COLUMBUS, June 27, 1868.
DEAR SMITH:— In reply to
yours of yesterday: The Youngstown address is now half written a dull affair,
nothing fresh, original, or even passably good in it. I rely upon a rapid,
spirited delivery to get it off on the audience and prefer not to let it get
into any daily. But if it must be, your wishes will be complied with, but with
the distinctly expressed wish that you don't call attention to it by praise or
otherwise. It will be platitudinarily-tion stupid.
Sincerely,
R. B. HAYES.
WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, Chronicle Office, Cincinnati.
SOURCE: Charles Richard
Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume
3, p. 53
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