12pp. Caption title [as issued], disbound. 'No. 26' printed at head of title. Very Good. Hancock, a hero at Gettysburg, was the Democrats' 1880 presidential candidate. He supported a mild Reconstruction policy, which meant, in practical terms, indifference to the fate of freedmen and Unionists residing in the South. "His proclamation giving to civil tribunals jurisdiction over all crimes and offenses not involving forcible resistance to Federal authority failed to meet with the approval of Congress and led to his being relieved." DAB. Hancock's unenviable record is set forth. The pamphlet says that the much-loathed President Andrew Johnson relied on Hancock as "a facile instrument with which more effectually to obstruct the work of reconstruction." This sad state of affairs "is all the more painful, because an otherwise meritorious officer has been made a party to the political madness which has so long marked the conduct of the President.". Seller Inventory # 28987

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Title: WINFIELD S. HANCOCK'S DEFIANCE OF THE ...

Publisher: np

Publication Date: 1880

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