Diary of Governor Rutherford B. Hayes, January 2, 1870

We have enjoyed the holidays better than ever before. All the boys at home, happy, well-behaved, and promising; little Fan a sunbeam; Lucy improved and appreciated. Our large, fine house, belonging to Judge Swayne, our re-election, and many circumstances combine to make this a time of great satisfaction and enjoyment. My inaugural, I thought of at church. To be very short; a sentence or two of acknowledgment and then, as the Constitution is to [be] amendable in my time—in my new term suggest for consideration changes as to subscription to railroads, as to temperance, as to courts, as to suffrage, as to minority representation, as to local debts—all debts.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, pp. 80-1