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Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Hayes to ? (November 10, 1890)Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Diary (April 24, 1853)Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Hayes to William Henry Smith (October 26, 1881)Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes (June 17, 1866)Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Hayes to Lucy Webb (June 22, 1851)

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Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by between seven and eight thousand majority! How people do hate Catholics, and what a happiness it was to show it in what seemed a lawful and patriotic manner.

Rutherford Birchard Hayes

Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893), U.S. president. Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States, vol. I, p. 470, ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Hayes to Sardis Birchard (October 13, 1854).

Written to his uncle from Cincinnati.

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