A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . nd eighty-four for Tilden,.Hayes was therefore declared elected on the morning ofMarch 3. 3. Mayess BDmtnistration, A New Policy.—Though the Democratic party had vig-orously opposed the election of Rutherford B. Hayes/ his policy proved in several respects to ~^ YfQ []^r^[ which they advocated. He / ^ believed that the troubles in the / Southern States would never cease while the national government inter-fered in their internal affairs. Hetherefore withdrew the United Statestroops from that section of the coun-try, t
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . nd eighty-four for Tilden,.Hayes was therefore declared elected on the morning ofMarch 3. 3. Mayess BDmtnistration, A New Policy.—Though the Democratic party had vig-orously opposed the election of Rutherford B. Hayes/ his policy proved in several respects to ~^ YfQ []^r^[ which they advocated. He / ^ believed that the troubles in the / Southern States would never cease while the national government inter-fered in their internal affairs. Hetherefore withdrew the United Statestroops from that section of the coun-try, trusting that the whites and blackswould come to some amicable settle-ment of their difficulties. As a resultthe negro rule in the legislatures ofthe South came to an end. The Presidents action wasseverely condemned by many Republicans, yet it was ap-proved by the great mass of the people, and put an end tothe political strife which had continued since the war. Resumption of Specie Payments.—President Hayes wasalso an advocate of civil service reform, or the removal of. KUTHEKFORD B. HaYES. Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Ohio in 1822. He graduated atKenyon College, studied at the Harvard Law School, and was admittedto the bar in 1845. Like all the Presidents after the Civil War exceptCleveland, he had served as a soldier, becoming major of the Twenty-third Ohio, and rising to the grade of brigadier-general. He waselected to Congress in 1865, and was governor of Ohio for three lived in retirement after his Presidential term, and died in 1893. HAYESS ADMINISTRATION. 429 office-holding from political control, and of the early resump-tion of specie payments. Since the war the paper moneyof the country had been depreciated in value, and gold hadpassed out of circulation. At one time it took nearly threedollars in paper to equal a dollar in gold. But as the yearswent on the premium demanded for gold grew less, and in1875 Congress passed a bill providing that on and after
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