Whenever the vote of Ohio will be likely to assure the nomination of Garfield, I appeal to every delegate to vote for him.

I congratulate you with all my heart upon your nomination as President of the United States.

You have saved the Republican party and the country from a great peril, and assured the continued success of Republican principles.

I now propose to write a political letter in response to one from Chicago, which I believe will have a wider circulation than a campaign speech.

This question, however, is a very delicate one to discuss in popular assemblages, and I propose, therefore, in my speeches, to make only the faintest allusions to it, not surrendering, however, our views upon the subject, for upon this, I…

Still, you and your associates, leading men in the south, now enjoy benefits of political power derived from the atrocities of the Ku- Klux Klan, in which phrase I include all the numerous aliases by which it has, from time to time, been…

These crimes are all aimed at the civil political rights of Republicans in the south, and, as I believe, but for these agencies, the very state that you represent, as well as many other states in the south, would be represented, both in…

But for these crimes the boast attributed to you, that one hundred and thirty-eight solid southern votes would be cast for the Democratic ticket, would be but idle vaporing; but now we feel that it is a sober truth.

As you do not disclaim the language to which I called your attention, I have only to say that in using it you uttered what was absolutely false, and what you knew to be false.

I narrated the gross crimes of the Ku-Klux Klan and kindred associations to control the elections in the south, and the attempted bribery of an elector in Oregon.

The lapse of time has had a healing effect upon both sections, and it is to be hoped that hereafter parties will not be divided on sectional lines.

Indiana is now more thoroughly organized by our people than it has been for many years, and I believe that nothing can defeat us, except importations and purchases by the Democracy.

I have not known the Republicans of that state so confident in six years as they now are, and every available help should be given them to win the fight.

I have learned certainly that the Democrats intend to make a powerful raid upon Ohio, for the double purpose of beating us if they can, and specially in hopes that they may draw off our forces in Indiana.

I think our friends should push the business aspect of the campaign with greater vigor than they are doing, especially the tariff question which so deeply affects the interests of manufacturers and laborers.

The argument of the 'solid south' is well enough in its way, and ought not to be overlooked, but we should also press those questions which lie close to the homes and interests of our own people.

From my view of the canvass the strength of our position now is in the honesty and success of the administration.

The true policy is to rise above these narrow family divisions, and, without disparagement of any Republican, unite in the most active and zealous efforts against the common enemy.

I doubt, therefore, whether my appearance in New York would not tend to make divisions rather than to heal them, to do harm rather than good.

I am so earnestly desirous to succeed in the election that I would even forgo a self- defense to advance the cause.

I think also that the country wanted to rebuke the attempt of the Democrats to narrow the issue to the low level of personal abuse.

Assassination can no more be guarded against than death by lightning; and it is not best to worry about either.

I intend to answer them generally that, if elected, I would consider it the highest honor and I would then accept and serve.

I prefer to do precisely what you recommend, await the judgment of the general assembly of Ohio, unbiased by any expression of my wish in the matter referred to.

I worked hard that winter, for hard work, I thought, was the way to fortune.