Rutherford Hayes actually said...

The very ample and generous contributions which the foreign nations made to the splendor and usefulness of the exhibition and the cordiality...

I express, I believe, the general judgment of the Country, as well as my own, in assigning to this exhibition a measure of success gratifyin...

It gives me great pleasure to commend to your attention and that of the people of the whole country the laborious, faithful, and prosperous ...

I have no occasion to insist upon the more general considerations of interest and duty which sacredly guard the faith of the nation, in what...