Item No: #362628 General Howard and the Freedmen's Bureau.: Remarks of Hon. George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, Hon. W. Townsend, of Pennsylvania, Hon. John A. Peters, of Maine, Hon. J.P.C. Shanks, of Indiana, in the House of Representatives, February 23, 1871. George Frisbie Hoar, Washington Townsend, John Andrew Peters, John P. C. Shanks.

General Howard and the Freedmen's Bureau.: Remarks of Hon. George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, Hon. W. Townsend, of Pennsylvania, Hon. John A. Peters, of Maine, Hon. J.P.C. Shanks, of Indiana, in the House of Representatives, February 23, 1871.

Hoar, George Frisbie; Washington Townsend; John Andrew Peters, and John P. C. Shanks

Notes: A four-part defense of the Freedmen's Bureau and its head, Major General Oliver O. Howard, spurred by a proposed amendment to cut the $5,000 budget for the hospital in Washington, D.C. and a speech accusing the agency of "plundering the public treasuring."

The Freedmen's Bureau was a Reconstruction-era agency set up to assist the formerly enslaved citizens of the country following the Civil War.

8 pages.

Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing). A very good copy; a single sheet, folded to make eight pages, as issued.

Publication: [Washington, D.C.?]: (n.p.), 1871.

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General Howard and the Freedmen's Bureau.: Remarks of Hon. George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, Hon. W. Townsend, of Pennsylvania, Hon. John A. Peters, of Maine, Hon. J.P.C. Shanks, of Indiana, in the House of Representatives, February 23, 1871.