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- GLC#
- GLC05677.03-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- April 26, 1868
- Author/Creator
- Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873
- Title
- to Jehu Glancy Jones
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : envelope Height: 14.1 cm, Width: 11.1 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Chase, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, responds to a letter from Jones, a judge and former United States Representative from Pennsylvania. Discussing the civic role of politicians, states "In my public life hitherto I have never had but one controlling rule of action; ascertain as truly as possible the duty of the present hour & then do it fearlessly ... "
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