COLUMBUS, OHIO, December 6, 1869.
DEAR GENERAL: — I am just in receipt of your note of the third with an article from the Statesman annexed. The article had not attracted my attention, but of course I should not have publicly noticed it. There is not a word of truth in it so far as I am concerned. I have spent but two days in Washington since Grant's inauguration — yes, it was four or five days and took no part against you then or at any time. No assurance was needed that neither you nor your friends are responsible for this sort of insinuation; but I am glad to feel safe that such things can't sow tares between us.
Sincerely,
R. B. HAYES.
GENERAL HICKENLOOPER, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Private.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 76
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