Letters of General Joseph R. Hawley to Charles Dudley Warner, The Hartford Daily Times, February 15, 1930. A fortnight later and twenty-three years from the surrender of Fort Sumter, which lighted the flames of civil war and enlisted Hawley in that grueling conflict, he wrote again to his friend. Hawley was paying some attention to a proposal to offer his name for the presidential nomination. He was not carried away with the idea or its possibilities but felt bound to let things take their course. He had not attended the 1880 convention and intended to stay away from that of 1884, bearing in mind the insinuations that had been made against Garfield who was. in the earlier conventions as a delegate supporting John Sherman of Ohio and made the speech placing that gentleman in nomination, only to emerge from the convention as the party's candidate. Hawley did not want to be accused of any such tactics even for the sake of the presidency.

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