Rutherford Hayes actually said...

The honored dead who fought and perished will, therefore, be held in special and grateful remembrance.

They believed that our institutions were equal to any emergency, and that they ought to be maintained at the cost of property or of life.

Let us here give heed to the words of Abraham Lincoln.

I am directed by the President to say that the several Departments of the Government will be closed on Thursday, the 30th instant, in respec...