The Writings of Carl Schurz/From Rutherford B. Hayes, February 27th, 1877

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FROM RUTHERFORD B. HAYES

Columbus, O., Feb. 27, 1877. 

I am very glad to get your note of yesterday. Your choice of Department is also my choice for you.

I should be delighted to have you go with us to W[ashington] if we are declared elected before we start. But I do not want my selection of Cabinet advisers known until that result is announced. I will despatch you as to train. In case of a favorable decision Wednesday, we start about noon Thursday. If no favorable decision is reached Wednesday, we do not start until in the night of Thursday. My idea is to leave undecided, or rather uncommitted, some places until I reach ​W.—say War, Navy and P. M.-General. I write in the midst of interruptions—provokingly so.

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