Major Rutherford.B. Hayes
Grand Old Partisan salutes Civil War hero Rutherford Hayes. June 27th 1861, this future president enlisted in the Union Army. William Dennison, the Republican Governor, commissioned him Major with the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Leaving behind a pregnant wife and three children, Hayes wrote:
"I would prefer to go into it if I knew that I was to be killed in the course of it than to live through and after it without taking any part in it."
Years later, he expressed the Republican Party creed:
"The Union of our fathers was imperiled by secession. Our faith is that the American Republic, in the language of the Supreme Court, is 'an indestructible Union of indestructible States.' The general Government was threatened by the doctrine that the allegiance of the citizen was due only to his State. Our faith is, that the citizen's allegiance is to the United States, and that the United States in authority and duty, is in the fullest possible sense, a nation."
"The contention of our adversaries was that slavery was national, perpetual, and of divine origin. Our faith is, that no statute and no constitution can make valid the false and fatal fantasy that man can hold property in man.
"We believe that the whole of the American Republic — every State and every acre in every State belongs to one flag — 'the old flag,' the stars and stripes, the flag of Washington and of Lincoln, the flag of the United States."
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