We went out to the bar and passed it. I heard the sea
hammering on the guards, and turned over for another nap. Came back to Fernandina.
The sea was very heavy; a steady line of breakers rolling in over the bar
without a break in three fathoms water. . . .
I spent part of evening on board the Peconic. Trash for a
little while till I got opportunity to talk to Judge Fraser who seems a sincere
and candid man with clear views. He thinks the time is not yet come for
Florida.
I am very sure that we cannot now get the President's 10th,
and that to alter the suffrage law for a bare tithe would not give us the moral
force we want. The people of the interior would be indignant against such a
snap-judgment taken by incomers and would be jealous and sallow.
SOURCES: Clara B. Hay, Letters of John Hay and
Extracts from Diary, Volume 1, p. 170-1; The entire entery may be found in Michael
Burlingame’s Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete Civil War Diary
of John Hay, p. 173.
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