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Document 5459

DAVID M. KEY. ALS: "D.M. Key" as Postmaster General, 1¼p, 6x9½. Post Office Department, Washington, 1877 August 1. To Frank S. Wood, Esq., Batavia, N.Y. In part: "The respect shown to the authority of the United States by the mobs and rioters during our late troubles is cause for sincere congratulation. Whilst state and municipal laws have been defied and their officers and forces resisted, the officers, soldiers and property of the general government have, on all occasions and everywhere been respected...." In July, state and federal troops violently suppressed a nationwide railroad strike over wage cuts. Key was Hayes' Postmaster General from 1877-1880. Lightly creased. Tape remnant on verso of signature page shows through to blank area.

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