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Excerpt from Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Vol. 2: Nineteenth President of the United States; 1861-1865 In the next few weeks of tense political excitement, with South Carolina openly moving toward secession and President Buchanan supinely looking on in a paralysis Of inaction, the Diary is silent, as are also the extant letters, on the absorbing topic Of the day. That he was not an indifferent Observer Of passing events, however, and that for the moment with large numbers of people Of the North he contemplated calmly the possibility of the permanent disruption of the Union, the pages that follow clearly demonstrate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Vol. 1: Nineteenth President of the United States; 1834-1860 The only liberties I have taken with the text are, (i) to write out most abbreviations and to give full names where initials only were used; (2) to make the punctuation more careful and regu lar, so as to render the meaning clear; (3) to correct the very few misspellings - most of them obvious slips of the pen. Wherever it seemed necessary to add a word, a sentence, or a paragraph to clarify the text, this has been enclosed in brackets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.