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only second to AVashington^s. We shall probably 

 feel and thinh that they are not second even to bis." 



Fremont of course is justly proud of tlie name and 

 fame of Rutherford B. Hayes. Two years before he 

 returned to his home, after refusing Grant^s offer of 

 an Assistant Secretaryship, but the people of Ohio 

 were not satisfied with this. Their feelings were 

 probably voiced by the words of a personal friend 

 of Hayes, who said : " With your energies, talents, 

 education, and address, you are green — verdant as 

 grass — to stay in a country village.'' Soon after- 

 wards, at the urgent and repeated requests of the 

 people, he gave up his quiet life and once more entered 

 the political arena, with results which the election of 

 1876 shows. 



There were apparently many \vho were dissatisfied 

 with the Nation's choice, but in Ohio, and especially 

 where he was known personally, he was much beloved 

 and admired. His uncle, Sardis Birchard, who died 

 some years ago, leaving his property and fortune to his 

 namesake, has given a park and a fine library to Fre- 

 *mont. 



The town is on the Sandusky River, at the head of 

 navigation, and has quite a brisk trade for a plac«» 

 claiming only a little over five thousand inhabitants. 



Sutw-sii'tl) ©ag. 



Elmore House, 

 El MOKE, Ohio, 

 July Sixteenth. 



My accommodations at the Ball House, Fremont, 

 were quite in contrast with those placed at my dis- 



