ALS, 1866 April 8 : Washington, D.C., to Fred Hassaurek.

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ALS, 1866 April 8 : Washington, D.C., to Fred Hassaurek.

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Writing a newspaper editor about serious problems in the South after the Civil War, Hayes says, "The great danger there is local oppression--local ruffianism--depriving the individual citizen on account of color or loyalty or both, of the Commonest rights. The Civil Rights Bill was intended to do something on this subject in the right direction."

3 p. ; 25 x 20 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Hassaurek, F. (Friedrich), 1831-1885

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Austro-American journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cincinnati, to Charles Nordhoff, 1868 May 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270466751 ...

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893

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Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822 and earned degrees from Kenyon College and Harvard Law School before starting a career as a lawyer in Cincinnati. Hayes served as a major general in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1864. Hayes then was elected Governor of Ohio and later served one term as President of the United States (1877-1881) before retiring to his home in Fremont, Ohio, where he died in 1893.President of the Uni...