Private and Confidential.
COLUMBUS, October 27, 1868.
MY DEAR S——: —The Chronicle contains an unlucky little
sentence. Of course it is not to be corrected or alluded to, but the governor
neither can nor ought "to prevent
breaches of the peace." Yet there are people who expect it, and that
makes the sentence unlucky. If there was an insurrection or mob which the civil
authorities could not control, I could call out the military (if there was
any?) but it is the business of the civil authorities to take care of
"breaches of the peace." The governor has no civil authority. I write
merely out of abundant caution.
Sincerely,
R. B. HAYES.
WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, Cincinnati.
SOURCE: Charles Richard
Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume
3, p. 55
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