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and natural routes are being resolved and talked about. If I
were in your place I do not know but I would do as you do but
it seems to me that with your influence, position and tenacity
of purpose you could accomplish very much for Texas and the
whole country as well as for your own permanent fame by taking
hold of this Rail Road. It seems to be the growing impression
everywhere that the Texas route to the Pacific is the best one.
And if Texas were to take hold of it energetically I do not doubt
that the general Government would ultimately carry it across the
Continent. With that Road through Texas she would rapidly
become one of the first if not the first of all the states in every
element of greatness. A man to get the proper lead in such an
enterprise would have to make it his one idea for a quarter of a
century, but success would be glory enough. I know nothing of
any particular scheme. Mr. Jones' talk may be nothing but gas.
The Texas Western R R may be a swindle as its predecessor was,
but if you have the true route some scheme ought and can be
made to succeed. Rusk and your other men so far as I know are
too old, or will be, long before such an enterprise can get fairly
on its feet, but Guy you could do it. You seem destined for
public service of some kind. Common political life you certainly
now know is nothing. Leave to others that field and be to Texas
more than Clinton was to New York; or rather what he was to
a State you can be to a Continent. All this sounds as if I was a
Rail Road maniac but I am not I assure you. I have merely
been reading an article or two on the subject, which I will send
you. Any particular scheme which is talked of up here I nat-
urally suspect to be a trap for gulls, but as I say the great idea
strikes me as feasible and grand.
As ever
R. B. Hayes16
6"The following is a letter from Douglass Case:
Cleveland March 15, 1856
Dear Guy
Your welcome letter dated at City of Austin Jany 24th was received
some weeks ago. I should have answered it before this time but was
rather unsettled & did not know just what to write to you. Last fall
I built a nice little cottage & moved into it the first of December. .
I was delighted to learn that you intended to visit Ohio in June & I
wanted to write that I was housekeeping & insist upon you and your
friend coming directly from the depot to my house when you come to214
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