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Hayes was right and wise in securing this stipulation if he could, by freeing these communities from military grasp a few weeks before he would have been compelled to do it at any rate.
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George F. Hoar
Massachusetts

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Hoar defends President Hayes's decision to remove troops from Southern states as a wise action.

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