Opequan-Morass-First Over-Intrepidity-Official Reports-As- sault on Fisher's Hill-Battle of Cedar Creek-Commands a Nomination-Refuses to Leave Army-Election Incident-Election- Course in Congress-Services on Library Committee-Votes on Various Questions-Submits Plan of Constitutional Amend- Party of States Rights-Their Convention-Platform-Nomination of Thurman-Republican Convention and Platform-Nomina- tion of General Hayes-Opening Speech at Lebanon-Thur- man at Waverly-National Interest Aroused-Hayes Victori- The Senatorship Declined-Army Banquet Speech-Third Time Nominated for Congress-Glendale Speech-Declines a Federal Office-Making a Home-Nomination for Governor-Platform- Serenade Speech-Democratic Convention and Platform-Marion Speech of Hayes-Woodford-Grosvenor-Schurz Inflation Early Suggestions-Letters on Subject-Garfield Letter-Action of State Convention-Cincinnati Convention-Course of his Friends -First and Second Day's Events-Speech of Noyes-Balloting- Nominated on Seventh Ballot-Officially Notified-Habits-Per- sonal Appearance-Family-Letter of Acceptance--Character as a Soldier, Magistrate, and Man-Domestic Surroundings.. 143 I. Speech at Lebanon, Ohio, August 5, 1867.............. II. Speech at Sidney, Ohio, September 4, 1867........................................ III. Speech on his Re-nomination, June 23, 1869................. IV. Speech at Zanesville, Ohio, August 24, 1871....................... V. Speech at Marion, Ohio, July 31, 1875......... VI. Speech at Fremont, June 25, 1876. LIFE OF RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. CHAPTER I. ANCESTRY. Line of Descent-Family Tradition-Indian FightersGrandfather Rutherford-Chloe Smith Hayes-Father and Mother-Characteristics-Tributes to a SisterGeneral 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: Rutherford Hayes, Sophia Birchard. The earlier family traditions connect the name and descent of George Hayes with the fighting plowman (9) 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 valor ous 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. An account of the captivity of this early defender of New England homes is found in Phelps' "History of Simsbury, Granby, and Canton." The wife of Daniel Hayes was the daughter of John Lee, who was noted for his bravery in fighting Indians. Captain Ezekiel Hayes, who gained his title in the military service of the Colonies, married the great |