Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to William Henry Smith, June 27, 1868

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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