Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to Count Otto von Bismark, April 15, 1868

STATE OF OHIO, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.        

COLUMBUS, April 15, 1868.

SIR: I am requested to write you in relation to the vacancy in the consular office at Cincinnati, Ohio, occasioned by the death of Mr. C. F. Adae.

Honorable John B. Stallo has been named as a suitable person to fill the vacancy. I am personally well acquainted with Judge Stallo. He is an able lawyer and an influential and upright citizen whose reputation, experience, and capacity fit him in an eminent degree for the position of consular representative for any European Power desiring such representative in one of the important cities of the United States.

I have the honor to be,
                                     Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

R. B. HAYES,        

GOVERNOR OF OHIO.

COUNT BISMARK,
        CHANCELLOR NORTH GERMAN CONFEDERATION,
                Berlin.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 51-2