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By Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education.
- Source
- Inaugural Address, March 5, 1877
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- The American Presidency Project (text follows the Public Papers of the Presidents)
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From Rutherford B. Hayes's Inaugural Address, March 5, 1877. He is writing about the South and the need for free schools. The next sentence is: "To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority."