Cincinnati, May 23, 1861.
Dear Uncle: —
I received yours of the 17th this morning, and am glad to know that your views
as to finishing and furnishing the house correspond with our own. If I should
not go away during the summer, I will, of course, visit you several times, and
we can arrange all these matters. . . .
I suspect you do not like to commit yourself on my warlike
designs. We have often observed, that on some questions, advice is never asked
until one's own purpose is fixed; so that the adviser is throwing away breath.
Perhaps you think this is such a case, and perhaps you are right; but if the
dispatches of this morning are correct, that the Government already has two
hundred and twenty thousand men, and will accept no more, the question is
settled.
It is raining again — disagreeable times for people in camp.
I have not seen any Fremonters, but have written to Haynes* to come and see me,
with any of the men.
Sincerely,
R. B. Hayes.
S. BlRCHARD.
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* W. E. Haynes. Later a colonel. Long a prominent citizen of
Fremont. Member of Congress, etc.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 18-9
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