"Yours very truly,
"Wm. R. Martin."
STILSON HUTCHINS TO TILDEN
"Washington, March 18, 1881.
"Mr. Tilden,—The article which I wrote and published in the Post on the morning of the 4th of March, the day on which Mr. Hayes took his leave of his usurped office, you may not have seen, and hence I take the pains to cut it out and enclose it to you. I think few persons—not even your most intimate and immediate friends—have pursued the great fraud or denounced it with more consistency and pertinacity than myself. I have never forgotten for a moment, nor have I allowed an opportunity to pass, to remind the beneficiary or his supporters of the great wrong they have inflicted on the people and the country and the institutions which have endeared it to us. And yet, had you taken your seat, I do not suppose there was one of the four millions who worked for you who would have less to ask than myself.
"With great respect and great regret,
"Yours,
"Stilson Hutchins."
TILDEN TO HON. STILSON HUTCHINS
"15 Gramercy Park, New York, March 26, 1881.
"My dear Sir,—I had seen the article, a slip of which you have kindly sent me, and also another similar article of yours largely copied.
"You are entitled to great credit for your faithful vindication of the rights of the Democratic party, and the interests of the people in respect to the election of 1876.