Four Years Among Spanish-Americans 1868
(About the author:
Friedrich Hassaurek (1831 - 1885) was a...)
About the author:
Friedrich Hassaurek (1831 - 1885) was a United States journalist and ambassador.
Hassaurek was prominent among campaigners for Abraham Lincoln during the 1860 Presidential election. In Kentucky, to gain a hearing, he appealed to the hospitality of the people. In Dayton, Ohio, he threatened to stay a month and try night after night until given a chance to speak. At another time, being abused and pelted with stones and missiles of all kinds, he laid down a revolver, and threatened to shoot any one that advanced upon him. Having thus intimidated the rough element, he was permitted to speak.
On his appointment by Lincoln as U. S. minister to Ecuador, Hassaurek went to thank the President “for appointing him to the highest position the administration had the power to give.” (The capital city of Ecuador, Quito, is over 9,000 feet (2,700 m) above sea level.) He served as minister from 1861 to 1865.
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