“It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution.”

—  Rutherford B. Hayes

Fourth State of the Union Address (6 December 1880)

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