COLUMBUS, February 15, 1869.
MY DEAR SIR:—I am in receipt of yours of the 13th. I have taken some pains to keep posted on the state of things at Washington and from different sources, as well informed, perhaps, as anybody, I get advices which lead me to think "pressure" a bad thing. I have so far kept away designedly, and think it would have been better if others had done so. If anything turns up changing the looks I'll act at once. You evidently think as I do about it. Grant's little speech has different versions and the words you quote are not probably "verbatim copy." However, I have no misgivings. There will be dissatisfactions, of course, but I think nothing serious.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 58
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