Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. 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.

Tilden the Governor of New York. His temperance policy also paid political dividends strengthening his support among Protestant ministers. In October after a decisive battle at Bear Paw Montana Chief Joseph surrendered and General William T.

Hayes kept his pledge not to run for re-election. After his second term had ended he resumed the practice of law for a time but returned to politics in 1876 to serve a third term as governor. Congress from 1865 to 1867 as a Republican.