CHARLES O'CONOR TO TILDEN
"N. Y., Oct. 29, 1871.
"Dear Sir,—There are [no] Sundays in revolutionary times. So I am at work. The declinature is corrected and all ready. I am to have copies this afternoon for my intended constituents; it will be out in all the morning papers.
"But the greatest of the great productions of the day has just passed under my eager eyes. The speech of Frederick A. Conkling, a conspicuous Republican, is the true touchstone. Surely every honest heart in the land will be thrilled with patriotic emotion by its stirring tones.
"What do you say to this?
"Beginning to-night, let us print at once in the large octave called royal, on good paper, in large type, easily read and every way in good typography, my poor effort in the declinature and this glorious Conkling speech. Thus the views of Democrat and Republican may go side by side. It should be added that a member of the Legislature need not reside in the district that elects him. Every one don't know this. By making it known we might yet have, in the Legislature, not only yourself, but Seymour and Kernan and Minturn and others that I cannot now think of. Conkling, too, of course.
"Kernan would be a grand candidate for the Senate against Tweed or Norton.
"Yours truly,
O'Conor."
"P. S.—Conkling's speech was in Herald of 27th. I send it to you. Don't lose it. Speed and vigor for God's sake and the Republic's.
"Yours,
O'Conor."