Quote#Freedom
These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery]…
Quote byRutherford B. Hayes · 1822–1893
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926), Diary (5 June 1862).
English (original)
These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. — Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slavery — in fact, its only enemy.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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