CINCINNATI, March 29,
1861.
DEAR UNCLE: — I have received your favor, and suspect you
are more anxious that I should be re-elected than the occasion calls for. I
philosophize in this way: I have got out of the office pretty much all the good
there is in it — reputation and experience. If I quit it now, I shall be
referred to as the best, or one of the best solicitors, the city has had. If I
serve two years more, I can add nothing to this. I may possibly lose. I shall
be out of clients and business a little while, but this difficulty will perhaps
be greater two years hence. So you see it is no great matter. Still, I should
prefer to beat, and with half a chance, I should do it. . . .
I am not wasting much time looking after the election — none
in mere personal electioneering. I am trying to so behave as to go out
respectably.
Sincerely,
R. B. HAYES.
S. BIRCHARD.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 7
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