Rutherford Hayes actually said...

"It gives me great pleasure to commend to your attention and that of the people of the whole country the laborious, faithful, and prosperous performances of their duties which have marked the administr..."

"There shall be, as there have always been, peace and friendship between the United States of America and the Ta Tsing Empire, and between their people respectively."

"I have no occasion to insist upon the more general considerations of interest and duty which sacredly guard the faith of the nation, in whatever form of obligation it may have been given."

"I regard the very grave discontents of the people of the Pacific States with the present working of the Chinese immigration, and their still graver apprehensions therefrom in the future, as deserving ..."