The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 28, July 1924 - April, 1925 Page: 239
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Bryan-Hayes Correspoondence
after their severe experience clung to Democracy. No matter how
pure, conservative & reliable a person might be South, unless he
was a Republican he could not get office from a Republican Ad-
ministration. It is true you advocated a different policy, & even
took a conservative Democrat into your Cabinet & induced the
people of the South to believe that you would appoint Democrats
to office.-But your party forced you to give way, but knowing
you as I do, & the circumstances surrounding you, I have ever
stood by you & defended you, for it was not your fault, but the
exigencies of the times. Yet, had you held out you would have
secured your election four years hence by the people of the States,
& secured in my opinion a triumph, greater than that ever be-
stowed by Romans upon those, who "stood by the State." I want
you as soon as you have leisure to write me.
Mr. Ogle of this city wants me to speak a good word for him.
He will be brought before you for appointment of Collector of
Customs of this port to succeed Pease, who he says has sent in
his resignation to take effect on 1st of January next.
Mr. Ogle is a Republican, has been such since the war, & re-
sided in Texas before the war. He is a Deacon in the Baptist
Church, & so far as I know is a correct man; he is not an edu-
cated man, but is a practical man of large common sense, & as
I know one of your earliest friends, when your name was talked
of first for nomination at Cincinnati. If you are going to appoint
no one out of your party, I think he would do as well as any one
I know in your party living here.
When I took on Hally to Hollins Institute, Roanoke Co., Va.,
to place her with her sister, on my return to Texas, I would have
called by to see you & family had you returned from the Pacific
Coast.
My girls are away from me which gives me pain; my bright
and good boy Guy (in a few days will be nine years of age) is
here; Willie is on the Brazos working with his own hands for a
support on a sugar farm of his Cousins. I long for the time
when I can be pecuniarily able to get them all together, & with
them spend my declining years. With best wishes to you, Mrs
Hayes & your family, I am
As ever sincerely
Guy M Bryan239
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