"I congratulate Congress on the successful execution of the resumption act."
"It is my firm conviction that the issue of legal-tender paper money based wholly upon the authority and credit of the Government, except in extreme emergency, is without warrant in the Constitution an..."
"United States notes began to be redeemed in coin."
"At no recurrence of the season which the devout habit of a religious people has made the occasion for giving thanks to Almighty God and humbly invoking His continued favor has the material prosperity ..."
"Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, do appoint Thursday, the 27th day of November instant, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer;"
"It is hereby ordered that all that portion of the Sioux Indian Reservation in Dakota Territory created by Executive orders dated January 11, March 16, and May 20, 1875, and November 28, 1876, be, and ..."
"In answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 28th June, 1879, requesting a copy of any correspondence which may have passed between the Department of State and the Republic of Mexico in regard to th..."
"Either to allow necessary functions of the public service to be crippled or suspended for want of the appropriations required to keep them in operation, or to approve legislation which in official com..."
"The offices thus provided for are essential to the faithful execution of the laws."
"Officers with corresponding powers and duties are found in every State of the Union and in every country which has a jurisprudence which is worthy of the name."
"To deprive the National Government of these officers would be as disastrous to society as to abolish the sheriffs, constables, and police officers in the several States."