Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to William M. Dickson, January 19 , 1867

WASHINGTON, January 19, 1867.

DEAR JUDGE:—I will hand your letter about Shields' confirmation to our Senators with favorable talk. As to the other, I get more letters on the other side, but have done nothing more than to refer them to our Senators. Do you watch the movements here? What do you think of them? Being myself on the radical side of all of them, I may have lost my sense and would like to hear a cool outsider talk.

Yours,

R. B. HAYES.

HON. W. M. DICKSON,
        Cincinnati.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 38