The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 25, July 1921 - April, 1922 Page: 113
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The Bryan-Hayes Correspondence
can then also make his promised visit to Texas and spend the fall
and winter. Write to him on the subject and get his opinion. I
hope you will both conclude to go with me.
Arkansas, Red, White & Miss. rivers are all of them over their
banks, ruining crops, plantations and drowning cattle, &c.
In haste, your friend ever
Guy M Bryan
Rutherford B Hayes Esq
Student at Law Harvard College
Massachusetts
BRYAN TO HAYS
Wytheville Va July 1st 1844
Dear Rud
Your most warlike, threatening & anti Texas letter you have
ever written or I read came to hand yesterday, (or rathr I came
to hand, for it has been awaiting me some days). In it I do not
recognize the friend of my heart, the companion of my school days
and why? because he has turned Bully. Ye winds blow it and
hills echo it, that Hayes, Rud Hayes,' the plain strait forward
Hayes has forgot the old paths and in the plenitude of legal suc-
cess (for I understand he is reputed "to be the smartest young
man in the law school") and in the culmination of his genius, has
become a threatener, a bully. Listen to what he says, "If you treat
with her (England) on fair terms, conclude a treaty not unfairly
prejudicial to our rights, why God bless the little Republic. I
hope she will do it. But, if on the other hand the arrangement
with England is hostile to our interests and rights, why we shall
show you the difference between fighting Mexicans and fighting
Yankees, and if Britain interferes, with the help of France, I think
we would send the lion limping back to his haunts and as for 'the
lone Star' it will either veil its face or in future only 'ray out
darkness.' " I-ow constant you Whigs are. You say in the first
place annexation now, would violate your faith to Mexico, "would
be an act of injustice to Mexico." Grant that it would be to
Mexico all that you say it would, where does it bring you? To
this, that you compel Texas to remain a Nation, and yet you will
not permit her to make her own laws. Consistency is a jewel.
Texas is too weak to sustain an independent government. There113
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