Rutherford Hayes actually said...

if necessary the aid and assistance of the military forces of the United States will be invoked to carry into proper execution the laws of the United States herein referred to.

Context

Proclamation 243—Warning Against Unauthorized Settlement in the Indian Territory

04/25/1879

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