Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to John W. Glenn, January 15, 1870

COLUMBUS, January 15, 1870.

MY DEAR SIR: - I congratulate you very heartily on the result of the election in your State. Having some knowledge by reputation and otherwise of General Hamilton, Governor Pease, and Judge Bell, I felt some doubt when I last saw you as to the true condition of affairs in Texas. I was unwilling to think that those gentlemen intended to abandon the Republican Party. I regret their course. Your opinions and conduct have been fully vindicated by the issue, and I trust your services will secure you the honorable recognition which I am told your friends propose to give you.

Sincerely,

R. B. HAYES.

MR. JOHN W. GLENN,
        Washington, D. C.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 83

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, June 12, 1865

Sat an hour to Simmons for medallion. The President asked me if it would not be best under the circumstances, and as we had no word from Governor Pease, to continue Hamilton in the position of Governor of Texas for the mere purpose of organizing, etc. I acquiesced in most of his suggestions, though I told him my impressions of H. were not favorable.

SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 — December 31, 1866, p. 316