Partly-printed DS as president, signed “R. B. Hayes,” one page, 7.75 x 10, July 23, 1877. President Hayes directs the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to “my proclamation dated today, relative to the insurrection in Pennsylvania.” Signed at the conclusion by Rutherford B. Hayes. In fine condition.
Four months after his inauguration, Hayes faced America's first national labor strike in the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, which quickly spread from West Virginia to Maryland, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Missouri, and sparked countless related protests from coast to coast. As violence increased, especially in Pennsylvania, Hayes sent federal troops from one city to the next, suppressing each strike quickly and effectively, bringing the entire affair to a close on September 4, 1877, just 45 days after it began.
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