The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 28, July 1924 - April, 1925 Page: 237
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Byran-Hayes Correspondence
or Bayard. I wrote you that Texas preferred these two; her votes
in Convention showed this.
In March next you go out of office, but for the Louisiana ap-
pointments your administration would be regarded by the South
as stainless, and in the White House she regards you and Mrs.
Hayes as wearing the white flower of a blameless life, sending
its fragrant oders all over the land.
My regret has been greater than you can know that my em-
barrassed pecuniary condition has prevented me from being at
Washington during the Congresses, helping in a quiet way bring-
ing you and Southern members closer together, so that they could
know and trust you. There is a peculiar atmosphere that sur-
rounds those in high authority, especially the President, that
cannot be dispersed by any one but true friends. With wisdom,
patriotism and judgment when confided in, [they] can open eyes
and ears, and enlighten minds of those in power, and such friends
are invaluable to the conscientious, just and patriotic ruler.
True, you have had Webb and Rogers, faithful, intelligent, de-
voted, but they were and are from your party and from the
North, having a bias perhaps insensible to themselves. I write
this now when nearly all has passed and when soon you like my-
self will be a private citizen. If you will permit me to suggest
for your good, let the residue of your administration show forth
in efforts the principles of the beginning of your administration
and the speech at Yale, whenever you can make the occasion to
do so. If I can make my arrangements to do so, I wish to visit
my daughter this summer. Yellow fever has appeared it is said
in N. O.
With sincere regards to Mrs. Hayes and your family I am, as
ever, your friend,
Guy M. Bryan
P. S. How did Kenyon affairs go off. I should like to have
been there with you and Jones. Give my love to "old Trow."
BRYAN TO HAYES
Brazoria County, Texas,
Dear Rud: August 18, 1880.
I came here directly after I received your letter, and I have
been by the bedside of my sick son Willie since. He has barely237
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