WASHINGTON, January
19, 1867.
DEAR JUDGE:—I will
hand your letter about Shields' confirmation to our Senators with favorable
talk. As to the other, I get more letters on the other side, but have done
nothing more than to refer them to our Senators. Do you watch the movements
here? What do you think of them? Being myself on the radical side of all of
them, I may have lost my sense and would like to hear a cool outsider talk.
Yours,
R. B. HAYES.
HON. W. M. DICKSON, Cincinnati.
SOURCE: Charles
Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard
Hayes, Volume 3, p. 38
