Jefferson an ex-President.
These failure of these secession opponents to influence most Southerners was one of the great tragedies of the war. William Tecumseh Sherman also counseled against the rebellion {627900}. Identity of many Americans at the time was defined by their State with less identification with the nation than today. Eggleston was an accomplished writer who had served in the Confederate army of the Civil War. 20 year after the war he wrote a series of articles for the prestigious Northern Atlantic Monthly trying to convey the war from the Southerner’s point of view.
The General refused. He had already achieved a strategic victory and it was only a matter of time when the Dutch would withdraw on their own as their supply lines were cut off and the populations wanted them out.
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was an American politician and attorney who served as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881, after serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and as governor of Ohio. A lawyer and staunch abolitionist, he had defended refugee slaves in court proceedings during the antebellum years. He negotiated the political agreement to end federal support of Reconstruction.
