"Continued opposition to the full and free enjoyment of the rights of citizenship conferred upon the colored people by the recent amendments to the Constitution still prevails in several of the late slaveholding States." It was given on December 6, 1880, to both houses of the 46th United States Congress.[1]
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1880 State of the Union Address
^"Rutherford B. Hayes - 92nd State of the Union Address". infoplease.com. December 6, 1880. Retrieved July 17, 2014.