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very decidedly with many personal friends, and nearly all of the federal office holders hereabouts, and I don't want to feel in all the future that President Hayes had done me a wrong, by deceiving me in a little thing like that. Scarcely less do I like the prospect of believing that Mr. Seward sold me out, although parties were very anxious to prove to me that the reason I was not later appointed to Manchester was that the present incumbent "came down" with $600.00 which I had indignantly declined to do- or rather my friend had for me. I do not believe anything of that sort. Of course I am not foolish enough to think that it makes the slightest different to either President Hayes or Mr. Fred Seward- what I think of them, now or hereafter. There have been times where in my disappointment I could not have written