The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 25, July 1921 - April, 1922 Page: 281
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BryanHayes Correspondence
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HAYES TO BRYAN
City Solicitor's Office,
Cincinnati, Sept 10th 1859.
Dear Guy
It is a long while since I have heard from you or written to
you. I have thought of you often as often as ever, and take as
great an interest as ever in you and yours. We are sorry not
to have seen you and your wife before you left for the South in
the Spring. This will not I hope be the last of you in Wash-
ington. I do not question your sincerity when you express dis-
gust with political life at Washington. No doubt its dark side
is dark enough; yet that ought not to drive from the public
service good men whose tastes opportunities and abilities point
[them] out as fitted for public station.
How is your wife? How are you living? Write me of all
your affairs; how is Stephen and your older brothers? Uncle
Birchard spent a good deal of the winter & Spring with me. He
often talks of you all. He has tolerable health now and does
not change rapidly. He has joined the Presbyterian Church
and is largely interested in church and religious matters. ie
is free from all sectarianism and bigotry, takes cheerful and
hopeful views of things and is as clear of all that is disagreeable
if I am not entirely a farmer I am half way between my farm and my
store, and have good chance to draw comparisons. Yes verily God made
the country, man made the town.
We are now on the eve of our harvest, with cheering prospects for
great abundance. The recent frosts of great severity checked vegetation
for a short time, but the weather being so favorable since nature has
bloomingly regained her losses. I hope our increase will only be but
the reflection of that in the South. Then wild wars deadly blasts may
blow. If gentle peace reigns at home our country will soon recover from
the disastrous blight of 1857.
Friend Rud still shares the honors of the political hand having been
only recently a prominent candidate for a seat on the Supreme Bench
of our State. His own apathy and another nigger issue threw him off.
Yet you can see how he stands at home. .
My Guy exhibits many traits of fine character, with daring reckless-
ness to keep alive the remembrance of his father's boyhood. His uncle
Guy has a large place in his memory.
Please let me hear from you and believe me as ever your friend
G. W. Jones
My Grandfather Col Johnston you may notice is chairman of the Board
of Visitors at West Point. It is his last effort from home. 87 years
give few travelling facilities.
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