Eric Eggen

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Hayes accepted the mere possibility, and not the actuality, of violence as sufficient, proclaimed the strike “unlawful and insurrectionary proceedings,” and dispatched troops, despite the lack of violence or property destruction since the initial shooting.
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)
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