COLUMBUS, December 19, 1869.
DEAR SIR:—I am exceedingly obliged by your prompt reply to my letter as to prison reform and for the volumes of valuable documents on the subject which you forwarded. No sudden or sweeping reform will be attempted here. But we desire to encourage the formation of correct opinions and hope that a gradual but steady advance may be made towards a reformatory system. The principles of the Irish system can I believe be introduced in practice without undertaking to copy in detail a scheme which may in some of its features be unsuited to our conditions.
Sincerely,
R. B. HAYES.
E. C. WINES.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, pp. 77-8
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