Quotation by Rutherford Birchard Hayes

I incline to think that the people will not now sustain the policy of upholding a State Government against a rival government, by the use of the forces of the United States. If this leads to the overthrow of the de jure government in a State, the de facto government must be recognized.
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893), U.S. president. Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States, vol. III, p. 428, ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Diary (20 March 1877).

With a shaky mandate and a hostile House of Representatives refusing to appropriate money for the army, Hayes had no choice but to remove the troops upholding Republican governments in South Carolina and Louisiana.
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