Ansen S. Miller to Richard Yates

Patent Office

Washington DC Jany 6 1865

My Dear Friend Yates,

Yesterday we were made glad

by the announcement that you have received

the nomination for US Senator in the Union Caucus,

by a handsome majority over all competitors.

And I wrote you very hastily as the mail

for the West was closing.

To-day we are gladdened by the

telegraphic dispatch that you were yesterday

elected U.S.Senator by the General Afsembly

64 to 43 over Jas C Robinson.

Thank God for this long-expected

"Consummation most devoutly to be wished"!

Now my friend you have a grand opening

for a glorious National Career. Be true to

yourself and the friends who have stood

firmly and hopefully around you in this

ordeal. Your afsailants have been uncharitable

- have been cruel - but they have been harmlefs.

But your friends - oh blast not their high hopes!

My heart is full - Let no one reproach you

truthfully hereafter in a matter in

which your own dignity and the

highest honor of the great State of

Illinois is deeply concerned; But

pardon my solicitude - it may seem

intrusive - it is however unselfish.

Your friends here and Elsewhere

are deeply solicitous for your future.

I shall be here long enough to

receive a letter from you.-

Have you succeeded in getting the

pafses on "Illinois Central" and "Chicago

and St Louis R.R.s" - I am engaged in the

reform of our probate laws and

have spent much time & some money

for which I ask no compensation. -Have

had no favor of these roads although

I was active in furthering the improvements.

Hope you can get pafs - a year on Each.

Hoping to hear from you soon

I am as Ever

Your Most obt Servant

Ansen S. Miller

Hon Rich Yates.

Ansen S. Miller

Washington Jan. 6th 65

Congratulatory - wants

a letter -