I walked round the town this morning, — met several of the
citizens who said they were pure and disinterested, and other people were
unscrupulous scamps; — seems the usual topic of conversation here with
strangers within their gates
SOURCES: Clara B. Hay, Letters of John Hay and
Extracts from Diary, Volume 1, p. 177. See Michael Burlingame & John R.
Turner Ettlinger, Editors, Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete
Civil War Diary of John Hay, p. 177 for the full diary entry.
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