Private and Confidential.
MY DEAR SIR:—Since
writing you early last week I have received a good many letters from Cincinnati
and the drift of them all is to confirm me in the correctness of my offhand
impressions. I wish, therefore, to have it known that I decline to allow my
name to go before the Union State Convention. Of course I feel flattered by the
favorable way in which I have been named, and greatly obliged to my friends for
their partiality. I would very much enjoy, I am sure, to make the canvass, and
I do not pretend to be indifferent to the honor. If I had no place such as the
one I now occupy I should quite willingly take the chances of getting a
nomination. But under the circumstances, as I said in my former letter, I ought
not to resign without the approval of the people who sent me here; and there
is, judging by my correspondence, no general desire that I should do so. I
shall write no letter for publication and of course want my decision made known
without any "flourish of trumpets" or the assignment of reasons.
This letter is marked "private" merely to indicate that I don't want it to be published.
Columbus.
SOURCE: Charles
Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard
Hayes, Volume 3, p. 40
No comments:
Post a Comment