MY DEAR SIR:—I think
we can now give the result of the struggle on the Fifteenth Amendment. The
subject is under debate in the Senate and ratification will carry when the vote
is reached—probably tomorrow. In the House of one hundred and twelve members we
reckon certain fifty-seven votes, fifty-three straight
Republicans and the Speaker (Mr. Cunningham), Mr. Bates, Mr. Hill, and Mr.
Kleinschmidt, Republican Reformers. These are all openly and decidedly now
with us on the main question, and on all questions likely
to affect our strength on the main question. Besides, we have the best chance
for the vote of Mr. Hambleton, Republican Reformer, and some chance
of getting two or three Democrats to dodge the vote.
Washington, D. C.
SOURCE: Charles
Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard
Hayes, Volume 3, p. 83
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