E. CROSWELL TO TILDEN
"Albany, January 26, 1846.
"Dear Sir,—I am informed by a member of the Legislature, whose veracity I cannot question, that you stated to him that I had made a proposition in relation to a compromise of the questions of difference between the Argus and Atlas, which had been accepted by you or your friends, but which I had flown from or violated under the pretence of consulting my friends.
"Allow me to ask whether I am to understand you as having made such a declaration.
"Very respectfully,
"Yr. obt. servt.,
"E. Croswell."
TILDEN TO E. CROSWELL
"Albany, January 27, 1846.
"My dear Sir,—The inquiry which your favor of yesterday contains is so made up of statements and inferences—so very general in some respects, and so imperfect in others—that an answer to it which expresses neither more nor less than the truth must be more specific than you seem to ask.
"I understood from gentlemen whose veracity I could not question that on the Wednesday before the recent caucus you made to them a communication to this effect: